Colours (not ways) of Magic

[Adeli]

First of all, I apologise profusely if this has already been answered, I ran a search and could not find what I was looking for.
For story reasons, I want a group of mages attired in the colours of their way. Here is my problem.

I have roughly figured out the colours of most of the ways, some being obvious, others obscure.

Crystal = White?
Dark = Black?
Blue = Blue
Red = Red
Brown = Brown

The major problem, what the hell colour is Azure supposed to be? Last I checked Azure was Blue?

So two of the ways are Blue? Personally, I\'d have named them all in the same convention. Why have some as colour names and others like Azure and Crystal? Why not White and instead of Azure, Green?

So, my questions are: What colour is Azure supposed to be in PlaneShift?
Also, if it is Blue, how do the two colours differ?
Any help would be much appreciated.

I apologise once more if this has been answered already, and I also apologise for the length of this post.
I look forward to your replies?

Edit: I realised many people had been spelling this wrong, and it was Azure on the PS site, not Azhure as many fans call it. This makes sense. But still we have two blues? I was originally asking what the hell Azhure was meant to be.

[Stydracos]

Its my understanding that Azure is a kind of midway between Blue and Cyan... not sure if this is correct but I always remember it as a sky blue (a light/bright blue).

[ArcaneFalcon]

Stydracos is  correct .

:emerald:

[Adeli]

If Azure is somewhat similar to cyan, what would the Blue be like? A deep blue?
Thankyou for your answers, my internet search confused me...

www.ask.com What is Azure?
noun: a light shade of blue
verb: color azure
adj: of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of a clear October sky

www.dictionary.com
A light purplish blue.
Heraldry. The color blue.
The blue sky.

It seems a contradiction to me... anyone else have anything to add?

I\'m in Australia, I don\'t know what a \"clear October sky\" in America looks like.

I have posted the first two installments of my story on the Roleplaying forum.
http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=10412&boardid=15&styleid=3&sid=ab719684e7d1e6af7db1a7edb5d5a923

Yet another edit, this thread has had so many just from me... I found a reference to the Lapis Lazuli stone being Azure... Here is said stone.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v470/Tyralus/bs19.jpg

[Stydracos]

http://noz.day-break.net/webcolor/azure.html

That may help... I don\'t know to me its just light blue or blue with some green in it and Blue is .... more blue :p with no green in it.

[Icefalcon]

How do we know that every spell cast from a certain Way  will all have the same color? Just a thought, but the Red way is the offensive, destructive Way. It could have a green, toxic gas spell. The brown way could have a green, treeish spell.

[druke]

its been my understanding that its not so much what each color is, as much as what it represents.

[Zeraph]

He needs to know what to color his mages to represent the different ways of magic so it matters in this case, however I agree...

[Stydracos]

Originally posted by Stydracos
http://noz.day-break.net/webcolor/azure.html

That may help... I don\'t know to me its just light blue or blue with some green in it and Blue is .... more blue :p with no green in it.

Just because I have a feeling there was confusion as to what some think I was talking about.  I was talking about the colour azure itself, not once was I talking about ps magic .

[Xalthar]

Red - Destruction, fire
Azure - Energy, electricity
Blue - Enchantments, water
Brown - Summoning, nature
Dark - \"Evil\", pestilence, death
Crystal - \"Good\", healing, life

That\'s pretty much it.. some representing different aspects of the elements, others taking on more \"human\" or \"organic\" values.

[Adeli]

Sorry if I seem rude, but was my thread title not clear?
Zeraph seems to be the only one who understands.
I do not mean a the spell effects, I do not mean the actual ways of arcane power. I am simply referring to the representative colours of each way.

My interest in this is purely for a story, and that\'s it.

Sorry if this seems like a flame of some sort.

Let me phrase it this way.
There are six mages, one in red, one in brown, one in white (crystal I decided), one in black (dark), one in blue, and one in blue-green? (azure)...

white
red
blue
brown
black
blue-green?

[Stydracos]

Originally posted by Adeli
The major problem, what the hell colour is Azure supposed to be? Last I checked Azure was Blue?

Well I attempted to answer this bit, basically you could just use azure in your story and let the reader conjure up their own image. If you need to describe further just remember it is a bright blue colour with a hint of green to it.

I can\'t be anyone plain then that.. I did get the question and was talking about the colour for the mages robes etc not their actual ways.

I agree on the colours you picked for the rest, crystal as white could fit or a spectrum of colours, like when a clear crystal refracts white light.... I\'d just go with white  though .

An alternative would be to allow some to have a pair of colours for the clothes... like for the red way could be red and yellow; Dark way could be deep purple and black; Brown could be brown and tan etc.

[Adeli]

I\'m sorry Stydracos, looking back I realised that you did in fact understand me, I hope you can accept my apology.
Before your reply came I ended up deciding to use \'azure\' in my story. As I posted the next part of it, and it mentioned a dermorian in an azure robe.
I thought of aquamarine, which I decided azure closely resembles, but it didn\'t flow as well story-wise.
Thankyou for your help.

Edit: That paired colours idea was interesting, perhaps I will use that someday, with your permission?
I think I\'d have trouble descibing a robe that was the color of the entire light spectrum refracted through a crystal...
Could someone direct me to a thread that they know of which has the descriptions of each way? My search turned up nothing useful.

[Moogie]

Adeli: A description of each Way can be found in the Character Creation screens of MB.


Btw- What does it matter that the colours are accurate or not? They probably arn\'t going to have colour themes ingame anyway. Let\'s just say Azure = light blue and be done with it.

[Stydracos]

No problem Adeli I was more worried that I was writing gibberish.

Of course you can use multi-coloured robes etc It was just a thought I thought you might like. There no doubt the idea was rooted in my mind from a television/game/book etc.

Yeah you are right about describing a crystal way robe, unless you say it bore all the colours of a rainbow (admittedly that sounds... well lame).

I didn\'t realise some of the story was done I might go off and have a read later.