Restraint (W) – The ability to withstand temptation.

Stopping yourself from doing things that are bad.

When you do not practice restraint, you engage in self destructive behavior or behavior that hurts others. White resists temptation.

Mind (U) – The ability to understand abstract ideas through conscious thought.

Blue focuses on developing its higher cognitive thinking. It is good at methodical reasoning, problem solving, and learning quickly. Mind’s domain is conscious knowledge.

When you don’t think you do stupid things and those mistakes stop you from being better.

Motivation (B) –having a willingness to pursue your self-interest or goals.

Willing things to happen. Doing things that accomplish what you want even if they involve hardship. It is hard to pursue what is good for you, it is not always immediately gratifying and it can piss off other people.

If you lack Motivation then you will not take control of your life and you cannot be happy. This is Blacks way of taking responsibility for its happiness

Emotion Intelligence ( R ) – the capacity to be aware of, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.

Knowing yourself and others. No one understand themselves better than Red because Red focuses on its emotions more than anyone. This gives Red the ability to understand people on a level no one else can. This involves constantly asking yourself how you feel.

If you lack emotional intelligence you cannot understand how you feel. If you don’t understand how you feel then you cant act on your feelings. If your emotions tell you how to act and you don’t understand them, then you don’t know how to act.

Intuition(G) - A developed subconscious understanding of how events will happen based on observations or sensory data.

Represents your ability to pay attention to the world around you through perceptiveness and hunches. Having presence of mind.

If you don’t pay attention to the world then you can’t see how the world works. If you don’t listen to your gut then you can’t understand who you are.

Shared attributes-

The attribute of one color naturally bleeds into its allies because it is like its allies. A color also lacks the attributes of its enemies because they are unlike.

White has excellent Restraint as well as good Mind and Intuition, but lacks Emotional Intelligence and Motivation.



White excels at resisting temptation. White is good at understanding abstract concepts because it is Blues ally. White is good at noticing the world around it and understanding how events will develop based on hunches because it is allies with Green. White lacks the ability to understand emotions on a deep level since it is a enemy of Red and lacks the ability to pursue individual goals because it is an enemy of Black.

Blue has excellent Mind as well as good Restraint and Motivation, but lacks Emotional Intelligence and Intuition.

Blue excels at understanding abstract concepts through conscious thought. Blue is good at resisting temptation because it is an ally of White. Blue is good at pursuing individual goals since it is an ally of Black. Blue lacks an ability to understand emotions on a deep level since it is a enemy of Red and does not notice the world around it or understand how events will develop based on hunches because it is an enemy with Green.

Black has excellent Motivation as well as good Mind and Emotional Intelligence, but lacks Intuition and Restraint.

Black excels at pursuing individual goals. Black is good at understanding abstract concepts through conscious thought because it is an ally with Blue. Black is good at understanding emotions on a deep level because it is an ally with Red. Black lacks an ability to resist temptation because it is an enemy of White and lacks an ability to notice the world around it or understand how events will develop based on hunches because it enemies with Green.

Red has excellent Emotional Intelligence as well as good Motivation and Intuition, but lacks Restraint and Mind.

Red excels at understanding emotions on a deep level. Red is good at pursuing individual goals because it is an ally of Black. Red is good at noticing the world around it and understand how events will develop based on hunches because it is an ally of Green. Red lacks the ability to restrain itself because it is an enemy of White and lacks an ability to understand abstract concepts through conscious thought because it is an enemy of Blue.



Green has excellent Intuition as well as good Introspection and Restraint, but lacks Motivation and Mind.

Green excels at noticing the world around it and understands how events will develop based on hunches. Green is good at resisting temptation because it is an ally of White. Green is good at understanding emotions on a deep level because it is an ally with Red. Green lacks an ability to understand abstract concepts through conscious thought because it is an enemy of Blue and lacks the ability to pursue individual goals because it is an enemy of Black.

You may want to say that each color has a shared attribute and not one main one. This leads to some difficulties. If White and Blue equally share Mind then they are both equally good at using conscious thought to understand abstract ideas and it is only manifested differently based on White being Restrained and Blue being Motivated. I don’t think this is true. Blue is better at Mind that White, they both use Mind differently, but Blue has better Mind than White. The same goes for the other attributes.

Why is this useful?

If you like understanding the color pie then this doesn’t need to be useful outside of that. This post shows what colors attributes are. Attributes are distinguished from the philosophical positions that the colors hold. The main Attributes are the practical result of holding the two philosophical positions a color has.

White holds that it is better to serve others, and better to follow the rules. White needs an attribute that accomplishes both serving others and following the rules. White becomes Restrained because if you do not give into temptations you will respect others and follow the rules. Since it is the case that peoples interests collide if people do not give into the temptation of screwing the other over, then everyone benefits since everyone is not trying screw each other over. Since White knows that doing some actions feel good in the moment, but will be detrimental later on, it has rules that stop it from doing those self-harming actions. But it needs a way of following the rules, which is through not giving into temptation.

Blue holds that it is best to think things through before acting, and that it is good to strive for better. Mind lets you understand because consciously understanding abstract ideas is the definition of understanding according to Blue. If you understand then you are able to think things through because you can consider what will happen. In addition, when you understand you are less likely to make a mistake, and mistakes make you worse. If you do not make any mistakes then you will always be becoming better.

Black holds that it is best to act according to your self-interest, and that you have control of your life. Ambition lets you control your life to the benefit of yourself because it makes you resilient to hardship. Since hardship stops people from pursuing self-interest, if you are okay with hardship then you can pursue your self interest. In addition, given that hardship stops people from thinking they can control their lives, if you become okay with hardship then you can control your life.

Red holds that it is best to act on whims and act often. Emotional Intelligence lets you act on whims and acts often because it allows you to pays attention to how it feels in the moment. If you pay attention to how you feel then you always will always have emotions to act on, since you are always feeling something. In addition, if emotion causes you to act, finding out what emotions you are feeling will give you the ability to act all the time.

Green holds that it is best to accept fate, and accept who you are. Intuition lets you do both of these. To accept fate you need to see how fate works. Intuition makes you focus on the world. When you notice how the world works you see that nothing is unaffected by an external force, something always causes something else why would your actions be any different. But you also have to accept your nature, and you cannot accept your nature if you do not know what your nature is. To understand your nature you focus on what your nature is telling you.

Qualifications-

This is an examination of what mono color attributes are like.

If you strongly exhibit one of the attributes, you are probably at least partially that color because you have the main strength of that color. This is also not supposed to exclusively determine what color someone is. If you do not exhibit any of these traits it does not mean you are colorless. Valuing attributes also ties you to a color. If you want more Motivation then you are aiming to be like Black, you just don’t have the skills that Black has. A Character who is in part Blue can value being “smart” (Mind) but not actually be smart. White may really want to resist temptation but may not be able. Green may really want to pay attention to itself and the world but it may not be able to. Red may really want to pay attention to its emotions but it may not be able to.



The Process-

This part is useful to read if you want to understand how I came up the color attributes.

The easy part of this was figuring out Green and Blue. I used their definitions based on this post. https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/31jgrk/what_wisdom_really_is/

They are the DnD attributes of Intelligence and Wisdom as defined in the post linked above exclusively! However, instead of using intelligence i used Mind. Mind gives you a better idea of what Blue is about since Blue is drawn towards abstract ideas through conscious thinking, this seems like it goes along well with Mind. Calling Blue intelligence implies that Red and Green lack any knowledge, they do not! Red and Green know things that Blue does not (according to them at least).

Wisdom is misleading it implies Green characters are mystic gurus on top of a mountain giving out advice. This is not representative of Greens main attribute. Intuition implies a subconscious understanding of how events will play out based on observations or sensory data. This does not mean Green does not give good advice, it does, but so does Blue and the other colors too. Blues advice is based on abstract concepts Greens is based on hunches.





I used this post to understand Charisma. https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/3b4xjx/charisma_is_not_how_likeable_you_are/







As far as I can tell, DnD has charisma as a composite of multiple attributes. Willpower and Emotional Intelligence. There are plenty of people who have Emotional Intelligence but lack Willpower and this is how Red is represented to an extent. Red is good at looking within and acting based on its desires but lacks Restraint. It cannot stop it self from doing things it ‘shouldnt’.

I have also split willpower in two, the power to do, and the power to not do because of how Black and White characters are presented. Black characters are often presented as someone who ruthlessly pursues their goals but likes to, and cannot resist, self-indulgence. They have Motivation but not Restraint. White characters are often presented as characters that can withstand temptation but do not try to make their lives better through enduring hardship. They have Restraint but not Motivation. Each deals with hardship, but for different reasons. White endures hardship when the world makes life hard but Black makes life hard for itself to reap the rewards. White is good at passive willpower. Black is good at active willpower.

As an analogy, if someone offered a White character $1 mil to murder someone he would not, because even though it is hard to, he is able to resist the temptation to kill someone for $1mil. A Black character offered the same amount would kill the person because he is unable to deal with the hardship of resisting. This shows how each color deals with passive willpower.

Another analogy, a White farmer who lacks problems will continue to do the same thing because life is okay, the farmer is unwilling to make life harder. A Black farmer who lacks problems will find ways to get more through hard work because life is only okay, and is willing to make life harder. This shows how the colors deal with active willpower.

I slightly modified the definitions of Emotional intelligence and Motivation as google defines them to come up with my own definitions.

Even in DnD charisma manifests itself differently based on classes as they are stereo-typically thought of, The Paladin is Restrained, The Sorcerer has Emotional Intelligence, and the Warlock is Motivated. The Paladin is restrained because his power comes from resisting temptation to do wrong actions and by training consistently. The Sorcerer draws its power through its emotions and understanding itself. The Warlock is willing to take actions no one else would because he is more driven towards his goals than other people. If I was feeling less creative Restraint would be called WontPower and Motivation would be Called WillPower.

Make sure you check out all of these posts as they were useful for understand what a color wants. (thank Yama951 of reddit for putting them in one place)

White: http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/112879602469/color-pie-friday-aligning-the-colors

Blue: http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/117252176688/color-pie-friday-aligning-blue

Black: http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/119026650005/color-pie-friday-aligning-black

Red: http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/120186450289/color-pie-friday-aligning-red

Green: http://sarpadianempiresvol-viii.tumblr.com/post/121350149837/color-pie-friday-aligning-green