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| Author: | Tsahraf ChahsidMimetes [ August 17th, 2013, 3:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Power: Color Casters |
This is an idea of an alchemic power I thought of. Critique it, I pray you! You have, no doubt, heard of elemental powers: power over earth, air, fire, water. I never really liked this idea, though a lot of interesting ideas have sprung up around it. One thing that would be similar to elemental powers in Iniel would be color forces. In the color forces there are nine pure colors, which are usually put in this order: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, white, pink, black. A color caster would put them in a different order, based on their strength: green, yellow, blue, orange, purple, red, white, pink, black. A color caster is usually ranked in a class by what level of color he has gained a certain level of mastery with: Class 0 Black (the highest class) Class 1 Pink Class 2 White Class 3 Red Purple (two colors in the same class because they are equal in strength) Class 4 Orange Blue Class 5 Yellow Green Any hue between these colors is vastly less powerful. As a hue becomes closer to one of the pure colors it becomes exponentially more powerful. Absolute purity in any of the colors is hardly ever reached. The colors at the two ends of the visible light spectrum (red and purple, class 3) are exponentially more powerful than the colors of classes 4 and 5. Class 5 colors, yellow and green, behave like a mix of the two ends of the spectrum, which are red and purple. In other words, red and purple are the “purest” pure colors, being on the two extreme ends of the spectrum. White is a conjunction of all six pure colors in classes 3, 4, and 5, which are known as the “single” colors: red, purple, orange, blue, yellow, green. White has more power than any of the single colors acting alone. Pink is a conjunction of red and purple. Being a conjunction of only the purest colors of the six single colors it has far greater power than white. The six single colors, and the two conjunctions, have a threshold of how great their power can become through purification. But this is because there is a threshold to how pure they can become. They are all necessarily mixed with a certain amount of black, which is present in everything, between every star, and every atom. Black, however, can continue to become pure to infinity. The threshold of power for the black color has never been reached, and may not exist. It may continue to become exponentially more powerful as its purity increases infinitely, like numbers can increase infinitely. The form that pure colors are used in are not colored flames and sparkles or colored lightning or anything superfluous. It is in the form of colored powder, which is cast over something, from which comes the term “color caster.” The powder can also be breathed, or rubbed onto something, or various other applications. The powder is made from solid chemical elements (which are mostly silvery gray metals). The elements listed by abundance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth%27s_crust The metals are converted to the powders by alchemy, usually combined with grinding, cooling, heating, reverberation, or things to do with the spectrum of existences, which I mentioned briefly in my big introduction post, and will do a post about some time. I think the powers of the colors never vary from color to color, except in intensity. But they do vary from person to person, depending on their different areas of knowledge. One may have healing and destructive forces, another may have the ability to bless or blight crops, another may have the ability to pass through walls or disappear from one place and reappear in another place. Certain color casters learn to draw power from colored objects. It does not change the objects at all, any more than using a solar panel will affect the sun. This means they are more powerful in colorful places, like playgrounds and parades and market places. They also draw from the sky, when it is blue, or the clouds are white, or colorful at sunrise or sunset. Gray days obscure the colors. They cannot draw from darkness, because it is not an object that is colored dark, but rather, blue air, or green trees, or so on, whose colors cannot be seen. The color casters do not wear uniforms that are the colors of their class. If they chose clothes in order to draw power from them, it would vastly weaken them for a time, rather than empowering them. It is called “profaning the color.” This is the same with anything else they choose, their house, their car, their fence, if they choose its color in order to use it, it takes power instead of giving it. So whenever a color caster can choose the color of something, he chooses brown, or some other weak hue. Another way to avoid profaning the color is to choose any color, but never draw power from it. It is not as safe, as in an emergency one may accidentally try, and become useless at a critical moment. Another way to avoid it is to use the color powder itself to color the things. This is a separate area of skill, as it is very difficult to learn it to the point that it is any use at all. Even for a master it is extremely dangerous to and delicate work to create dyes, paints, or stained glass from the powder. But when it is mastered it is very useful. I found out that there is a festival in India called Holi the color festival, where they throw colored powder in the air and at each other. I made a Pinterest board about colored powder which has some other things to do with color casting, but mainly pictures of Holi. http://pinterest.com/tsahraf/colored-powder/ What do you think of this? What are your favorite things about it? Which parts would you want to know more about? Is any of it unclear? Do you have any suggestions? Does this remind you of anything? Brief suggestions or extensive in-line edits are wanted! Critique, I pray you! |
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| Author: | Kessie [ August 17th, 2013, 4:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Power: Color Casters |
This interests me as an artist. I like the idea of the different pigments having different types of powers. Now, you're talking colors of pigments, and therefore white shouldn't be on the list. White is the absence of color. Black is all colors combined. In light, it's the opposite--black is the absence and white is the presence of all. It's interesting that powers increase with color saturation. So the more grayed-down a color is, the weaker it is? But a grayed-down color is achieved by mixing it with its complement, i.e. red with green, blue with yellow. You want to establish your color theory rules very carefully when it comes to hue and saturation. Then there's the artistic movement to change the primary colors. Red, yellow and blue are the traditional primaries, but cyan, magenta and green are actually easier to paint with and mix other colors from. Colors that until now have been considered secondaries! Jim Gurney has an excellent blog series on this: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2010/ ... art-2.html If I were you, I'd structure the powers around the three primaries first, then the secondaries, and possibly tertiaries. You could have all kinds of powers for the various color groups. |
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| Author: | Tsahraf ChahsidMimetes [ August 18th, 2013, 8:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Power: Color Casters |
Thank you Kessie! You are the first person to comment! Yes, I do not think it is based on pigments, since an object can be colored white without any pigments. But then it may not be based on light, since an object can be colored black and not be giving off light, not to mention the fact that the entire spectrum that is not visible light has no power at all that I know of. I think it is rather based on the human eye. The eye can see white objects, so it counts, and the eye can see black objects, so it counts too. It is also rather based on the light spectrum, since it bases how powerful a color is on how far from the middle of the spectrum it is, and because it considers white a combination of color. I am not sure how it considers black; not as a single color, or as a conjunction, but not as an absence either, I do not think. I am actually not so sure whether gray days or dark nights would inhibit color casters, or how it does. Perhaps it makes it impossible to draw power from surrounding color, but powder users are not inhibited at all. But yes, when the color of an object is not saturated it is not any of the single colors, or white or black. So it falls between them. If you are an artist you might like the idea of my Order of Images. Basically if something is drawn or sculpted to look like something it has the "potential energy" of taking on aspects of that thing. So situations like Frankenstein or Pinocchio can happen. It would become rather interesting if a color caster made paint from the powder and painted a picture of a person. Here is a small Pinterest board I made for the Order of the Images: http://pinterest.com/tsahraf/of-the-order-of-the-images/ The painting of the boy has a strange story, whether or not it is true it is appropriate to the way images can be in the Otherworld. Thank you for the link to the blog! There is a lot of interesting stuff in the first glance. The comments have good information too. I think color casting would frustrate artists maybe, since the point of it is to avoid variety of hues, and is more a meditation and study of just the nine pure colors that they use, focusing mainly on the five most powerful, purple, red, white, pink, and black. |
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| Author: | Tsahraf ChahsidMimetes [ August 18th, 2013, 2:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Power: Color Casters |
I still do not know whether the colors have unique powers. Perhaps black is a wildcard that can have any of the power types when it is pure enough. Perhaps the other colors only become unique at all at near purity. If any of you have read Charles Williams’ The Greater Trumps, pure black color seems to me like the Fool of the greater Trumps. If the colors do have unique forces their different characteristics would probably be based on their physical properties rather than on cultural interpretations of the colors. Some interesting color interpretations I found out that China had, were that they look at red as a color of wealth and good fortune, black as a noble, or everyday color, and white sometimes as a color of death and grief (they wear white to funerals). |
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| Author: | Tsahraf ChahsidMimetes [ August 18th, 2013, 3:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Power: Color Casters |
Oy, I had a symbol, nine points in a square, and I did not know what it meant. Now I think it represents the nine pure colors. If the colors were used instead of the points they would be arranged this way: Purple___Pink_____Red, Blue_____Black____Orange, Green____White____Yellow. It is wonderful that they can fit together that way. I had originally thought of the symbol in connection with a story line of two dancers named Code and Key, who could occupy the same time and place. I could not figure out what the symbol would have to do with the story line. (Edit: I got the order switched in two spots, it is actually this order: Blue_____Pink____Orange, Purple___Black_____Red, Green____White____Yellow. The more powerful ones are in the middles of the sides, and the most powerful is in the center.) |
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| Author: | Tsahraf ChahsidMimetes [ December 4th, 2013, 8:25 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Power: Color Casters |
Alright, so I was world building, and I made up this school of thought about shapes, right? they say that the triangle is the first shape, and any shape with more than ten sides counts as a circle, which they also count as a shape with zero sides. So that is three sides, four sides, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten: that makes eight shapes, and then there is the circle... that makes nine shapes. There are nine shapes. Nine. Excuse me while I FREAK OUT! |
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