The Roll of Years
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Quae is the color of knowledge, memory, and learning. It's the sum of all that you've learned or experienced, allowing you to recall important details quickly and to focus on what matters. High Quae characters are well informed, well educated, and committed to finding the truth.
With Pfi, Quae manifests as the element of air and the season of autumn. As animals and plants fly through the sky, these colors provide the structures to propel them.
With Glei, Quae completes the mind or mental axis. Perception could be considered the source of all experience, and knowledge is the effect of that experience. Mysteries and secrets also hide within these colors.
With Vei, Quae advises or discovers, trading secrets or mentoring those who would listen to uncover mysteries.
Biz and Dau are the colors with the least relevance for Quae. Who has time for research or book-learning when survival is on the line? Strength and fortune have little to contribute to skill and self-realization.
Scholars or students might be good examples of Quae-based characters. They need to integrate analysis (Pfi) with intuition (Vei) to learn practical life lessons which are often at odds with their personal experience (Glei). Achieving mastery of such skills leave little room for chance or brute force methods (Biz+Dau), with the aim to reduce risk and uncertainty.
Marie Curie might be a good example of a Quae-based character. Noted for her extraordinary achievements in science, she used both intelligence (Pfi) and wisdom (Vei) to relentlessly pursue the truth. Eventually she was killed by the invisible threat of radiation (Glei), but not before shattering previous conceptions of the natural order (Biz+Dau).
Quae maps most closely to the classic color Blue:
Hex: 0000FF
RGB: (0, 0, 255)
HSV: (240, 100, 100)
Other associations:
- Voice / Breath
- Proof / Facts
- Secrets
- Language
- Abductive Reasoning
Ohm represents the absence of the other colors. Sometimes considered a color, other times a tone, it defies definition. Classically associated with the primes of Death, Order, and Good, it could just as easily apply to Life, Chaos, and Evil. It is said that all things begin as Ohm before showing their true colors.
When paired with any other single color, Ohm brings out the essence of that color. As a result, mono-colored Ohm cards are stronger than other cards, but lack the versatility of multi-colored cards. Ohm can also appear alone.
Few keywords naturally fit within Ohm, as the absence of other colors strongly implies that Ohm cards do not exist or have no effects. Thus, concepts such as the Void or the Basic keyword often fall to Ohm.
Ohm maps most closely to the classic color Gray:
Hex: 808080
RGB: (128, 128, 128)
HSV: (0, 0, 49)
Other associations:
- Light / Darkness
- Mirrors
- Concealment / Hidden
- Exile
The people of the Industrial Kingdoms observe the lunar caldenar, consisting of 364 days in a year. Each of its twelve months is divided into exactly 28 days with each week corresponding to a phase of the moon. The remaining days are divded between four week-long festivals held at the beginning of each season. Holidays are usually celebrated in or around these festivals. Finally, the coming year is given a special name on All Saints Day, usually to honour a saint, but sometimes it carries a different significance.