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Colour Blind

Colour Blind Colour Blind ‘…when I finally do find one it’s got five eyes: two greens, a blue, a brown and a chartreuse. Then the next one has only one eye and it changes colour. . Eye colour is important in these books and Arliden’s nonsense is a pretty good place to start. You can work out a lot from eyes which is lucky for us because it’s one of the more obvious building blocks that Pat has repeatedly provided the clues for us to work with and much ink is given over to talking about them. From the Adem’s ‘all eyes are grey eyes’ to Cinder’s being solid black ‘like a goat’ and then there are Faen eyes which turn into a solid bright white when the fae come into contact with iron. Then there is an ancient faen shaper of ‘the dark and changing eye’ and Selitos One-Eye too, we are told an awful lot about the specific eyes of certain folk from long, long ago and it’s all quite overwhelming to follow, although not a lot is given over to the individual colours of p...