Editing Iridos (section)

====Auras and the Colors of Souls====

The philosophers of Iridos have proved that humans have seven souls, each of a different color. This is demonstrated each time a criminal is sentenced to death by prism, when his soul is refracted into seven colors, which are recovered for use. The seven souls are as follow (“lower souls” are toward the red end of the spectrum, “higher souls” toward the violet end):

red – soul that gives you desires

orange – soul that keeps you alive

yellow – soul that gives you a self (personality, ego)

green – soul that integrates your other souls

blue – soul that allows you to think (sentience, id)

indigo – soul that gives you a reflection and shadow

violet – soul that interacts with the spirit-world

When an adept of chromatic magic looks at a person’s aura, they see the colors of his or her souls. It is the nuances in subtle shades of these colors that allow a chromatic adept to learn about that person. The exact tincture of the orange soul reveals a person’s health. The exact tincture of the indigo soul reveals whether the person is under the effects of magic. The exact tincture of the violet soul reveals what type of magic, if any, the person practices. Undead seem to lose their higher and lower souls, as all merge into one soul of utter black.

Beings of [[Spirit_world|Yingarna]] may not have all of these souls – or they may have other souls of colors that would be unnatural in humans. Infrared souls that may allow life to be created or restored. Ultraviolet souls that may allow interaction with higher planes of existence.

Chromatic adepts make use of specters that are solitary souls of one color, whether they originate as facets refracted off a human soul, or spirit entities captured in the wild.

-- by Kakita Kojiro