Colors of Necromancy

The colors of Necromancy are black, green and purple. Usually black is the base color while the designs are in green or purple. This applies to banners and official robes.

The robes of students are black. It is allowed to wear a belt in green or purple with the robes, but not mandatory. Faculty members have black robes with embroidered designs in either green or purple - or both. They usually wear a broad embroidered belt in two of the three colors as well. Where the students don't have any choice of robe shapes and cuts, the faculty members have much more freedom of designs and personal touches as long as the colors are right. Some faculty members even challenge the definition of a robe and wear something closer to a dress instead.

The Meaning Behind the Colors

Black represents that the Art of Necromancy is usually done in the dark everywhere else than in the Necropolis. The rest of the world is generally skeptical of a form of magic that can raise the dead. Several places have Necromancy outlawed by official laws.

Green is the color of decay. Mold is often green, and if the Necromancers aren't precise and careful with the energies they use their reanimated corpses might start to decay even more than they already have. In addition, the magical energy of Necromancy is green, and Necromantic potions often have a green hue.

Purple is the general color of magic. Necromancy is one of the magical energies in the world, and it is only natural that this color is included into the Necromantic color scheme. It's not mandatory for the magical energies to include purple in their color scheme, though, yet some still do.