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All the colours of the world

The most famous and most beloved piece of art in the entirety of Ceòthach Eilean is a painting; the last painting of the uiledaths' most celebrated artist: Chuathach. To the human eye, All the colours of the world is just a white cloth. Sometimes, to the most sensitive or gifted humans, it speaks. It gives them emotions of warmth, or uneasiness, pleasure, or guilt. Not that any human (save two) has ever set eyes on this masterpiece. To the uiledath it is a swirl of colour and emotion. Never the same, never having the same effect, this painting brings tears to the eyes, the deepest sorrows and joys, the most intense memories. Chuathach was said to have managed to even sneak a single drop of corcair in her painting, the colour of the mists that drive humans mad.   The story behind All the colours of the world is one of pain, sorrow and old shame. Chuathach's mother, an uiledath sailor, had been raped by a human at the port of Pont in Castaponda. Since rape is unheard of in the uiledath society, the news was received with shock, and it was even more worrisome that a few months after the incident, she gave birth to a seemingly healthy uiledath girl. It was unknown if the child's father was the human rapist or her uiledath bond-partner, but the couple raised the girl without ever telling anyone - apart from the island's leader - about the rape.   Chuathach looked like any other uiledath child. From a very young age she showed potential as a painter, and this became her dleas in life. However, she was tormented by nightmares, especially when the mists were near. She had often fits, visions, dreams and feelings not her own. She fell in love, had a bond-partner and a daughter of her own, but was always haunted by an obsession to be able to draw what she felt when the mists were near. Her last work, which became a legendary piece of art, was what her bond-partner found in her room that was directly above the sea, windows wide open, the paint still wet just as her own corpse was found in the waves. He knew that she was obsessed with being able to capture the corcair, but he did not know - and it haunted his life and the life of his daughter - whether Chuathach fell or jumped.

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