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{{quote|"''...For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colors, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. 'I liked white better,' I said.''"
There is an idea (codified by [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]) that wizards are identified as X the Color. Sometimes, it indicates rank, sometimes, jurisdiction, and every now and then, the ''type'' of magic being used. [[White Magic]] and [[Black Magic]], of course, are the most common examples. Another is [[Elemental Powers]].
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▲== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* Although not much is made of it, ''[[Slayers]]'' gives its wizards colors as well (Rezo the Red Priest, for example). The reason it doesn't enter into it much (especially outside the novels) is that Lina's is "The Pink", which has a reputation in Japanese Culture.
== [[Card Games]] ==▼
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' is centered entirely around a system of five colors of magic: white (focusing on purity and light), green (focusing on nature and life), red (fire and strength), black (death and decay), and blue (mind, time, and the manipulation of magic itself).▼
** They sometimes dress in those colors, too, but thankfully don't always...▼
*** Part of the reason for dressing 'in-color' is that most ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130706122134/http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg%2Fdaily%2Fstf%2F96 but not all!]) card art has a palette that matches the card's color.▼
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' has (at the beginning of the book) Saruman the White, Gandalf the Grey, and Radagast the Brown. Tolkien's notes also make reference to Alatar and Pallando, who are both blue.
* [[Discworld]] parodies Radagast with Ridicully the Brown (probably with the intention of making you think of... certain body functions), who, rather than a nature lover, is more of an [[Egomaniac Hunter]]. One book also references this by having the wizards' washerwomen mock the cleanliness of those who use "The White" as a title. Finally, a straight example is Ipslore the Red in ''[[
** Mrs Whitlow's line in ''[[
** Most recently parodied in ''[[
* ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'' by [[Neal Stephenson]] engages in some [[Magical Realism]] by having Enoch Root, who also appears in ''[[Cryptonomicon]]'', which is set several centuries later - it's implied that he's a sort of "Wandering Jew" type. His last name is similar to the Dutch or German word for red and, at one point, he's referred to as Enoch the Red and linked to wizardry.
* And in the ''[[Tortall Universe|Tortall]]'' books by [[Tamora Pierce]], the color of a mage's robe signifies his level of expertise - eg, Numair Salmalin in the Immortals quartet is said to be one of only seven Black Robe mages in the world. (...Because almost everyone else who tried to reach that level is dead.)
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* In ''[[Septimus Heap]]'', Wizardry is color-coded: Purple is used by the ExtraOrdinary Wizards and their Apprentices, while bright green is associated with other Magyk.
== [[Live
* The rangers in ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]/[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]'' fit this trope well. They are even called "Magician of the *color*" in ''Magiranger''.
== [[Radio]] ==
* ''Hordes of the things'' [BBC radio parody of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''!]; Radox the Green, Badedas the blue, Fenjal the Pink...(all names of bubble bath products).
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
▲=== [[Card Games]] ===
* The Colleges of Magic in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' are each dedicated to a different "wind" of magic, which the human mind perceives as being of different colors. These colors, and their corresponding aspects, are Red (Fire), Gold (Metal and logic), Green (Life and fertility), Blue (Air and the heavens), Purple (Death and fighting the undead), Brown (Animals), White (Light, knowledge, and fighting daemons), and Grey (Shadows, illusions, and trickery).▼
▲* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' is centered entirely around a system of five colors of magic: white (focusing on purity and light), green (focusing on nature and life), red (fire and strength), black (death and decay), and blue (mind, time, and the manipulation of magic itself).
▲** They sometimes dress in those colors, too, but thankfully don't always...
▲*** Part of the reason for dressing 'in-color' is that most ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130706122134/http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg%2Fdaily%2Fstf%2F96 but not all!]) card art has a palette that matches the card's color.
=== Tabletop RPG ===
* In the [[Ironclaw]] RPG, the colors of a practitioner's robe details their abilities. [[Telepathy|Cognoscente]] adepts wear either green or purple, [[Elemental Powers|Elementalists]] wear the color of their chosen school (yellow for air, brown for earth, red for fire, and blue for water), clerics wear white, and thaumaturges wear grey.
* [[The Dark Eye]] has the three guilds of mages, white(law abiding and usually following strict ethics and codes when using magic), black(free thinkers who believe that every type of magic deserves to be researched) and grey(somewhere in between). All other practitioners of magic don't fall into this scheme though.
=== War Games ===
▲* The Colleges of Magic in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' are each dedicated to a different "wind" of magic, which the human mind perceives as being of different colors. These colors, and their corresponding aspects, are Red (Fire), Gold (Metal and logic), Green (Life and fertility), Blue (Air and the heavens), Purple (Death and fighting the undead), Brown (Animals), White (Light, knowledge, and fighting daemons), and Grey (Shadows, illusions, and trickery).
== Toys ==
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