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#1 excalainen Aug 23, 2010 13:11:18	So what colour is the sun? In the text it is crimson but in images it is brownish. I'm confused.
#2 rollawaythestone Aug 23, 2010 13:54:22	It's crimson.  Artistic liberties are often taken. Even then, our Sun isn't always the same color, right?
#3 Larni Aug 23, 2010 17:42:10	It used to be sapphire or assure. Then half-ings turned it yellow. Now it t is red.
#4 pepsijedi Aug 23, 2010 21:57:02	Then there was that one year it was rebelling and trying to be all emo and went through a dark fushia stage. lol It's dark crimson, which I'm sure on some days can appear a ruddy brown. As stated before our sun isn't a uniform yellow 365 days a year or in different locations on earth.
#5 salla Aug 23, 2010 21:59:24	Then there was that one year it was rebelling and trying to be all emo and went through a dark fushia stage. Then it went back to yellow, then it talked to Doc Brown, got in a DeLorean, and went Back To The Fuschia.
#6 twilightbourne Aug 23, 2010 22:54:29	Its red.. as in Red Giant phase of a star... as it its about to die.. in a few million years. =)
#7 pepsijedi Aug 24, 2010 0:02:34	Then there was that one year it was rebelling and trying to be all emo and went through a dark fushia stage. Then it went back to yellow, then it talked to Doc Brown, got in a DeLorean, and went Back To The Fuschia. Nicely done!
#8 Duskweaver Aug 24, 2010 5:50:41	Look at a red sun through an atmospheric haze of yellow-orange dust and it'll look brownish. The sun will look different colours at different times for the same reason the sky looks different colours at different times. In southern France, I've seen our yellow sun turn cherry-red when there's a lot of dust from the Sahara in the atmosphere.
#9 pepsijedi Aug 24, 2010 13:14:39	Or, you know. Most anywhere in the summer when the sun sets.
#10 Mand12 Aug 24, 2010 13:39:08	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scatterin...
#11 Silverblade_The_Enchanter Aug 25, 2010 9:48:17	Actually a lot of it's almost BLACK otherwise it would be pale orange, to keep it looking so dark much of the SUn's surface must be nealry black Note it's DARK SUN, not RED SUN ;) look at the art, way it's described etc. It's not merely a red giant, but truly warped hence it mutates creatures exposed to it, see the "Sun Warped Flats" in Dragon mag. art form 4th ed DS campaign guide way I take it is that the surface is like molten metal that's pooled, top crust is dark, with cracks and holes showing glowing below. What makes it glow and emit light I think is the corona, layer of super heated plasma above and aorund the surface. Around the real Sun this layer is heated up to millions of degrees by the radiation and magnetism of the Sun, and glows. Athas' Sun is enormous, the surface may be dark, but it is still incredibly hot, radiating out enormous heat to the planets beyond, and the corona radiates out most of the visible light, If the Sun of Athas was a red giant, the land would be washed out by incredibly strong reddish orange light that would blind creatures when I make my Dark Sun art I've been slowly trying to get that look, it's very difficult in 3D if you want ot keep it looking realistic, so gonna take me a while to achieve it. slapping a dark ball in the sky won't work. Much easier ot paint such stuff than it is to render it oddly enough, lol my 2 fusion cents ;)
#12 Mand12 Aug 25, 2010 11:40:57	The scientist in me gets irked that a sun that is that color needs to be much, much bigger than it is typically depicted in order to get the baking heat that is so fundamentally Athas.
#13 Silverblade_The_Enchanter Aug 25, 2010 16:03:29	The scientist in me gets irked that a sun that is that color needs to be much, much bigger than it is typically depicted in order to get the baking heat that is so fundamentally Athas. take a deep breath, remember it's FANTASY! ;) all it needs is a rough illusion of plausibility within its setting! fantasy != sci-fi
#14 Duskweaver Aug 25, 2010 16:13:30	The scientist in me gets irked Hey, I'm an evolutionary biologist by training. How the hell do you think D&D makes me feel?
#15 rollawaythestone Aug 25, 2010 16:52:32	Hey, I'm an evolutionary biologist by training. How the hell do you think D&D makes me feel? The perfect design of the dozens of magic-ray shooting eyeballs on a Beholder is clearly evidence for an Intelligent Designer. It's simply too complex to evolve out of nature.
#16 big_goon Aug 25, 2010 17:10:21	The perfect design of the dozens of magic-ray shooting eyeballs on a Beholder is clearly evidence for an Intelligent Designer. It's simply too complex to evolve out of nature. The beholder shoots down both Darwin's Evolution and Newton's Gavity theories... along others. The Scientist in me was slaughtered long ago...
#17 rollawaythestone Aug 25, 2010 17:13:15	Failed saving throw, Darwin. Game over.
#18 Silverblade_The_Enchanter Aug 25, 2010 19:00:21	Nah, it was the Flumph that killed Darwin!! Too dumb to live! Too laughable to Evolve! Surely a god of pizza monsters exists!! ALL HAIL THE GOD OF FLUMPHS!!
#19 diggles Aug 25, 2010 21:22:13	Hey, I'm an evolutionary biologist by training. How the hell do you think D&D makes me feel? The perfect design of the dozens of magic-ray shooting eyeballs on a Beholder is clearly evidence for an Intelligent Designer. It's simply too complex to evolve out of nature. Besides the flying/hovering part, what is so 'complex' about a creature that can shoot projectiles?  There are fish that spit water, venom spraying snakes, hair shooting spiders, gas shooting mammals, acid squirting insects, sonic boom sending lobster, ink squirting squid, etc etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectile_use_by_... That magic-ray could easily be a torrent/jet of acid or venom.
#20 Silverblade_The_Enchanter Aug 26, 2010 1:38:57	Anti-Magic, Charm....? ;) Fear ye and tremble oh worms, the wrath of the mighty Wooly Rupert, Hamster of Ill Omen!!! :p
#21 Duskweaver Aug 26, 2010 8:29:42	What unholy horror have I unleashed?