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Fuligin-colored materials can be used in cloaks, breeches and pennons.
Fuligin is the color of the Torturer's guild. The word is probably derived from fuliginous, an archaic word meaning sooty.
The earliest reference to this idea appears to be the black coating from E.E. 'Doc Smith's 1939 novel Gray Lensman. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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