Diptych
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2/20/2014
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Blame Newton for that - he had a thing about sevens, when sixes are a much more useful number for dividing up things like professions. Six is divisible by two and three! What's seven divisible by? Nothing! It's rubbish. ...sorry, got a bit distracted there. Anyhow, no doubt there are all manner of variations on the Neathy colours in between the ones named. My working hypothesis is that the spectrum we've seen so far looks a little like this:
Violant - Irrigo - Apocyanic - Pelegin - Viric - Cosmogone - Gant
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IHNIWTR
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2/20/2014
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Master Polarimini wrote:
If viric is indeed a color, it breaks the nice symmetry with the Tier 4 profession however...
unless there's a hidden tier 4 profession no one's discovered yet...
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Helen Demeter
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2/24/2014
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IHNIWTR wrote:
Master Polarimini wrote:
If viric is indeed a color, it breaks the nice symmetry with the Tier 4 profession however...
unless there's a hidden tier 4 profession no one's discovered yet...
Connected with Paramount Presence, maybe? From my understanding no one has gotten that one yet despite having 200 in all their stats and building up their Master Thief, Fearsome Duelist and other notable achievements.
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Master Polarimini
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2/24/2014
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I would think that the 200 Stats special POSI statuses will play a role in those "more rarefied roles" that are still unavailable and that will probably form the fifth profession tier, more than opening other tier 4 professions...
Perhaps there are two sets of 6 neath colors?
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Snowskeeper
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2/24/2014
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Six is a hateful number. If one doesn't plan to devote oneself to it entirely, it is best to avoid it.
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varinn
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2/24/2014
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I always assumed the linking of the neath spectrum to the tier 4 professions was just a fun way to get that lore to players while also showing how abnormal what you're doing has become, so I doubt the fact that a color had to be left out is SUPER significant.
Viric is an interesting mystery, now, though, since it lacks any thematic connection to anywhere or any group yet.
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Chris Gardiner
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2/25/2014
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Master Polarimini wrote:
Perhaps there are two sets of 6 neath colors?
Believe me, the last thing this game needs is another set of fictional colours for me to spell wrong.
edited by Chris Gardiner on 2/25/2014
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Vefessh
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2/28/2014
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Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
My working hypothesis is that the spectrum we've seen so far looks a little like this:
Violant - Irrigo - Apocyanic - Pelegin - Viric - Cosmogone - Gant
Where does Incarnadine ("the colour of a fresh wound") fit in there?
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Pyrodinium
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2/28/2014
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Vefessh wrote:
Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook wrote:
My working hypothesis is that the spectrum we've seen so far looks a little like this:
Violant - Irrigo - Apocyanic - Pelegin - Viric - Cosmogone - Gant
Where does Incarnadine ("the colour of a fresh wound") fit in there?
Unfortunately that is a Surface colour that is synonymous to crimson.
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Vefessh
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2/28/2014
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It is? I had no idea!
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Flipz
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2/28/2014
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Vefessh wrote:
It is? I had no idea!
I have that reaction to a lot of stuff I see in Fallen London. Promptly followed by either "that's so cool!" or "that's...somewhat disturbing." Or both. :P
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IHNIWTR
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3/1/2014
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Master Polarimini wrote:
I received as a gift for the Feast the Explosion of Neath-Colours, and there's an interesting sentence in its description... it says "a crest of sleepy, frondular viric". Because it is in the context of listing the various colours appearing in the fireworks (it mentions also the "searing violant", a "winking irrigo" and a "thirsty, fathomless gant", could it be that it's a colour that it was not mentioned up to now?
viric is a light that is linked with sleep
"the light at the edge of sleep was mine"
viric is the seventh color
viric is the color of Mr. Eaten
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IHNIWTR
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3/1/2014
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DROPPING SOME TRUTH BOMBS IN THIS THREAD #FACTS
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Master Polarimini
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3/1/2014
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IHNIWTR wrote:
Master Polarimini wrote:
I received as a gift for the Feast the Explosion of Neath-Colours, and there's an interesting sentence in its description... it says "a crest of sleepy, frondular viric". Because it is in the context of listing the various colours appearing in the fireworks (it mentions also the "searing violant", a "winking irrigo" and a "thirsty, fathomless gant", could it be that it's a colour that it was not mentioned up to now?
viric is a light that is linked with sleep
"the light at the edge of sleep was mine"
viric is the seventh color
viric is the color of Mr. Eaten
where does this come from? just random thoughts or from game trivia?
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IHNIWTR
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3/1/2014
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it literally came to me in a dream
and when I woke up I said "I gotta post this before I forget"
then I posted it, still half-asleep
mad dream prophecies
EDIT: that quote is from the game though
edited by IHNIWTR on 3/1/2014
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Rook Crofton
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3/1/2014
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IHNIWTR wrote:
viric is a light that is linked with sleep
"the light at the edge of sleep was mine"
viric is the seventh color
viric is the color of Mr. Eaten
Interesting! But might it be a sleepy colour because it is associated with the jungles of Parabola? Cosmogone is also a Parabolan colour... Mightn't Mr Eaten be more associated with the colour Gant (which appears when others are devoured)?
Oh! But your idea makes me think:
[spoiler] Parabola contains that which is unreal... and Mr. Eaten a) calls seekers through dreams, and b) is eaten (and therefore unreal?). Is there a connection between Mr. Eaten and Parabola? Might he have a deal with the things behind the mirrors, or is he a poacher? [/spoiler]
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Valerien
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3/1/2014
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On the connection between Eaten and Parabola
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The Northbound Parliamentarian mentions that the Name was taken and hidden behind a black mirror. The Fingerkings are associated with mirrors of black glass.
A treasure from the Expeditions mentions that Parabola's inhabitants are the antithesis of the Judgments and that dreams thrive in the Neath where the Judgments cannot see. One of the Hallowmas Destinies mentions the honey-roads between dreams and Parabola, and Wines' and Spices' quarrel over them after "their colleague was cast down". Dreams were Candles' domain.
The storylet where the Fidgeting Writer dreams about the God-Eaters gives Touched by Fingerwork. It's implied elsewhere that they made a deal of sorts with the Fingerkings to become what they are.
Probably irrelevant: The Mirror-Marches, a Nightmare menace area, is an outlying area of Parabola. Mr Eaten has 999 Watchful.
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Flipz
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3/1/2014
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IHNIWTR wrote:
it literally came to me in a dream
and when I woke up I said "I gotta post this before I forget"
then I posted it, still half-asleep
mad dream prophecies
EDIT: that quote is from the game though
edited by IHNIWTR on 3/1/2014
Oh my god, we had the same dream last night, didn't we? O_O
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IHNIWTR
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3/2/2014
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXLDv-fUINM
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Pyrodinium
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3/14/2014
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The new storylet about the Somnolent Hyena might shed some light about viric (or is it virric?). It seems to be associated with another place and the creature that carries it is associated with sleeping and nightmares. IHNIWTR, I think whoever was speaking in your dreams might be on to something.
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