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