Color Essence

## Overview

Color essence is an ancient and natural magic that seemingly comes from/is the colors themselves. Color essence contains some level of consciousness and intelligence, however it is unknown how far this ability extends. The color essence can control elements within the color of the essence, allowing blue essence to control water, red essence to control fire, etc. The pure color gems, when integrated into a staff, allows some sort of communication between the bearer and the color essence. It is not verbal however, and the closest any ruler has come to describing was "It is a connection between the minds of both color and Piktu", though it is unknown how accurate this is. Each planet contains one environment near one of its poles that has a very large amount of pure color gems, though removing too many of these can and will destabilize the planet, causing massive harm to every ecosystem.

## History

Not much is know about the origins of color essence, and any attempts at using techniques such as carbon dating to determine its age have been unsuccessful. This leads many to theorize that the color essence is at least as old as the solar system, if not older. Its power to control elements was first discovered by a Piktu Ruler many eons ago, and they started to mine the quarry they found it in, however they quickly stopped once they noticed the massive effect on the environment, and reported to the other Piktus of their finds. Each Piktu had decided that they would take one pure gem of color essence and infuse it into an object they take everywhere, (most using their staff), and started a tradition of passing down the object until it was unusable, and then taking the pure color essence gem from that object, and moving it to a new object. This tradition has lasted until this day, and th Piktu's have always been careful not to take too much, as the planet the color essence was originally discovered on is still recovering from the loss of its essence, despite most of it being returned.

## Powers

Each color can completely control any element within its designated color range, making white color essence by far the most powerful, as the color white is technically a combination of all colors. Black color essence is also extremely powerful, as it can remove the powers of other segments of color essence, (as black is the absence of color). However, white color essence and black color essence are incredibly rare.

## Obtaining Color Gems

Color gems are only given to royal Piktu's, however the process of obtaining the gem may differ between each nation. Generally speaking the Piktu must go through some trial to obtain the color gem. The process of obtaining a white color essence gem and black color essence gem is not as simple however. To obtain a white color essence gem, you must collect a gem of each planets main color, and undergo a specialized process of fusing them under incredibly high heat and pressure in order to form a single white color essence gem. Black color gems must be collected on the cusp of a black hole, as there must be a true absence of color/light in order for it to form. It is unknown how the black color essence gems do not get inhaled by the black holes, however they are the most dangerous gem to collect.