Silent Symphony

The Fourth Note

 

This note is split into two:
 - The shorthand of what is accomplished
 - The reasoning and affect of this change

In Short, I thought of the 4th colour ("tone") for Silent Symphony

If black is the alcumination of all colour until it is indistinguishable
and white is the absense of any colour (and brown is the primary colours together)

Then the only remaining colours would be: Gold, Silver and Grey

I think the best option is silver:
Silver combined with yellow can create Gold, 
with red creates crimson
with blue creates neon 

It naturally falls into the group without upsetting the balance
You could argue that silver is essentially a fancy grey (like gold is a fancy yellow)
so the fourth colour could be grey, and the same "illuminant" that would have been used
to trigger silver, would be grey instead


I think Silver would be better, and below I go into detail as to why:

A separate spell could upgrade all the other spells (to silver - from grey, crimson, gold and
neon)
However, Silver from the beginning sounds more interesting and is more "appealing"
The silver illuminant can be super rare, a single circle in the middle of the main 3
Meaning you can only hold one charge, and you need to save it

having a super rare hard to save "grey" power doesn't sound as cool, and needing an
upgrade from grey to silver, makes it even harder

It's also possible to have it charge much faster than the other 3 illuminant, but still
at the cost of only holding a max of one charge at a time

if:
Yellow: kinetic energy
Red: heat energy
Blue: cold/negative energy - condensation, the cold pulls water out of the atmosphere
Silver: raw energy (lightning, plasma)

theoretically:
Orange: kinetic + heat = vibration? (or extreme heat)
Green: kinetic + negative = dunno, but going with wood/life
Purple: heat + cold = friction - storm
	other purple possibilities; gravity, slow/time, chaos

But a more simplified option:
Orange = vibration, weakens structures, loosens materials, triggers events
Green = accellerated growth, causes plants to grow triggering varied responses
Purple = cyclone, creates a wall of wind that has varied affects on different matter

Gold	= Creates a ball of pure light that can be further manipulated by yellow
	The light produced will reflect off of surfaces or be manipulated by crystal
Crimson	= Creates a source of extreme heat 
	The heat will evaporate, melt or burn anything in range (ignited torches)
Neon	= Creates a field of condensation, attracting water and forming a damp mist
	The mist will create an ice patch, and even an ice slick if done while moving

Silver	= will create raw energy that will activate magic items and machines



Since silver is different to the other 3, it charges differently too

Yellow charges with physical sounds, like scraping, collisions, footsteps
Red charges from the sound of energy, like wind, vibration, vocals and animal cries
Blue charges from fluid sounds, like running water, splashing, rain

Some maybe create mixes, like rain can be green (yellow + blue) or show yellow and blue	
	together

Rustling leaves would be yellow and red

waves/ripples in the water would be red and blue

Silver however, can be charged by magical achievements and special abilities
Or (in addition) by the ambient energy of each. Every 3 illuminant you charge 
regardless of which, gives you Silver, or when you have at least one of each, 
you get one silver (or specifically finish charging one of each, since the last time 
you had a silver charge)

So far, the free light, free burn and MS buff you can get from the silver upgrades
might not be enough to justify such a rare power, but we'll have to test it out
As the game takes shapes, we may find a need for something more
to which we can play with the silver abilities to fill those gaps
but we still have spells to play with too