Mid-key values give mythological painting its characteristic quietness - nothing blazes, nothing disappears. Heat pervades this palette; warm chromatic identities outweigh cool ones at almost every weight. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. Only 6.4% is devoted to #A1683A, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. 65 units of value range underpin the palette's structural clarity: the eye always knows where light falls.