On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:57:20PM -0400, Thomas Yan wrote: > "Gametech" <voltronalpha at hotmail.com> writes: > > This effect is created I believe from the greater sea of > > [chaos]? I could be wrong about that. > > I don't think there's been anything explicit to confirm or deny > that. To the best of my recollection, there is nothing canonical. I have it >from a knowledgeable source (ran a character in the universe) that it's pollution - the overcast is some kind of byproduct of sorcery. So, it is, in a rather round-about way, from the Great Sea of Chaos. > > Everything I can recall suggests > > that it is a reddish or orange hue. I'd liken it to a red-orange > > sunset -- but all the time, well except for night time but it only > > would make a little sense if it affected the night sky as well just > > a little bit. > > That reminds me. > > In _The Phoenix Guards_, ch16, p159, Paarfi describes a character with > -"brown hair, almost red beneath the natural orangish light of day"-. > True, Paarfi is verbose, but -"natural orangish"- still strikes me as > unusually redundant even for him. It also makes me wonder about their > sources of light, some of which evidently are not "orangish". It's > been a while -- what's candle light like? Yellow-white flame. Definitely a different color from our ordinary sunlight. > (I guess Earth's incandescent light bulbs are yellowish.) What's the difference between some people's hair under bright noon-day sun, incandescent light bulb, cool blue flourescent, and warm orange flourescent? And how do you describe it? Personally, it makes perfect sense to me. -- Scott Raun sraun at fireopal.org