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