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