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<blockquote data-quote="Alaxk Knight of Galt" data-source="post: 6025167" data-attributes="member: 4129">So, I'm kind of using the Weatherlight Saga as my frame of reference.&nbsp; If you look at that you see some characters completely change colors (Crovax clearly goes from White to Black, Ertai goes from Blue to Blue Black (and White oddly), and you can argue that Volrath changed colors as well when he became the ruler of Rath.&nbsp; All of these are significant character events: Crovax fell under a curse, Ertai was abandoned in Rath and Compleated, Volrath failed a tribal right of passage and was exiled.So I agree with you that changing colors is important.&nbsp; And I agree with you that color change should be story related.&nbsp; But I don't think you radically change your views on life at the drop of a hat.&nbsp; If you go from respecting life and order to valuing might makes right and chaos, you've gone from Red to White, you've not added Red to White.&nbsp; However, I kind of took the point of view that color alignment was Exclusive not Inclusive.&nbsp; You got along well with allied colors (White functions well with Green and Blue) and you can even dabble in an allied color's toolbox for a cost (you don't normally produce allied mana, so you've got to find an external source of it to power their effects), but I like the simplicity of a simple you are X color.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alaxk Knight of Galt, post: 6025167, member: 4129"] So, I'm kind of using the Weatherlight Saga as my frame of reference. If you look at that you see some characters completely change colors (Crovax clearly goes from White to Black, Ertai goes from Blue to Blue Black (and White oddly), and you can argue that Volrath changed colors as well when he became the ruler of Rath. All of these are significant character events: Crovax fell under a curse, Ertai was abandoned in Rath and Compleated, Volrath failed a tribal right of passage and was exiled. So I agree with you that changing colors is important. And I agree with you that color change should be story related. But I don't think you radically change your views on life at the drop of a hat. If you go from respecting life and order to valuing might makes right and chaos, you've gone from Red to White, you've not added Red to White. However, I kind of took the point of view that color alignment was Exclusive not Inclusive. You got along well with allied colors (White functions well with Green and Blue) and you can even dabble in an allied color's toolbox for a cost (you don't normally produce allied mana, so you've got to find an external source of it to power their effects), but I like the simplicity of a simple you are X color. [/QUOTE]

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