Talk:Orange Gem/@comment-96.52.6.21-20130831143256/@comment-26940372-20151213173637

The red gem for fire comes from the red of fire, the blue gem's cold comes from the reflection of the sky off of water, which is usually cold, and purple represents darkness, which is the color seen at the end of twilight, or right before dawn, at the edges of darkness. Yellow probably comes from either yellow being a bright color, the yellow illumination from a candle, the color of the sun through rayleigh scattering (on earth), or the color you get from looking directly at an incandescent light (for half of a second, before you are temporarily blinded and looking at a purple shape stuck on your vision). The green may come from the thought that you need to work to make the world a better (more green, in this case) place. The orange may come from the orange of a carrot, lazing around in the ground, or the simple lack of colors left on the primary-secondary color wheel.

I could very well be wrong, and that is fine.