Talk:Prime/@comment-75.120.102.180-20140519231623/@comment-37.251.51.95-20140611144018

Plenty of cultures where white is associated with death (probably associating it more directly with bones and/or a deathly pallor and/or deathly cold (snow)). Combines well with the samurai flavour you find in several bits of the lore (katana's, sorry, nikana's, and the edo armor set, and the proud warrior culture), since the Japanese culture is a prime example of such cultures.

I'm guessing our own culture uses black because a) Darkness is "black" (and we fear both darkness and death) b) Christian symbolism claimed white as a holy/pure colour (and black is the opposite) and/or c) Necrotic flesh tends to be black.