Elemental Magic

Elemental magic is magic from nature, from the cosmos, from the elements of the world. They derive from uncultivated, unsettled, untouched nature, mostly, from the fundamental, from the environmental. Any aspect of nature may be represented in it and wielded by those who are friends to nature or the cosmos, who seek to protect, preserve, or life in symbiosis with it. It is sometimes split between Ordinal and Non-Ordinal elements.

Ordinal and Non-Ordinal

Ordinal elements vary by culture, but they represent what people see as the most fundamental aspects of nature. In the imperial core, this is often reduced to four elements - earth, fire, water, and air. In the southeast, it is often earth, fire, water, metal, and wood. Other places include light, darkness, life, death, the cosmos, time, natural law, elemental chaos, fungi, animals, or microbes. Non-ordinal elements are anything not included in a culture's list of ordinal elements.

Elemental Names

There are many ways to wield elemental magic, but ultimately, it derives from the Names of elemental concepts. Some are much more common than others. Below are the most common Names, the concepts they represent, and the commonest methods used to wield them.

Name	Concept	Sphere	Description	Method	Primary Occupation	Primary Species	Notable Subsaspects
Esh-Kuku	Ancestry	Fossil	The past imprinted into the stone of the world, memories and echoes of nature recorded in the geographic record			Smaranashakti	Geology
Esh-Kilim	Animal	Animal	Natural animals, the kingdom of life known as animalia	Bonding with animals via behavioral mimicry and ritual dances	Wildling	Therian
Esh-Ush	Blood	Prey	Prey animals; those that are hunted; those that pay in blood	Ritual hunt (as the prey) culminating in blood magic		Taturanu
Esh-Ni	Body	Mud	Mud and soil, the body of the world	Soaking in mud, being buried in soil, absorbing and wearing dirt on the naked body	Mud Mage	Graun Mekmek
Esh-Kam	Change	Evolution	How nature and life change - evolution via natural selection or physical shifting			Atud
Esh-Idim	Chaos	Chaos	Cosmic chaos, the primordial essence from which nature and the universe sprang	Drinking liquid chaos - anumun - and channeling it via special rituals	Mahra	Dumu
Esh-Addir	Connection	Seasons	The connection between phases of time, the relationship between cosmic bodies and how they shift in time			Mibdula
Esh-Dim	Creation	Nova	The power of cosmic creation, the forging of matter in the furnace of the universe	Using rudimentary tools to spark the power of nova within every act of creation	Aedificarian	Shemir
Esh-Namush	Death	Death	Natural death	Communing with death and guiding the souls of the dead into the afterlife via magical keys	Psychopomp	Akh
Esh-Gul	Destruction	Volcano	The destructive power of eruption, the heat and acid and smoke and ash, the magma and lava forcing its way from the earth	Using magical hooks to draw magma from the ground	Lawai'a	Magma Folk
Esh-Mamu	Dream	Mist	The haze of unreality found within deep mist and fog	Weaving mist into special fabrics that allow one to interact with dreams	Mistweaver	Ceotire
Esh-Urash	Earth	Earth	The soil and stone, the mud and jewels, the mountains and caves, all things of earth	Channeling the power of earth from stones and jewels after connecting to a specific stone	Petrologer	Genomos
Esh-Ri	Exchange	Chemical	The atomic and molecular processes, exchanging of particles in natural chemistry		Hyperchemist	Awan
Esh-Gada	Fabric	Moss	The natural blanket that forms in green places, moss in all its forms		Moss Mage	Bryonian
Esh-Shuba	Faith	Respect	Respect for nature	Showing and living a deep respect for nature, then bonding with elementals to channel their power	Druid	Nongngeit
Esh-Izi	Fire	Fire	Natural fire, flame and ash and ember, heat	Seducing flame, drinking it, then breathing it out	Incendium	Ka'ar
Esh-Katar	Fungus	Fungus	Natural fungi of all kinds	Consuming and being consumed by natural fungi in order to become one with their magic	Mycologer	Myconian
Esh-Su	Glass	Glass	Natural glass	Breathing in natural glass, then blowing it out into new forms	Loab Saz	Darqshan
Esh-Gur	Harvest	Fruit	The harvest before agriculture, the gathered foods - fruit, nuts, plants, carrion	Ritual preparation of foraged foods	Ohapitu	Giant
Esh-Sha	Heart	Island	The coastal waters representing the ebb and flow of the heart, the islands themselves rising out as expressions of intensity	Communing with the island via one's own heart, synchronizing heartbeats, and feeling the island's power, then carving its materials into special boats	Carver	Parapuna
Esh-Taka	Hunt	Hunt	Predatory animals; those that hunt; those that take the blood	Bonding too a predator animal, drinking its blood, becoming it		Mgeli
Esh-Sheg	Ice	Ice	Natural ice and cold, frost and snow	Singing the snow and ice	Snowsinger	Frostling
Esh-Tila	Life	Life	Natural life, all living things	Channeling one's natural lifeforce into others via specially crafted ropes	Vitalist	Elf
Esh-Nu	Light	Light	Natural light from any source	Wielding the power of natural light via magical, natural mirrored glass	Luminaire	Crystal Folk
Esh-Kug	Metal	Metal	Natural metals, unforged, unshaped, ore and fragments	Communing with raw metals and learning from them what they want to be shaped into	Shimisi	Living Metal
Esh-Didi	Microbe	Microbe	Natural microbes of any kind - protists, bacteria, archaea, microscopic plants, animals, or fungi		Microbist	Festucam
Esh-Sag	Mind	Atmosphere	The layers of the atmosphere as the world's mind			Exegersian
Esh-Dub	Movement	Force	The fundamental forces that move the universe - gravity, electromagnetism, strong interaction, weak interaction			Okugatta
Esh-Mu	Name	Nebula	Nebulae as the identity of the universe; the cosmic dust that is a formation of the universe before it takes separate parts			Shabbura
Esh-Di	Order	Nature	Natural law	Living and respecting natural law, enforcing it, and being granted nature's power to do that		Viridianite
Esh-Rara	Paper	Wood	Paper before paper; the raw materials of paper; wood	Connecting to natural wood, learning what it wishes to be shaped into, then shaping it	Dendrologer	Dendral
Esh-Ku	Paradigm	Elemental	Elemental energy in all its forms; all things natural and cosmic		Matriadoman	Sagana
Esh-Uhus	Pattern	Weather	Weather and its patterns, climate, storms		Tempestarii	Mahpiyatuwawa
Esh-Zag	Place	Orbit	Cosmic position defined by what it revolves around - orbital positions, and those bodies that orbit one another		Mahalu	Meekita
Esh-Uu	Plant	Plant	Natural plants of all kinds		Verdurist	Green Folk
Esh-Ud	Plasma	Sun	The sun and its natural plasma, the light and power of the sun as the source of energy	Positioning oneself within the sunlight and redirecting it	Parhelion	Kokeb
Esh-Gissu	Shadow	Shadow	Natural darkness	Taking one's own shadow and forming it into a needle, then using that needle to sew other natural darkness into fabric	Shadowweaver	Nightgaunt
Esh-Sig	Silence	Desert	The quiet of the desert, the shifting whisper of the sands	Hearing the whispers of the sands and whispering back	Samaaeat	Anzilaq
Esh-Zi	Soul	Lightning	Nature's soul coalesced into electricity, lightning and thunder	Letting the lightning into one's soul, then channeling it out through slender blades	Ponenene	Fulmenian
Esh-Gu	Sound	Sound	Natural sound of all kinds	Capturing natural sounds in a jar, then pulling them out with a tuning fork	Sounder	Vox
Esh-Gidim	Spirit	Flower	Magic forming in nature in the form of flowering plants; an expression of magic that is external in the form of blossoms	Ritually calling the spirits of flowers via festivals, then gathering them and letting them protect you	Flowergirl	Fluer
Esh-Mul	Star	Cosmos	The cosmos itself and the stars within it	Reading the positions of the stars and learning from them	Astrologer	Asterian
Esh-Usudra	Time	Time	Natural time, time on the scale of the cosmos and nature	Using technology to control or travel through time	Chrononaut	Watcher
Esh-Itud	Trinity	Moons	The three moons of Shem or the moons of any other world	Attuning to a moon's cycles and using rituals to channel them	Moonwitch	Sora
Esh-Zidug	Truth	Root	The roots of nature; the roots of plants as metaphorical root of all natural truths	Rooting oneself into the ground and staying there for a long time until one is connected to other roots	Wurtwarian	Radixian
Esh-Gud	War	Smoke	The residue of conflict in nature - smoke and ash forming in the wake of natural flames	Embracing nature's conflicts and breathing the smoke, holding it, then releasing it when needed	Muharib	Smokeling
Esh-Aa	Water	Water	Natural water in all its forms	Nearly drowning, communing with the water, and then becoming part of it	Blue Mage	Undine
Esh-Imi	Wind	Wind	Natural wind and air	Capturing winds into magical satchels and releasing them	Magonian	Sylph