Quote Originally Posted by Crushnight View Post
I posit this question then, why is Lahabrea's mask the only bit with colour besides the two center stage Ryne and Gaia?

His mask alone would've been enough to convey it was Lahabrea so it is a stylistic choice to colour him in.

The artist deliberately added colour to him, black could very easily have been there, All other bits surrounding the girls are faded and are much more monotone in colour, the artist added colour to the parts they want you to focus on and Lahabrea is one such bit, colour was intentionally used and not using black for signature Ascian robing is something the artist wanted to convey.

Don't know about you but Lahabrea has taken more of my attention than Ryne and Gaia XD
I don't see how showing colour in the mask directly ties into whether or not the "white" parts of the hood are really white or just black lit up for contrast.

Again, Gaia - very confirmably dressed in black, and with black hair, as shown in colour on the main image - is illustrated with large "white" patches on her hair and clothes. Nobody is reading those white patches as actually there - it is clear from the context that they are just intense lighting highlighting the folds and creases.

So if the white bits on Gaia are not really white, why should the white on Lahabrea's hood be proof that he's wearing white?

I think both look to have a very similar approach of stark white highlighting on a dark object.