"I only know a bit, but there are other colour mages here," he answers, coming to sit and watch Eliot. "If not mages, the books were brought here from that Jaunt. From what I can tell, each colour represents a vice or emotion as well as a range of themes for magic. The one I use is Violet, which is illusory, ambiguity, but also vanity and royalty. From what I gathered, it's a lot about deception and disguising, hiding in plain sight, but also unveiling and understanding arcane knowledge. Blue magic is more elemental, with power of water, air, lightning, but it also has to do with sorrow and grief, so I'm pretty sure you could work a spell playing on those emotions somehow. Green is nature, healing magic, youthfulness, and envy... and life, which I know you can manipulate for some basic necromancy."

Squinting in memory, he continues, "Then there's Yellow which is light, wealth, jealousy, all those good things. Red is fire, anger, war, blood, passion, which then leaves us with... Indigo, Rose and Orange. I those ones are a bit harder for me to remember, I think partly because they seem to be mixed, almost? I know Orange had to do with mischief, Rose with love, and Indigo was... wisdom? I think? I don't know, I could ask Ambrose to help me track down the books, if you wanted to study them properly."