LumPlace
Lum is a supermassive white hole at the center of the Spherve, serving as IntEarth's sole source of light and matter. It ejects gases, materials, and even planetary-sized meteoric objects, contributing to frequent natural disasters on the inner surface. Lum also dims and brightens across Cycles, marking the passage of time for inhabitants.
Where it appears (63 mentions in 5 books)
Found Journal of a Traveler · 12 mentions Read the book →
- ¶4…he Spherve, a massive sphere of debris that surrounds a supermassive white hole known as "Lum". This enigmatic source of light and matter emits the gasses and materials of countless c…
- ¶8…ral disasters are frequent and include meteoric impacts of a planetary size (ejected from Lum), earthquakes that raise or level mountains in mere Lumends, sinkholes of tremendous dept…
- ¶9…standing from the Real Realm. At the summit, loose stones would tumble both upward toward Lum and downward toward the surface simultaneously, following spiraling trajectories that tra…
- ¶11…gon broke free and rolled upward with increasing speed, its magical cargo resonating with Lum's pull. We watched in fascination and horror as it reached the Null Zone - and simply cease…
- ¶12…e reciting cautionary rhymes about the dangers of climbing too high. On clear Wakes, when Lum's radiance dimmed to its gentlest phase, one could see the trapped objects glinting like a…
- ¶16…he suspended objects appeared to be moving, rotating slowly against the amber backdrop of Lum's eternal radiance.
- ¶17…formation roughly the size of a cargo chest, its faceted surfaces catching and refracting Lum's glow into prismatic displays that painted the mountain peaks below in shifting rainbow hu…
- ¶20One complete rotation, the crystallized figure's arms sweeping through Lum's amber radiance. Two rotations, and now detail that should have been impossible to observe from such distance…
- ¶22…o sound escaped them. Elder Thoss stood with both arms raised, palms facing upward toward Lum's amber glow, and the stones arranged in their careful pattern pulsed once, twice, then wen…
- ¶23From the crystal came a light that was not Lum's. It was cooler, the color of deep water in a cavern where no warmth has ever reached, and it moved outward from the suspended figure wit…
- ¶42…ereverse's surface as it swept upward beyond the Hanging Garden and the amber radiance of Lum.
Expos-Zeshin · 4 mentions Read the book →
- ¶18Expos: "Time moves strangely within these walls. I have seen Lum dim and brighten through countless Cycles, watched civilizations rise and crumble through the tower's highest windows.…
- ¶22…the pedestal, the sphere's visions still flickering behind their eyes like afterimages of Lum's brightness. The chamber itself seemed to breathe around them, walls expanding and contrac…
- ¶37…that implies a recently vacated presence or a long-anticipated arrival. The light of the Lum did not reach here, yet the chamber was not dark. The illumination came from within the o…
- ¶51…d more the cold of open distance, of expanses so vast that warmth has not yet found them. Lum's light, even refracted and ancient as it arrived here, did not touch the seam in the far w…
Authorian Paladin · 18 mentions Read the book →
- ¶25…ward across the vaulted world of Intearth itself, toward the mirrored lands above, and to Lum, the living light between. Others who had scorned the old ways fled in all directions, de…
- ¶27Look for the signs: when a shadow is cast upon Lum, when the waters freeze over, when forgotten things rise from the soil, and when the winds whisper of ancient names. All is not lost…
- ¶33…a miracle has to be astronomically impressive. So if the Author is real, have them darken Lum. Surely Lum is one of the ancients you speak of, and it is not returning it has been here…
- ¶35…s of the crowd spoke to an invisible audience, framing themselves in front with No. 2 and Lum behind.
- ¶36The Communication Network: *Users commenting about No. 2, Lum, etc.*
- ¶37Then the unthinkable happened. Lum itself darkened.
- ¶43…of the abandoned square, their fur standing on end as they stared upward at the darkened Lum. Their arms had fallen to their sides, the mocking expression wiped clean from their feat…
- ¶44…stood frozen like a statue carved from living doubt. The darkness above began to recede, Lum's light returning in gradual waves that cast shifting shadows across the empty merchant sta…
- ¶48…thor's pen writes what it will. The darkness serves its purpose, to demonstrate that even Lum itself bends to the will of the one who conceived this Spherve and all who dwell upon it.…
- ¶56…now carried an undertone of uncertainty that had not been present before the darkening of Lum. Several of the faithful who had remained in the square began to form a protective circle…
- ¶57…n to glow with a soft golden light that pulsed in rhythm with the returning brightness of Lum above. The formulas that had once governed trade routes and market flows now rearranged t…
- ¶60…tal and the whisper of gears that had waited millennia to turn. Whatever the darkening of Lum had awakened, it was not confined to the surface world alone.
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Sam · 12 mentions Read the book →
- ¶31…r own tracks. Sam thought on the fact that it was the perfect wake to start an adventure. Lum was bright in the sky and it looked like it would be a clear wake. The birds had begun th…
- ¶53…t the cat had a firm grip and held tight. The tempest retreated, leaving the sky blue and Lum shining. To Ed's surprise the old person began walking backwards and tripped on a large r…
- ¶71…gan to look around into the distance. There was a dark smog that surrounded them and made Lum look red.
- ¶86…Well I am Paradise folk my family tree goes back to the first settlers here, We came from Lum that's why we have six toes and finger on each limb."
- ¶91…ave been doing it ever since you arrived. In fact it's true that your ancestors came from Lum, In the witches castle I read a book about the arrival of people in a Stone vessel that c…
- ¶135…on, detecting something beyond human perception. The cat's golden eyes reflected not just Lum's light, but also the strange glow emanating from the wizard's symbols. For the first time…
- ¶142…their surfaces too uniform and too lustrous for ordinary rock. The largest of them caught Lum's light and threw it back in a way that stone does not, a faint metallic gleam beneath cycl…
- ¶145…ion of things that had been waiting underground for exactly this arrangement. They caught Lum's light the same way the scattered strones in the field did, that cold metallic gleam benea…
- ¶154…he blood pool, but something older and cooler, the smell of caverns that have never known Lum's light, of deep wet stone and the particular darkness that exists so far beneath the surfa…
- ¶173…spherical clusters above the remaining rows of unharvested crops, their plumage catching Lum's reddened light and throwing it back in colors that had no right to exist in a field that…
- ¶175…uthern boundary of Paradise County, the witch's castle resolved itself out of the haze of Lum's reddened afternoon light. It was not a tall structure, not the kind of castle built to be…
A Wizard's Journey · 17 mentions Read the book →
- ¶2…villages lived simple, contented lives. In one such village, on a Wake unlike any other, Lum burned brighter than it ever had before.
- ¶15…me. As the great shadow of the stasis-bound beast began to drift across the land, dimming Lum's glow in his region of the world, he knew which cow to choose.
- ¶61The boy said "of course I did what are ya deaf I said clear as Lum I took it fair and square"
- ¶284…d, he felt a strange pull, not downward toward the surface as expected, nor upward toward Lum, but something else entirely. The hide seemed to vibrate with an energy that made his fin…
- ¶287…his own body when climbing tall trees, the sensation of being drawn simultaneously toward Lum's light and toward the solid matter beneath his feet. The cow, it seemed, had possessed the…
- ¶296…ts shape, water bent like a branch, trembling at its highest point where the dual pull of Lum above and surface below competed for it in equal measure.
- ¶300…ving only ripples to mark their presence. He held the coalwood branch up to examine it in Lum's filtered light that streamed through the canopy above. The charred tip appeared unchanged…
- ¶316…lustered dwellings, his shoulders still bowed beneath an unspoken burden. Above them all, Lum's light filtered through a thin layer of clouds, casting everything in hues of amber and go…
- ¶321Back in the pasture, Egast remained beside the still form of the cow as Lum's light began to soften toward the approaching Leep. The other cattle maintained their vigil, forming an unbr…
- ¶325…formations ceased their spreading and held their patterns in silence, each facet catching Lum's amber light and scattering it in thin filaments across the grass. Egast sat motionless at…
- ¶327…the pale haze above Moondor, climbing until it was only a dark point against the glow of Lum, and then nothing at all.
- ¶329The Leep was not yet upon Moondor, but the quality of Lum's light had shifted to that particular amber that preceded dimming, long and horizontal and heavy with the patience of the worl…
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