SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

Piggybacking from Allison's - What order of Radiant are you (stormlight), and thanks to Hank, here is the Light Bringer Test:

Hank wrote: "Actually I think you can use this link to find out (at least what this algorithm thinks)

www.brentweeks.com/extras/lightbringe..."

What color drafter would you be (Lightbringer)

Maybe this description is better:

Given these generalities, there is also a virtue and a vice commonly associated with each color.

Sub-red drafters: Sub-reds are passionate in all ways. The most purely emotional of all drafters, the quickest to rage or to cry. Sub-reds tend to love music, are often impulsive, fear the dark less than other colors, and are often insomniacs. Emotional, distractible, unpredictable, inconsistent, loving, bighearted. Sub-red men are often sterile.
Associated vice: Wrath.

Associated Virtue: Patience.

Red drafters: Reds are quick-tempered, lusty, and love destruction. They are also warm, inspiring, brash, larger than life, expansive, jovial, and powerful.
Associated vice: Gluttony.

Associated virtue: Temperance.

Orange drafters: Oranges are often artists, brilliant in understanding other people's emotions and motivations. some use this to defy or exceed expectations. Sensitive, manipulative, idiosyncratic, slippery, charismatic, empathetic.
Associated vice: Greed.

Associated virtue: Charity.

Yellow drafters: Yellows tend to be clear thinkers with intellect and emotion in perfect balance. Cheerful, wise, bright, balanced, watchful, impassive, observant, brutally honest at times, and excellent liars. Thinkers, not doers.
Associated vice: Sloth.

Associated Virtue: Dilligence.

Green Drafters: Greens are wild, free, flexible, adaptable, nurturing, friendly. They don't so much disrespect authority as not even recognize it.
Associated vice: Lust.

Associated virtue: Self-control.

Blue drafters: Blues are orderly, inquisitive, rational, calm, cold, impartial, intelligent, and musical. Structure, rules, and hierarchy are important to them. Blues are often mathematicians and composers. Ideas and ideology and correctness often matter more than people to blues.
Associated vice: Envy.

Associated virtue: Kindness.

Superviolet drafters: Superviolets tend to have a removed outlook, dispassionate. They appreciate irony, sarcasm, and word games. They are often cold, viewing people as puzzles to be solved, or ciphers to be cracked. Irrationality outrages superviolets.
Associated vice: Pride.

Associated virtue: Humility.

Paryl drafters: Paryls are much more susceptible to pure empathy, able to absorb emotion in a way other drafters cannot

I will settle for nothing less than being a prism, thank you very much!

But going by those descriptions, I'd probably be the strongest in yellow. It doesn’t fit me perfectly, and there are a few others I identify with a bit too, but I think yellow comes closest. However, I’m most definitely a thinker and a doer, not just a thinker. If I think up some great plot, then I can’t rest until I’ve implemented it.

@ YouKneek lol. Mayhaps I should find you a description of a white?

I'd love to believe I was super passionate or organized and orderly. But, I think I might be a yellow. A good liar or so honest it hurts when i say it, even though i never meant it that way. Sloth as a vice but sloths are always smiling... right?

I read some of Brent Weeks' books several years ago, but can't remember which series they'd be from. I think they were to do with fire and demons....

So, not being immersed in this world, but reading your descriptions, I think I'd be a Paryl drafter. Whatever a drafter is 😁. You've done some detailed work on these.

I'm pretty sure that when I was reading the books, I figured that I would be a red and green drafter with more emphasis to the red.

I identified myself most with Ben-hadad. He was a yellow/green/blue polychrome and a great engineer. That fits me. I think it would have been cool to be a member of the Mighty and to help out Kip.

Actually I think you can use this link to find out (at least what this algorithm thinks)

www.brentweeks.com/extras/lightbringe...

Hank! This is great, thanks so much for the link. Here are my official results:

YOU ARE AN ORANGE DRAFTER
Orange luxin is slick, lubricative, and heavy. It is often used in conjunction with machines and traps. Oranges are often artists, brilliant in understanding other people's emotions and motivations. Some use this to defy or exceed expectations. Others become master manipulators.

The results from your color matching test have also shown that you are one of the elite, a superchromat. The magic you do will almost never fail. Satrapies will compete to recruit you, and you will have a wide latitude in what work you choose to do once you finish your studies. You can expect your patron to lavish praise and honors on you. As a monochrome, you will master your color, and only have to defer to bichromes and polychromes and, of course, the nobility and the satraps who support us all.

Agreed, thank you Hank!

I also got orange superchromat Anders ✴️

Ahh, I must have hexed it.

Thanks Hank!

I got orange superchromat too, so I think this thing is rigged! Orange was one of the colors I thought sounded the least like me. :)

I tended to go for the “give me more info” options if they were available, mainly because the other options all sounded like bad choices without knowing more about the situation, so maybe that’s why we’re all getting orange?

I tried taking the test one more time and deliberately avoided the “more info” options and went more with my best judgments based on what I could infer from the questions and options. I kept most of my other answers (where there wasn’t a “more info” option) the same. That time I ended up with blue superchromat. That one fits me better than orange, although I would disagree with parts of it! I think one of the things that pushed me over the edge on that was choosing accountant as my job, but I don't WANT to be an accountant, it was just the least horrible of the choices and something I think I could actually be successful at. :p

I got green and then yellow which fits my alternately, incredibly boring personality and every so slightly emotional one.

Apparently I'm a superchromat yellow.

Also yellow - also asked for more info most of the time

See that YouKneek, Orange you glad they got different colors... =D

You know, I haven't actually read this series but I got the Yellow and idk about the virtues but the vice (Sloth) sounds very on point.

Andres wrote: "See that YouKneek, Orange you glad they got different colors... =D"

It’s quite a relief! I yellowed at them that if they gave somebody else orange it would be at their paryl.

(It does seem to be on some sort of cycle though… now everybody is getting yellow!)