Shades of Grey

Interview with Altor Sylhallis

What the color black mean to you?

You sit accross a man, with pale white skin and hair that looks to be a dying flame. His eyes are sharp and his face initially hard and defensive when you approached him, but it quickly softened as you explained your reasoning for disturbing him.
I mean, do you mean me, specifically, or just in general?
I personally think of black as a rather odd color. It's everything and nothing at the same time, and it looks so cold but when you touch black things, they're usually warm. It's a confusing and contradictory color, to say the least.
He glances as a figure beside him whom you spoke to earlier. Their black hood can't hide the chuckle that escapes them. He joins in.
Honestly, black pretty much means the same thing to us, regardless of culture or locale - it's noble rankings that seem to switch things up the most. Black can mean a lot of things to us - dark magic, assassins, nighttime, Luna, Ynix, demons... a whole bunch of stuff. The nobility is where things get messy though, as far as I can tell.
They seem to see black as some sort of curse. They focus on the negatives like demons and assassins instead of good things, like Luna and Ynix. So they try to stamp us out of existence, because if dark magic is black, then it must be bad, according to them. Nevermind that we can literally save lives and some of us can make something completely new from something broken - instead of fixing a sword, making a new, better sword. Show me a light sorcerer that can do that.
His smile fades to something sad and cold, a stark contrast to his hair.
One thing everyone can agree on? Black means Night Angels. The nobles hate that. The rest of us can't help but hope one day we'll be worthy of their help.

Altor Sylhallis by Ynix