Editing Iridos (section)

==Magic==

Spectrum Magic will also reveal a person's aura. The aura reveals many things concerning a subject. It will reveal their personality, their state of mental health, their state of physical health, their soul's health, whether the subject is mundane or otherwise, and it suggests their thematic affiliation.

-- by shanoxilt

====Chromatic Magic====

The Spectrum youth follow a path that is perpendicular to the other three. Color, variety and creativity characterize their newly-develping magics. They can create false illusions, yes. But they also can perform transformations like mud into porcelin or caterpillar into butterfly. 

The magic of the Spectrum youth is avant-garde and iconoclastic: diverse, flexible and middle-way in both power and strength compared to the Twin Cities/barbarian axis.

-- by Glyptodont

Color, variety and creativity characterize newly-develping Chromatic Magic. It can create false illusions, yes. But it also can perform transformations like mud into porcelin or caterpillar into butterfly.
Spectrum Magic will also reveal a person's aura. The aura reveals many things concerning a subject. It will reveal their personality, their state of mental health, their state of physical health, their soul's health, whether the subject is mundane or otherwise, and it suggests their thematic affiliation.

-- by shanoxilt

mantra: “perception changes”

spirit-world:  [[Spirit_world|Yingarna]]

tools: prisms, kaleidescopes

talent: Chromatic Magic (10 pts/level)

spells:
- ''identify exact color'' (IQ/Average)
- ''change color'' (IQ/Average)
- ''touch rainbow'' (IQ/Hard)
- ''see otherworldly colors'' (IQ/Hard, req. Chromatic Magic 1+)
- ''see auras'' (IQ/Hard, req. Chromatic Magic 1+) (note: allows diagnosis of physical, mental, spiritual, and magical health of a person)
- ''see past visible spectrum'' (IQ/Very Hard, req. Chromatic Magic 2+, at least one other chromatic spell)
- ''see many possible futures'' (IQ/Very Hard, req. Chromatic Magic 3+, at least three other chromatic spells)
- ''refract magic into colors'' (IQ/Hard, req. Chromatic Magic 2+) (note: changes magical attacks into harmless rainbows)
- ''cause natural metamorphosis'' (IQ/Very Hard, req. Chromatic Magic 4+, at least four other chromatic spells) (note: effects such as changing a caterpillar into a butterfly)
- ''cause unnatural metamorphosis'' (IQ/Very Hard, req. Chromatic Magic 5+, cause natural metamorphosis, at least five other chromatic spells) (note: effects such as changing a human into a butterfly)
- ''change color'' (IQ/Very Hard, req. Chromatic Magic 5+, cause unnatural metamorphosis)
note: using chromatic magic to enter the [[Spirit_world|spirit-world]] is generally fatal, as far as is known.

-- by Kakita Kojiro

====Magicians of Iridos====

'''Aura-Readers''', Auramancers of Iridos
Aura-readers, or “auramancers,” are skilled magicians who read the health of patients in Iridos by application of chromatic magic. When auramancers look at a person’s aura, they see the colors of his or her souls. The nuances in subtle shades of each of the seven souls reveals to the aura-reader their patient’s personality, physical health, mental health, magical health, and state of their other souls as well. With this information the aura-reader can holistically advise their patient what actions to take or to avoid so as to bring their souls’ colors back in balance. Auramancers are also capable of curing the effects of magic or spirits on their patients, although few citizens of Iridos are afflicted by such things. Because most inhabitants of Iridos are devotees of aura reading, they tend to be extremely healthy, although usually constrained by odd restrictions on their diet or behavior accordingly.

Advantages: Chromatic Magic 2 (20 pts)
Backgrounds: Doctor (social status 1, 5 pts), Comfortable (wealth, 10 pts)
Skills: Thaumatology (chromatic magic), Diagnosis, Esoteric Medicine, First Aid, Pharmacy
Spells: Identify Exact Color, See Auras, Refract Magic Into Colors

'''Halo-Readers''', Halomancers of Iridos
Halo-readers, or “halomancers,” are magicians who read the weather in Iridos by the use of chromatic magic. They watch the upper skies for halos, nimbuses, glories, rainbows, icebows, sun dogs, sun pillars, coronas, green flashes, and other atmospheric phenomena. All of these are predictors of the weather, and by identifying them the halomancers are able to determine what the weather will be. Iridos ships always have halo-readers on board, which enables them to avoid storms that catch other ships unawares.

Advantages: Chromatic Magic 1 (10 pts)
Backgrounds: Average (wealth, 0 pts)
Skills: Thaumatology (chromatic magic), Meteorology, Observation, Weather Sense
Spells: Identify Exact Color, See Otherworldly Colors

-- by Kakita Kojiro

====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