Adapted From The Sixth Color of Magic
It may seem odd to even apply a philosophy to a piece of the color pie that consists primarily of artificial beings. Could there be a personality to uncover within colorless? Colorless isn't merely a lack of color. Indeed, it has potential for robust motivations.
Colorless Devotion
Colorless Devotion involves enigmatic practices that occupy the space between other forms of devotion. A colorless devotee embraces one of three concepts: void, purpose, and transcendence.
The Colorless Void
To start, we will first talk about colorless in the context of a complete lack of any mana and what ideals are bred in the void. One of the strongest correlations between colorless and the color pie is that it is devoid of color. If we take any one of the five colors, it has a way of looking at humanity in which its members assert their ideals upon a world around them. Each color believes it understands what life means. With this in mind, perhaps being devoid of mana would result in the passive view of one's surroundings. In some ways, this might sound like Green's ideals, and yet Green will still enforce itself upon other colors. Remember, each color believes that its way is the only way. With this in mind, we can see that colorless sits within the space between thought, between philosophies and ideals. It is a passive observer, even if its actions are overt.
A void philosophy doesn't act in a way that enforces its ideals. It simply exists and acts as it does without any consideration of its meaning. It is unchanging, unfeeling, and timeless. It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death. Being colorless in that way could mean experiencing true inner peace, a way of being that transcends the marred mortal experience. We may not ever be devoid of motive, as our ideals always come through, but perhaps we can find that space between thoughts.
The Work is the Purpose
This aspect of colorless is bred from the machinations most found in this section of the color pie. While our previous version lies in the space between colors, this is what happens when the colors assert themselves upon the colorless, imprinting a motivation onto them.
Once again, we can see small similarities to the way green sees things, and yet it is once again a pure version of its ideals. While green believes that it has been put on this world for a reason, colorless does not even ponder the reason.
It merely is and does until the day it can no longer do so.
Colorless, in this fashion, invokes feelings of loneliness in our own hearts, and yet those words are not present in colorless. Creations who seem like they're from a time long forgotten, and yet their purpose remains. Colorless, with this as our lens, can then stand for concepts like reliability, consistency, and purpose. Colorless, in this version, is here to serve a single purpose, and to abandon that purpose is akin to the only true death.
In this way, we can see what effects touching each member of the color pie has on colorless.
White might create an artificial life to utilize a timeless guard or an unwavering judge.
Blue will craft machines that aid its research, creations that add to its efficiency.
Black will muster up colorless beings to take on tasks on their behalf preserving their effor to further their own ambitions.
Red will sometimes craft machines of chaos and violence.
Green is the one color missing from this, and yet we can still see a lot of its ideals bleed into this version of colorless, as green believes in a purpose bigger than all of us.
Transcending Devotion
This expression of colorlessness in no way devoid of color, and yet cannot be confined to the color devotions. As we know, there are many artificial beings and machinations who can produce any color of the color pie, which would mean they must in turn possess each color within them, and yet are not made up of any of its parts.
"It is everything." "And is nothing."
Color devotions represent the mortal understanding of the workings of the universe, and thus to transcend color devotion means that you will see past motivations and view each component as a blurring together of one whole.
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