Colors of M-Scanner
Divine: a deity or possibly a demigod.
Appearance of a true god is extremely rare.
Human Divine: someone who derives his power from faith.
Monks, priests, diviners, prophets.
Human: someone using purely human magic.
Elemental mages, psychics, telekinetics, empaths, etc.
Were-animals: shapeshifters, who derive their ability to change forms from Lyc-V.
Werewolves, werejaguars, bouda, etc.
Animal-weres: animals, who derive their ability to change forms from Lyc-V.
Occasionally shamans and druids will also register this color.
Animals.
The m-scanner registers their magic as very faint and often it does not show up at all.
The color of undeath. It’s rare to find pure red without addition of some other color into it. Usually only undead animals register as pure red and only because animal magic is too weak to significantly impact the color.
Human undead.
Vampires, reanimated corpses, ghasts, etc. The older is the undead, the weaker is the human influence and the darker and redder is its signature.
it makes you wonder what color kate is…
I believe in the first book, when she’s looking at the m-scan of Greg’s murder site, it mentions that Kate registers blue.
‘unless you have a really good m-scanner’ so with the information from Magic Slays, about the pre-vamp stuff in her blood, she’d probably show up some mix of blue and red. Wait, doesn’t it say a lot that her magic shows up carmine? what is that anyway, some sort of red?
Very useful. Thanks for putting up.
Yes, even I wonder what color does Kate register on the M-scanner with her power words and her blood wards. I suspect it is towards the red side..since so much of her magic is of blood and death.
Actually, they told us that she registers blue with anything but a really good m-scanner.
Are shapeshifters green because their magic is a mix of blue (human) and a stronger version of yellow (animal)?
I’m a big fan of the series and it’s great to see an FAQ for the M-Scanner! I was wondering, what would something like a Japanese youkai show up as on the scanner? Super pale yellow? They’re not really dead and they’re not necessarily all demonic, so I was curious how they would scan out. Going to Japan next month and couldn’t get this out of my head!
what would be the color of Roland’s magic?
This is really neat. I bet Roland is a really red purple. b/c he’s so old, and he did create the first vamp, right?