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Redesigned: [link]The revamped version of the first, this one boast a whomping 13 aspects of how elements are used. 4 base elements (Fire, Air, Water, Earth), the least complex, but the least restricted. 4 child elemtents (Thunder, Ice, Wood, Ore), or "schools", used in learned magic. 4 cosmic elements (Light, Dark, Terra, Stratus), the most powerful, and of the more complex to understand. And finally the stand alone "element" (Void), where time, space, balance, and chaos all coexist to form the surrounding elements. I'm so proud of this.
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cool cool cool I love it it so mystical and hidden like dark and cosmic and all that stuff and not ignoring the excellent symbols great job defintly a fav
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What's ore, terra, and statrus? lol, sorry
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Ore is metal/crystal, essentially the refinement of elements in the earth through fire. Terra is the umbrella of all that is solid, the Earth itself, if you will. Stratus/AEther is the sky and cosmos, more or less.
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Ok, I have a question. I have my own list of elements, but I have a little troule understanding what exactly is earth, and how it can be used, without stone, metal, sand, and plant (Yes, I consider them each seperate elements). Could you try to explain that to me? There's also another element I consider tied to earth, which is crystal.
So far, my list reached 33...
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Certainly. "Earth" is, oxymoronically, an umbrella element, taking into account the broader idea of all that is solid in the world. To me, "Earth" is just that, the earth, rocks, stones, plants, metals, crystals, the whole shebang; one of those "Easy to learn, hard to master elements" that you need to know before getting into the finer elements of stone, metal, plant, etc. In your case, mentioning stone, metal, plant, etc., I would put metal/crystal in the same category, i.e., when Earth interacts with Fire (a secondary element made from 2 primary elements), and plant would be the joining of Water & Earth. Sand, on the other hand, is the combination of Air & Earth; I've actually considered making sand/dust into an element, but since I cannot draw elemental charts beyond the 2nd dimension, I'm stuck with how it is. Another reason I didn't is because Earth & Air are ideologically opposite: Earth is Static, Air is Dynamic; when they're combined, they create dust/sand. This same aspect is made with steam/cloud, as a combination of Water & Fire. As for stone...I would just put that with Earth, because I consider it as an actual part of Earth, the "unrefined" aspect of it.
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Ok, thanks for the tip. I never arranged my elements into categories, I just considered them tied together.
What exactly do you mean by wind is dynamic?
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Happy to help. ^..^
Change, essentially.
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Thanks! I've added more to my list of elements, so I now have 36!
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Lolz, and if I get time and a little more help, I'll be adding more to the list.
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How many d'you intend to add to this list of elements?
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As many as there are in this world.
I created two neutral elements specificly for the story though, so I could explain why my character Saodus can't fight. That element is Armor.
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The element of Armor...gotta say, I haven't heard of that one...
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The reason I put that as an element (I know it's a bit unorthadox) is because I had to have a reason for his inablilty to fight. He can protect himself with pure energy, but he can't use that energy as an offense. He's also not very strong, hence the reason he can't fight.
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Then just give him the "element" of "Aura", or some such. (3 But up to you, whether you want to put a whole lot of elements into a story.
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I do want alot of elements in the story, but I want ones that won't sound rediculous the minute you hear them. /:
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Like the element of phlegm?
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I've never heard that one before....
But with the help of my dad, I now have 42. And let me explain Armour better. Armour is an element where you take raw energy and create a physical barrier out of it. This can only be used as a means of defense, but if you play around with the rules a bit more, you can actually use it as a type of offense, like I said before. You can encase your hand in say, stone, to protect your hand and wrist when swining a punch. The requirement for using it as an offense, is that you have to have no other offense. Hense the reason my character Saodus can't fight. To use his element effectively, he specificly does not train his body enough to fight with.
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Like I said, it sounds more like "Aura", if anything. This could be classified as an element of an element, if that makes any sense to you.
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No, that makes sense. Thanks for helping anyway!
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Cool!Nice picture and nice idea 
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yo man nice job!
em would the middle one also stands for gravity as well? and stratos for sound/sonic? just a question
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Thanks! ^..^
Hmm...I hadn't given much thought to gravity being an element. From my experience, gravity is under the Darkness umbrella, but it could also be under the Terra umbrella. Or it could also be in the Void umbrella. >..> Sound/sonic I hadn't considered an element, either, but it could go under the Stratos, as you said. I could make the argument that gravity and sound/sonic are just effects and would go under their respective umbrellas, but then again, there's a few aspects in this wheel where I've included other effects that could also be assumed as part of another element.
You've given me something to think about. ^..^;
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np 
- iam just being mystical and all - but iam cool with whatever you have here
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Wow that is REALLY good!
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Thanks a bunch!
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whoah dude, i was thinking, am i allow to adopt the idea of your element grid for this little project i'm making, as long as i keep you in the creds? ^^
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Please do. =3 I'm glad I was able to assist in this project of yours, and would like to see what becomes of it. ^..^ Thank you.
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Which catorgory thing does lightning/storm fall under. Sorry if I sound confusing. Like is it one of those child elements or something? Btw I love this! It's great help for my comic ^^
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Lightning/storm falls under the "child element" category, being the combination of Air and Fire (cold front meets warm front). No problemo. :3
I'm glad it's helping! ^..^ Always good to hear that my concepts assist others, hehehe.
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Love everything except for one thing: WTF is terra and stratus?!?!
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Thanks: "Terra" is an elemental balance of "Static", where all is in perfect balance - neither good nor bad - and doesn't change. Aether is the elemental balance of "Dynamic" - again, neither good nor bad - where change occurs.
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i thought Terra wuz latin for Earth
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It is. In this diagram, "Terra" is an umbrella term for all that is the earth.
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is there any element you didn't represent here that u know of? because i'm working on this story and i'm trying to find out about as many elements as i can.
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One could think of any aspect of life and make it an element ("life" and/or "death" itself could be an "element"). If I were to add more elements...I dunno, I think 13 covers a broad enough area. Instead of "elements", you could also make "attributes" that would accompany an "element" (i.e., "dragon" or "dog", etc.)
Regardless of how many elements you have, you'll want to make sure they're all balanced with each other. Thinking of it, the array I have here is much like a mirror balance arrangement, in that each element can be canceled out by a direct opposite (fire x water, etc.). Another arrangement would be an cyclical balance, like the 5 Chinese elements; essentially, elements don't cancel each other out, but create a cycle of strengths and weaknesses. Or an array that can contribute both ideas; mine can do so.
Unless you want to make the elements like the periodic table, where they all just exist together, or some such. There isn't a clear balance, I don't think.
How many d'you have so far?
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uhh...13. yeah, i coulsn't think much past the four basics, viod, life and death, so you're chart deffinetly helped me out.
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Did you think of all of these yourself or did you read it somewhere. Because I've been doing alot of refining and theorizing about the elements and I'd love to compare notes.
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Umm....well....most of them I theorized m'self, but I guess most of it also came from external sources, just picking them up from different places, ya'know? Still, I'd like to compare notes, send me a note as we'll compare. ^..^
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