A/N: This concludes Colors of the Rainbow, the first book in the Rainbow series.

However, the story does not end here. The second book, Shadow of the Rainbow, picks up exactly where this story left off. In fact, if you are reading this, the first chapter has already been posted. For now it will continue its weekly schedule, once more without any guarantees that I wont step it back to bi-weekly if I do actually slow down, but I aim to keep releasing bi-weekly at the least.

The first chapter of the next book will be kept mostly spoiler free, and should hopefully serve as a teaser for anyone who might come across the story, so I'd ask you to do the same with the comments on that chapter.

If you want to remain even minor-spoiler-free, try to avoid reading the summary of the second book until you've read the second chapter, which will be posted one week after the first.

Alright, you can move on now. What follows is mostly pointless rambling, so I won't keep you any longer.

As promised, I have a list of the stories that served as major inspirations for this one, in case you'd like to read something else to tide you over. The list is not complete, there are at least three notable exceptions which could serve as spoilers to the coming story, so they won't be mentioned yet.

Obviously, I need to mention Sleet and Hail by Friss, which has not just inspired some of the writing style, a lot of the duels, depictions and generally anything awesome, but also me writing in general, with Friss helping me along and giving feedback all the way. Massive Kudos.

Now for the others:

Alexandra Potter by Taure (Through which also Alexandra Quick by Inverarity, since that story was seemingly inspired by that one): This story served as a large inspiration for Iris, for the theme in general, and also some of the world and magicbuilding (for the last part even more so the more famous spin-off called Victoria Potter). The story has been sadly nuked off the internet, but you can probably still find it if you look really hard. Basically, it's very similar to Victoria Potter, but instead of magical exploration and relationships it focuses a lot more on themes of too much power and talent not always being a good thing, and the consequences that come with that. Still definitely worth a read, even if Taure himself probably would disagree.

The Good War, The Plan Series, and generally anything from the massive Multiverse between inwardtransience and PseudoLeiugha: Mostly for the other half of the writing style, also the term Polarized Magic (even though it works very differently), and some of the early worldbuilding elements (Like the Truce and the Slytherin house rules). I realized along the way that adding some of those was maybe not the greatest idea, both because they don't serve that much of a purpose in the context of this story and also are basically mostly a rip-off without much of a unique spin and lose relevance as the story goes on. I had never written anything before this and sadly didn't know better back then. But at this point it's too late to change it, so it's here to stay, for better or worse. If anything, it serves as yet another practice tool to shove me into plot holes I have to keep writing myself back out of.

There was some fic that used the idea of the Flame Freezing Charm being the easiest charm as depicted here, but I can't for the life of me remember which one it was, please let me know if you recognized it so I can change it here.

Also, the way the Defense Curse works is a blatant rip-off from Seventh Horcrux by EmeraldAshes. Go read that fic, no context required.

The Aspect-based magic system and the way the ritual system works, as well as the potions, the polarized magic, and the mind magic are all to the best of my knowledge entirely original. Although the ideas of aspects and colors at all was loosely inspired by the spell categorizations in Hogwarts Legacy.

Also, I'm thinking about scrapping the Subreddit (which yes, does exist), in favor of a Discord server to allow for some theory crafting. Let me know if you're interested.

And that is a wrap. See you in the next one, if you're curious to see where the story goes from here.