Neo-Byzantine occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. 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. #BDA586 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (2.9%). The palette spans 49 value units: a measured range that delivers coherence over drama.