At first, it sounded like a lot of trouble, but on second thought, it made perfect sense. A large part of what distinguished one coat of arms from another was its color scheme. With such a limited range of colors available, faithfully reproducing them would be quite difficult.
When you could count all the available colors on your fingers, replacing them with conventional patterns was a very quick and easy solution—and far more reliable than most unstable dyes.
After this method was invented, it naturally spread to smooth metal and Stone Matter surfaces that were difficult to color.
"Looks like learning a bit of Heraldry was the right call. Can you explain what this is?"
"I can only tell you what colors the different patterns represent." Being able to read colors was a byproduct of studying Heraldry, but this clearly wasn't a coat of arms, and Green couldn't guess what it meant.
There were so many line patterns that it was hard to imagine what they would look like with their colors filled in.
"Fine." Kraft tried to picture the patterns automatically replaced with colors, wondering what they might represent.
First of all, it couldn't possibly be a coat of arms. There were no heraldic figures or divisions anywhere, just a jumble of lines that would drive anyone with obsessive-compulsive tendencies crazy.
But as with untangling a mess of wires, they needed to find a good place to start. The banded pattern that appeared repeatedly seemed promising.
It appeared in several images, with a gentle curve like silk ribbon wrapped around a gift or an umbilical cord sustaining life. It was filled with horizontal lines, which, if Green was right, meant blue.
Kraft filled in the band with blue in his mind. Curiously, the radiating lines had the same pattern,