Category: Optics with feelings

The list below is believed complete, though membership — like everything here — is subject to revision.

Caelum recusat — The Aetheric Concord's motto, “the heavens decline” — adapted from Unlonn's epitaph, which the Concord did not look up.
Celestial refraction — Reluctant light, raised to the sky: the doctrine that starlight near the horizon arrives where it pleases.
Lumen recusat — Unlonn's Latin motto, “the light declines.”
Reluctant light — Discredited 19th-century doctrine that light arrives where it pleases.
Lucian Sheen — The self-styled 'contrary advocate' who insisted he was a man of the globe and, across twenty years, only ever argued the plane.