The Influence of Color on Magic

Color magic is quite pervasive in the Runiverse, with entire cities, philosophies, and cultures built upon it. Indeed, various factions have organized around color magic, and wear colored hats to signify their allegiance.

Six primary color factions dominate, Red, Orange (commonly referred to as Brown), Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple. Beyond these, there exists the elusive and detached White Hats, accompanied by murmurs of an even more secretive eighth faction, the blackened Shadow Hats. Each faction wields its color's magic to shape their way of art, as outlined below:

Red Magic

Red Magic represents a cosmopolitan and elite form of magic, primarily aimed at amassing material wealth, financial prosperity, and political influence. The heart of Red Magic beats in the Red Wizard Capital, the financial nucleus of the Runiverse. While practitioners of Red Magic may sometimes be considered greedy and wealth obsessed, they possess the unique capability to achieve significant acts of virtue and altruism by leveraging their considerable financial might. Red Magic is perhaps the most material and least spiritual of all, and its practicality is only surpassed by Orange Magic.

Orange Magic

Orange Magic is used by the rugged, provincial Brown Hats in the northern farmlands of the Brown Hat Delta. The most practical form magic of all is often used for farming, hunting, and the domestic tasks of rural life. Unchanged through the ages, Orange Magic is a bastion of reliability and is loved by a community deeply rooted in stability and ancestral customs.

Yellow Magic

Yellow magic, a formidable arcane art that bends the very fabric of time, is haphazardly wielded by the Yellow Hat Wizards of Chronomancer's Riviera. The manipulation of temporal reality, considered by many in the Runiverse to be a reckless endeavor, carries implications that stir widespread concern. Yet, this apprehension appears to be of little consequence to the magic users of the Riviera. Indifferent to the seeming dangers of distorting time, they harness Yellow Magic for the pursuit of eternal youth and to indulge in endless nocturnal festivities. The Riviera, after all, is renowned as a nexus of pleasure and leisure, where time itself is yet another element to be orchestrated in service of ceaseless jubilation.

Green Magic

The magic of the natural world, Green Magic is used to speak to animals, to grow trees and flowers, and to harmonize with the earth itself. It is perhaps the oldest magic in the Runiverse and represents a symbiotic relationship between the mystical and natural world. This Arcane Art is cultivated by the Green Hats of the equatorial jungles, and is revered for its capacity to rejuvenate the forests, protect its creatures, and sustain a natural, harmonious order. Not only are Green Magic users great stewards of the natural world, but have achieved a a spiritual understanding in the interconnectedness of all living beings, an enlightened status not seen in other colors of magic.

Blue Magic

Blue Magic is the beacon of knowledge, intellect, and scholarly pursuit, honed by the sagacious wizards of the Blue Bastion. With vast libraries filled with esoteric documentation, Blue Magic is arguably the most documented of the arcane arts. With this rigorous approach, Blue Magic is more closely aligned with science, technology, and alchemy than any other color. The unorthodox task of imbuing machines withe magic is common practice of the Blue Hats, though it is not always met with success. Ever finding new ways to add predictability and empiricism to magic, the ultimate goal of the Blue Hats is the discovery of a grand magic/science unification theory.

Purple Magic

An enigmatic, boundless, and chaotic form of magic, Purple is the most uncontrollable and unpredictable color known. The Purple Hat adepts wrestle a maelstrom of cosmic energies with tenuous grip. They summon raw, unbridled forces of creation and annihilation, weave spells warping the fabric of reality, and invoke entities from dimensions beyond comprehension. The practice of Purple Magic is notorious for its psychological toll, often blurring the line between genius and madness. This has perpetuated the archetype of the eccentric Purple Hat wizard, a figure both feared and revered for their intimate dance with insanity. In the realm of Purple Magic, the boundary between controller and controlled is broken; it is a domain where the raw, primordial essence of magic reigns supreme. Practitioners who dedicate themselves to its study find that they are not so much wielding magic, as they are being reshaped by it, becoming conduits for forces that transcend mortal understanding.

White Magic

White Magic, in its sublime essence, is the zenith of order and clarity within the chromatic spectrum, embodying the serene and unadorned principles of the esoteric aesthete. A harmonious convergence of all hues, distilling their vibrancy into the purity of a blinding white void. Unlike its chromatic counterparts, which manifest through tangible acts and vivid displays, White Magic reveals itself as an ethereal whisper, a silent force that brings order to the cosmos.

The White Hats sequester themselves high in the White Tower, meditating in quiet stillness upon a single beam of holy achromatic light. Their magic is the underlying oneness of all things, a reminder that within the heart of complexity lies a simple truth, radiant as pure white light. The adepts of White Magic serve as the silent guardians of this truth, their presence felt not in the clamor of the visible, but in the quiet spaces where all becomes one, and the purity of nothingness speaks louder than words.

Black Magic

Before the beginning, and after the end, there is only darkness. The black expanse stretches endlessly through the cosmos, and although there are occasional, feeble glimmers of light, they are but brief interruptions in the overwhelming void that consumes all. Blackness sprawls infinitely across the cosmos, and though tiny glimmers of light twinkle feebly here and there, the total void swallows all. The dominion of Black Magic is such that no force within the universe can impose true order upon it; all light yields to its cold embrace. The power of Black Magic is unimaginable that its practice is forbidden. This prohibition is due not so much to the peril of harnessing such great power, but in the total loss of identity by those who seek to control it. It is believed that the Shadow Hats, rumored to dwell within the Quantum Shadow itself, are the elusive custodians of this primordial darkness.