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	Method	Primary Occupation	Primary Species
Yo'ongo	Succulents and cacti			Peresk (Plant Folk)
Wedi'i rannu	Natural connections and connectedness, ecology, the way nature and the cosmos work together			Ysbryd (Spirit Folk)
Vulcanos	Volcanic power, lava, magma			Magma Folk (Terata)
Viridian aether	Natural lawP, natural order		Druid (Druid)	Viridianite (Elemental)
Vik	Inlets, lagoons, and other bodies of water intruding into land			Rlagola (Terata)
Vernal energy	Spring, rebirth, times of warming			Vernalian (Plant Folk)
Vegrandis	Elemental microbes		Hypermicrobist (Scientist)	Festucam (Insubstantiate)
Vapor power	Steam, vapors			Ssthesseme (Insubstantiate)
Vamvaki	Elemental fabric, natural fibers and fabrics			Paradofasm (Metahuman)
Tykva vlast	Conifers, the taiga			Sushenny (Plant Folk)
Ts'ekh	Mud and clay			Graun Mekmek (Construct)
True shadow	Elemental shadow and darkness		Shadowweaver (Weaver)	Nightgaunt (Terata)
Torrentia	Rain, falling water			Shuddh (Akhoata)
Tmakikan	Elemental harvest		Ohapitu (Cook)	Giant (Spirit)
Tidal energy	The tides of water and wind			Okoru (Metahuman)
The Deeps	The depths of the oceans			Dhothiggao (Terata)
The Bright	Elemental light		Luminaire (Guide)	Crystal Folk (Terata)
Temporal aether	Time		Chrononaut (Transporter)	Watcher (Insinsi)
Tectonis	Tectonic plates, seismic activity, geological regions			Glebouan (Terata)
Taakte	Elemental movement, gas			Anemoi (Spirit)
T'kiir				Turbopsionist (Metahuman)
Suflet	Elemental souls			Alrune (Construct)
Sonic aether	Elemental sound		Sounder (Musician)	Vox (Insubstantiate)
Solacore	The core of the sun, the source of all energy			Masdarian (Insubstantiate)
Sirae	Elemental war, the violence of nature		Muharib (Warrior)	Napash (Terata)
Salinis	Salt		(Cook)	Salt Folk (Spirit Folk)
Sahar al'dukhan	Ash, embers, burning remnants			Karahtuchu (Deneg)
Sadgh	Elemental truth			Javdaneh (Inmortal)
Ruych	Elemental silence			Dehathus (Terata)
Roshen	Elemental glass		(Glazier)	Darqshan (Construct)
River energy	Rivers, streams, and flowing waters		Metapol (Investigator)	Servulian (Terata)
Qua ramah	Smoke			Smokeling (Insubstantiate)
Qeernariji	Stars and the cosmos		Plicator (Transporter)	Asterian (Alien)
Puuyutsu	Elemental blood			Celagar (Metahuman)
Prasinofos	Elemental plants and wood		Verdurist (Botanicist)	Green Folk (Plant Folk)
Pokapolo	Slope landscapes, cliffs, canyons, gullies, ravines, plateaus, rilles, rupes, and so on			Tupqar (Deneg)
Poarta	Elemental death, the afterlife, natural death, souls		Psychopomp (Guide)	Akh (Terata)
Phasic power	Energy of the phases of the moons			Phase Folk (Spirit Folk)
Parfum de marais	Wetlands, swamps, marshes, and so on		Bawmache (Ranger)	Hinkypunk (Insubstantiate)
Oceanic energy	Oceans and all their features		Naufragium (Shipwright)	Merfolk (Spirit)
Nzwara murazvo	Animals, fauna, and wilderness		Wildling (Wrangler)	Therian (Animal Folk)
Nyanja	Lakes, ponds, pools, enclosed bodies of water			Lake Folk (Terata)
Nova power	Novae, supernovae, kilonovae, hypernovae			Emissus (Insubstantiate)
Nounou	Galaxies and their features			Tasathorug (Alien)
Night energy	The night, sundown, twilight, dusk, gloaming, midnight			Ugriz (Terata)
Ngaregot	Natural chemicals			Awan (Insubstantiate)
Montane energy	Mountains, hills, and similar landcapes			High Folk (Spirit Folk)
Monsoon energy	The wet season, monsoons, torrential rains			Alisngaw (Deneg)
Mist energy	Mists, fog, haze, and elemental dreams		Mistweaver (Weaver)	Ceoltire (Spirit Folk)
Ma'dhahabi	The sun, solar magic, energy, elemental plasma		Parhelion (Dancer)	Kokeb (Metahuman)
Lunar aether	The moons, cycles, reflectiveness, features of the moons, natural satellies		Moonwitch (Witch)	Sora (Akhoata)
Liwa	Coastal regions			Founga (Spirit Folk)
Livadi	Grasslands, grass, reeds, horses		Sussoror (Musician)	Centaur (Spirit)
Lahab al'qalb	Elemental fire		Incendium (Esotericist)	Ka'ar (Elemental)
Kuvva	Fundamental forces, gravity, electromagnetism, strong and weak interaction, decay, bonding			Wakuda (Insubstantiate)
Kiiric yihi	Elemental wind and air, gas		Magonian (Esotericist)	Sylph (Elemental)
Kazaddarean	Elemental earth and stone, solidity		Earth Mage (Esotericist)	Genomos (Elemental)
Kardiaroi	Elemental emotion, raw emotion, instinct			Parapuna (Metahuman)
Jingburom	Respect for nature			Nongngeit (Metahuman)
Jalavayu	Climate, climate zones			Silaannaq (Insubstantiate)
Isiphelo	Elemental destruction, wildfire, natural disasters			(Spirit)
Hvittdogg	Ice, snow, frost, cold, stasis		Grylukert (Musician)	Frostling (Akhoata)
Huldran energy	Forest magic			Forest Folk (Terata)
Hroa	Elemental body			Carrhoe (Construct)
Hoikwa	Elemental hunt, predatory living things			Mgeli (Terata)
Ho'okuma	Islands, tropics		Lawaii'a (Fisher)	Rychelley (Terata)
Heliolux	The heliosphere			Khariji (Metahuman)
Hasken fure	Flowers, flowering plants		Flowergirl (Witch)	Fluer (Plant Folk)
Harmattan energy	The dry season			Derek'ineti (Insubstantiate)
Hamasat	Deserts, aridity, drylands		Samaaeat (Musician)	Anzilaq (Terata)
Graha	Orbital bodies, planets, meteors, satellites, comets, planetary rings, asteroids, and so on			Eliyana (Alien)
Genesis	Elemental creation		Aedificarian (Artisan)	Shemir (Insinsi)
Galmu	Elemental Names, how one fits into nature, ecology			Parbata (Alien)
G'hothaaul'ugots	Elemental fungi		Mycologer (Esotericist)	Myconian (Fungal Folk)
Fysikochart	Elemental paper			Neraida (Spirit Folk)
Fulmenic power	Lightning and thunder			Fulmenian (Metahuman)
Fiinta	Elemental spirits, stories of nature and the world and the cosmos			Manifatari (Fungal Folk)
Enkuku	Elemental ancestry, taxonomy, tree of life			Myrrean (Akhoata)
Diurnal power	The day, dawn, noon			Dawn Folk (Spirit Folk)
Dendral power	Wood			Dendral (Elemental)
Darian energy	The seas			Meerian (Metahuman)
Coronal energy	The sun's corona			Quri (Spirit Folk)
Conflueverant	Elemental water		Blue Mage (Esotericist)	Undine (Elemental)
Cavernic power	Caves and caverns and the subterra			Zahar (Terata)
Cascadian power	Waterfalls			Cascadian (Deneg)
Bryonian energy	Moss			Bryonian (Plant Folk)
Brumal energy	Winter, the cold months		Caroler (Musician)	Holly Folk (Spirit Folk)
Birtimane	Cosmic movement and positions, orbital bodies, asteroids, meteors		Mahalu (Transporter)	Meekita (Alien)
Bijalee	Weather, patterns, climate		Tempestarii (Channeler)	Mahpiyatuwawa (Insubstantiate)
Bidliet	Seasons, the changing of the seasons			Mibdula (Metahuman)
Bailaohu jinghua	Elemental metals		Shimisi (Smith)	Living Metal (Construct)
Autumnal energy	Autumn, the cooling months, decay, decline		(Cook)	Hrupkaj (Deneg)
Aurora energy	The aurora			Auroran (Akhoata)
Ashar	Elemental life		Vitalist (Healer)	Elf (Spirit)
Anumun	Elemental chaos, the birth of the cosmos and the world		Mahra (Witch)	Dumu (Akhaota)
Allagi	Elemental change, the natural flow of nature			Atud (Alien)
Algic power	Green algae			Phycean (Plant Folk)
Ahkeetah	Atmosphere and its layers			Exegersian (Insubstantiate)
Aestate	Summer, the warm months		Acorn Warrior (Warrior)	Oak Folk (Spirit Folk)