Black+White=Red?????2??????

Now I may be a rocket scientist but that seems slightly unaccurate...can someone explained to me how this truth hath cometh to light?

You see, when you put on your rose-tinted glasses, everything looks red.

Serious or trolling?

Just in case you are serious.

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Red_Mage

Because "Grey Mage" sounded dull? Even Gandalf didn't want to stay grey.

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Originally Posted by Vanitas

Now I may be a rocket scientist but that seems slightly unaccurate...can someone explained to me how this truth hath cometh to light?

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Quick googling seems to point towards inspiration from Dungeons & Dragons and related fantasy literature (Dragonlance).

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=729582
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonlance
http://dragonlancenexus.com/lexicon/...hp?title=Mages
http://dragonlancenexus.com/lexicon/..._the_Red_Robes

But then again, maybe red just worked nicely with the limited color palettes of the gaming systems back when FF1 was released.

It just sucks they lumped in with the casters for gear and as usual only the name is unique and nothing more.

Aye, I reckon that Dragonlance was the most probable inspiration for Final Fantasy's red mage, but I don't think this was ever officially confirmed.

I recognise that it's been literally a generation since table-top RPG and the Dragonlance chronicles were popular, but this isn't something that a little bit of Googlefu can't solve.

In the Dragonlance universe, black-robed mages were the equivalent of Sith lords in the Star Wars universe. They were mages who preferred the quick and easy path to powerful magic, while white-robed mages preferred the slower, but ultimately more powerful route to the highest levels of magic. The red-robed mages were those in between, and favoured balance. The most powerful magic-user of the Dragonlance chronicles, Raistlin Majere, started as a "red mage", but eventually took the black, on his path to godhood.

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Originally Posted by bass9020

It just sucks they lumped in with the casters for gear and as usual only the name is unique and nothing more.

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Must suck to be so jaded.

...Magic...