The Neathbow

[TheVampire100]

I'm currently following the Neathbow storyline and I've found 4 of 7 colors. The only colors I miss are Gant, Violant and Viric.
So this thread is about theories what the hints of the Neathbow pages could mean. Please put your tips in spoilers and if you know the exact answer how to get a color make it clear before the spoiler so people who want to find it out on its own won't look into it.

here are my theories about how to get the colors.

Gant:
Since the page says "when all colors are eaten" it could mean that I get it when I got all other colors. Another location could be the Avid Horizon since it says that there are all colors gone and only gant remains. I have however no idea how to get it if it's located there. The Gant pole could get in a future update also a possible storylet towards it.

Violant:
The color of violence? It states that there has to be blood shed at a spired place. Chapel of Light has the well where you can give away your nightmares as long as you have the peckish quality (also known as cannibalism quality) AND you get wounded, so blood is shed. However this is very situational and maybe unlikely. You have to get over 50 terror, go back to london for your nightmares, you have to travel the whole way to the chapel without loosing the nightmares during your trip AND you need to eat at least one crew member before you can use the well. Another hint is, that a rare ink is used with this color at desperated places. So maybe I have to get litareture that is written with this ink? Or trade it with someone who has the ink?

Viric:
I look at this single and shot sentence all the time and think "What?!". Currently it does not make any sense to me. Shallow sleep could be a hint for nightmares again (you wake up because you are startled). Another location where sleep is an important thing is currently out of my mind. Maybe it has something to do with the eye of the sea but except it raises my terror like mad I cannot see how it interacts with me.

[king of thieves]

Not bad theories all things considered. I've managed to get all seven, but I won't spoil anything for you. (And I hope others respect this as well) But I am willing to provide a hint or two. The three you're looking for are... annoying to find without a guide.

Gant:
You're actually very close, but not in the way you think. Gant is the color that appears when everything else is eaten. The clue is in the last word. You were close in your Violant description, but for a completely different colour.

Violant
A rather annoying one. Violant is a colour of remembering. London, with it's eagle-eye on literiture, wouldn't have what you're looking for, so you'll have to sail out to find those that are a little more... liberal when it comes to trading books. and the utensils thereof. It's a rare event, I should mention. You won't just find Violant waiting for you in port. The timing has to be right.

Viric
By far the hardest to find on your own. Viric is associated with dreams. I'd suggest asking your good friend the magician about dreams. If you help him out on the first leg of his journey, you'll know the spot to find Viric. But you'll have to be patient. It takes multiple visits (and a rather annoying skill check) to get the item you desire.

[Bomoo]

I wish I didn't feel this was necessary to say, but I hope we'll all stay civilized and not post glaring spoilers for those of us (myself included) who want to find these colours on our own.

[king of thieves]

Agreed.

[bandanagirl98]

Im going to be honest here. I assumed i knew where gant was but evidently do not, so i just thought i was doing something wrong, like i had to activate the pages or something. my question then is what actually happens when you get the pages? will you go into a port, do a thing and it just says, here, you found a color? or is each its own convoluted randomized quest? also gant is the only color i had any ideas about, so if you guys could give some spoiler free tips about where to sort of begin, like which port is pertinent for the easiest one or something? this quest has just been constantly perplexing for me

[Sapphire Bullets]

The colours are represented in various items you'll be able to find throughout the world. Usually they're pretty rare, but look out for the words in the descriptions of the items. For a non-Sunless Sea example, in Fallen London (the game) there's "A list written in Gant"

Try mousing over items to see their weird descriptions, look out for things like "A bloom of red, yellow and cosmogene petals." (This example is completely made up.)

[YetiChow]

Originally posted by bandanagirl98:

Im going to be honest here. I assumed i knew where gant was but evidently do not, so i just thought i was doing something wrong, like i had to activate the pages or something. my question then is what actually happens when you get the pages? will you go into a port, do a thing and it just says, here, you found a color? or is each its own convoluted randomized quest? also gant is the only color i had any ideas about, so if you guys could give some spoiler free tips about where to sort of begin, like which port is pertinent for the easiest one or something? this quest has just been constantly perplexing for me

Sapphire Bullets has some great points, particularly about reading items' descriptions.

However, sometimes you don't need to read a description on an item itself -- sometimes, other stories will point you in the right direction. For example, there's an island bathed in light (you'll know it when you see it!) which offers up a new Ambition, and as part of that ambition, you can go to a different island which is bathed in light, and request they help you out with a small problem of fatal allergy to sunlight. They'll request a few very rare items, most of which are self-explanatory... and in particular, they'll need a source of Gant. So, by process of elimination, you can figure out which of those items is the Gant source, and use it for the Curator's quest instead. The good news is that it's farm-able, so you could easily* achieve both!

*well, if you can complete major story quests such as these, it's relatively easy to obtain a second of this item.

Also, you'll be glad to know that at least a couple of items helpfully include their colour in their very name, making it very easy to identify them as sources! One such item is pretty easy to figure out, but I'll give you this heads-up about it: when you get it, you'll actually get two different items which are both sources of the same colour, and I'd definitely suggest you keep the second for yourself and give the more obvious one to the Curator. The other one is particularly useful and valuable. It can actually be farmed, or plundered, but either way is risky; whereas the other source is no good to you. It is, at best, worth 100 echoes to someone else, while the other item is worth 800 at the University, or can be traded to (yet another) light-bathed port for a Captivating Treasure and several Outlandish Artifacts.

As far as I'm aware, there are at least two ways to aquire most of the items which can provide a colour, and there are no colours which have only a single route to obtain them (in other words, even where only one item works as a source of that colour it's possible to obtain that item multiple different ways.) Gant, by the way, is actually the easiest to obtain, with something like 5 different routes each using a different section of the gameplay (e.g. one is hunting, one is exploring, one can be found through officer quests), followed by Viric and Irrigo with at least 4 routes each, Apocyan which can be achieved three different ways, I believe Peligin has three routes as well but I'm not certain of that, and then Violant and Cosmogone can each be obtained one of two ways (both, incidentally, only have a single source-item. And both can be found, if you're really having trouble, by partaking of some Monkey Business far in the East.

Have fun on your scavenger hunt!

[bandanagirl98]

TYSM!!! this helps immensely.