<div class="quote"><i>DrachenRitter42 wrote:
Interestingly, IIRC in our history blue and purple are more traditionally associated with Old World royalty - purple especially. Unless I'm mistaken, those dyes were so exorbitantly expensive to manufacture in the Middle Ages(and even farther back in history) that only royalty or the very wealthiest merchants or nobles could afford them, which is why it is a much more common color in depictions of royalty than most anything else; in fact, I seem to recall in England at some point anyone outside of the royal family was strictly forbidden from wearing purple.
<p>So as a color intended to depict royal status, purple would be appropriate - with the added bonus of its association with villains in many instances providing that extra bit of emphasis on "This guy is an evil ruler".
</p><p>Now that I think of it, purple seems to be an uncommon color even in the Avatarverse; the only example I can think of offhand is that King Bumi wore purple at one point in ATLA - and, of course, the purple pentapus :P
</p><p>Though yes, white flames would probably look pretty awesome too.
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<p>Now when I better think about it, purple wouldn't be that bad! Actually, it would look much better, even tho, not sure if you have noticed, when Azula shoots her blue flames, it kinda fades from blue in some kind of purple-ish and then it goes to normal orange fire. I've seen that several of time in the ATLA. Also, there was purple fire when Aaang and Zuko visited the Temple of the Sun(not sure if it's the correct name) and when those two dragons made the fire tornado that contained green, red, orange, pale yellow and purple colors(interesting, no blue flames)around Aang and Zuko.
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