What Color is Your Magic?

I used to take those online quizzes all the time when I first started blogging. But once I realized no one cared and most of them were just silly, I stopped. But on the other hand, sometimes it is just a bit of fun, and when there is an offical one for a book you just read and enjoyed, you just have to take it. This quiz for the forthcoming new novel from Brent Weeks, The Black Prism even includes a section that is very like the magic test in the book. Not many of those online quizzes can say that.

I’m a green magic drafter!

Take the quiz at Brent Weeks.com

YOU ARE A GREEN DRAFTER
Green luxin is springy and flexible. The uses are as varied as the drafter is creative: from furniture to projectiles to shields to the throwing arms of war engines. Greens are wild, free. They don’t so much disrespect authority as not even recognize it.

The results from your color matching test have also shown that you are one of the elite, a superchromat. The magic you do will almost never fail. Satrapies will compete to recruit you, and you will have a wide latitude in what work you choose to do once you finish your studies. You can expect your patron to lavish praise and honors on you. As a monochrome, you will master your color, and only have to defer to bichromes and polychromes and, of course, the nobility and the satraps who support us all.

MAGIC IN THE BLACK PRISM
When a candle burns, a physical substance (wax) is transformed into light. Chromaturgy in The Black Prism is the inverse: A drafter transforms light into a physical substance (luxin). Each different color of luxin has its own strength, weight, and even smell: blue luxin is hard, red is gooey, yellow is liquid, etc. But even as drafters change the world, the luxin changes them too, physically, mentally, and emotionally. The color change of a drafter’s eyes is only the beginning…