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What does "green Antarctica" mean?

Every color is just the black version of itself. Everyone will do anything to survive or get more power, but some colours are worse that others (aka White).

http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/timelines/green_antarctica (An custom civilisation /setting on a green antartica where everything runs on darwinian/lovecraftian horror. Almost every human civilisation inhabiting the green antartica is evil in its own unique way and the wildlife are feral. Some of them map onto the colour pie and I'm trying to make a set inspired by a Green Antartica a la Theros/Innistrad. And since it includes a lot of Lovecraft reference this is kind of a Lovecraft themed set.

Another theme is that winter last for months with no sunrise (snow) and everyone views white as the foul vile color of death and snow that only the someone totally inhuman would serve willingly (everyone else being evil in a human way). Hence white becomes the Game of Thrones white walker colour with Qys (white walkers), Ghouls and creature destruction as well as human civilisation that seeks to end pain by destroy all life.

I feel like you're misunderstanding or warping the color pie to fit the flavor you want, but I could just be struggling to understand your vision. It doesn't help that it seems like the wiki you linked to requires a membership to provide useful information.

I'm still struggling with white being foul and vile; those words are black adjectives. Fleshy undead are also almost purely in black's domain. I think your "villain" is actually black but at some point you decided it had to be white.

The problem is that in the source material, white is colour of death, snow and death. And the best way to represent that is give white more creature destruction, flavour bleed in zombies into and some black abilities.

The setting I am trying to adapt has human civilisations that views complete selfishness as proper behaviour, survival at any cost as morally desirable, compassion as stupidity and parasitism as a clever strategy. The humans civilisations in the work are all utterly black aligned in the work and associate white with zombies, ice elementals and a human civilisation called the Cold Islanders that are essential White Phyrexians.

I've tried to reconcile this with magics colour pie as an "evil versus oblivion" conflict. AU-White claims that life is endless suffering, that everyone has a moral duty to die and that building mountains of bleached bones is an act of kindness. Meanwhile canon Black merely wants to survive, act selfishlessly and acquire personal power.

Here is a link that might work: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lLnX36YVSCsq-TjqeNErG9lS7jMITHDKXfufM9Vw3DY

After a quick perusal of some summaries and the TV tropes page, it seems the main conflict is not with white. It's green. In fact it seems to be primarily {u}{b} versus {g}. Of course, you're much more familiar with the source material than I am.

I see the the author/setting has chosen white the color as a representation of something to be feared, but that doesn't necessarily correlate to Magic white.

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