Eye color magic

[Mailliw73 he/him]

What do you guys think about a magic system based on eye color? This is a very rough idea right now. For example, blue eyes would control water, but different shades would control different things. Light blue eyes would be able to freeze water, bright, vibrant blue would be able to manipulate water telekinetically, etc. the rarer the eye color, the rarer and more valuable the power. I'm thinking there might be a kind of dark eyes/light eyes thing going on from TWoK where brown eyes have no power or a very limited, weak power, and colorful eyes have more important ones. Also, there would be combination stuff. For instance, if blue controls water and green eyes, for lack of a better word can "see" (X-ray vision, read minds, etc.) then blue-green eyes would be able to see as far as they need as long as its through water.

[Gaelan he/him]

You can do some good stuff if you write it in the right way, but isn't Brent Weeks doing much or less a similar thing in his new saga? It is definitely not the same that what you are purposing, but kinda looks similar.

 

However, not a bad idea

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Are you serious? And here I was, thinking I was all original now that i look it up, it is pretty similar

[Tarontos he/him]

If you are talking about Drafting the magic just makes the eyes change color the more magic you use.

also i like the concept. 

now questions

do brown eyes have something to do with earth and plants? ie fertility to justify the commoness of the color

Does every body have magic or do a small minority.

What about eye colors that do not exist

or albinos, the power of telekinetic fire.

Colored contacts to hide your power or to intimidate.

Gold ringed eyes maybe some type of additional power

That thing with eyes of a different colors multiple magic types

i know somebody knows the name

Edited September 9, 2013 by Tarontos

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Answers

-I'm not sure about brown eyes yet. I can't decide if they should have a power or not.

-I think the majority of the people would be darkeyes with a minority of say 20% of people in the world being coloreyes.

-There are different eye colors on this planet than earth. For example, yellow, red, orange, purple, white. I'm thinking something like a color wheel where you choose a color (on photoshop for instance and there are 2-4 sections for each color depending on how you define them. There is a vibrant of each color(water moving,in the example), a pale of each color(water freezing), and an inbetween color for each side of the circle, if that makes sense. So blue has vibrant, pale, blue green, and indigo. Purple would have vibrant, pale, indigo, and maroon. Etc. the central colors are blue, purple, red, orange, yellow, and orange. There is also white, but there are no shades of that.

-Colored contacts are a smart idea and would probably have been used on this planet

-The gold thing is interesting, I'm not sure about it.

-I don't understand the last one

[Tarontos he/him]

in twins occasional each eye has a different color

also gray scale eyes those are the shades of white

Edited September 9, 2013 by Tarontos

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Oh, I see, it would depend how far off the colors were. If one was a pale and the other a vibrant then they would be able to do half as much with each.

At least in this magic system, white is white, gray is not white. Gray is a darkeye, same for brown and black

Edit: Anyone feel free to ask questions like these. As I answer questions, it solidifies and clarifies itself in my head

Edited September 9, 2013 by Mailliw73

[Mailliw73 he/him]

This is a *VERY rough draft of a are arcanum type diagram of the powers.

The inner circle are the pales. The middle in each color are the vibrants. The ones with two colors are the inbetween ones. Sorry now the image is there

Edited September 10, 2013 by Mailliw73

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Green: "See"

Green Vibrant: X-ray vision

Green Pale: Read minds

Teal: See through water

Blue: Water

Blue Vibrant-water telekinesis

Blue Pale-freeze water

Indigo: Ocean life

Purple: Nature

Purple Vibrant: plant life

Purple pale: animal life