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The basic elemental system for the world of Elysion. Seven elements because I decided on seven party members.

The world of Elysion is an arc in the life of Yamada Tarou, where he and some middle-school friends end up being sucked into a generic Japanese/JRPG fantasy world to defeat a great evil. Time flows faster in Elysion, etc. etc., and they got back OK, and Yamada Tarou had yet another story under his belt (where he was a side-character again, which serves him fine). In the present day, he uses a bunch of stuff he learned or got in Elysion to do whatever needs to be done, be it vampire-hunting, keeping friends alive when alien princesses fall in love with them, or fighting in one of the gazillions of secret underground martial arts tournaments that seem to spawn like mushrooms. That sort of world, that sort of side-character.

Anyhow, I've been working on Elysion itself too much: a map is in the works, but I'm stuck in doing mountains, so I procrastinated with an elemental system today.

Seven elements, in two parts: the primordial immaterial elements are Fire, Silver and Ink, material elements are Air, Wood (or Blood), Water and Earth.

Fire represents change, transformation, time, creation and destruction
Silver is space, matter, and the senses
Ink is identity, language, separation and unity, distinguishing, lightning, borders, limits, differences. It's the anti-Tang (technical term) that keeps everything from merging into oneness and oblivion.

Air and Earth ascend from Silver, Wood and Water ascend from Fire. Air is space, Earth is matter, air is motion, Earth is stillness, etc. Wood is growth, Water is decay/destruction, wood is hunger, water is fulfilment, etc. These sorts of things. Ink keeps everything together and separate.

Each party member has a specific thematic element: Yamada Tarou is an alchemist, so he is Fire: he also acts as a catalyst for character development, learning etc. The Leader is Silver: light in darkness, tactical matters, home. Girl with artillery magic is Ink, girl with healing powers Wood, Tank/Bodyguard has Earth, dual-wielding damage dealer girl Water, axe-and-arrow ranger/rogue boy Air.

Description
The basic elemental system for the world of Elysion. Seven elements because I decided on seven party members.

The world of Elysion is an arc in the life of Yamada Tarou, where he and some middle-school friends end up being sucked into a generic Japanese/JRPG fantasy world to defeat a great evil. Time flows faster in Elysion, etc. etc., and they got back OK, and Yamada Tarou had yet another story under his belt (where he was a side-character again, which serves him fine). In the present day, he uses a bunch of stuff he learned or got in Elysion to do whatever needs to be done, be it vampire-hunting, keeping friends alive when alien princesses fall in love with them, or fighting in one of the gazillions of secret underground martial arts tournaments that seem to spawn like mushrooms. That sort of world, that sort of side-character.

Anyhow, I've been working on Elysion itself too much: a map is in the works, but I'm stuck in doing mountains, so I procrastinated with an elemental system today.

Seven elements, in two parts: the primordial immaterial elements are Fire, Silver and Ink, material elements are Air, Wood (or Blood), Water and Earth.

Fire represents change, transformation, time, creation and destruction
Silver is space, matter, and the senses
Ink is identity, language, separation and unity, distinguishing, lightning, borders, limits, differences. It's the anti-Tang (technical term) that keeps everything from merging into oneness and oblivion.

Air and Earth ascend from Silver, Wood and Water ascend from Fire. Air is space, Earth is matter, air is motion, Earth is stillness, etc. Wood is growth, Water is decay/destruction, wood is hunger, water is fulfilment, etc. These sorts of things. Ink keeps everything together and separate.

Each party member has a specific thematic element: Yamada Tarou is an alchemist, so he is Fire: he also acts as a catalyst for character development, learning etc. The Leader is Silver: light in darkness, tactical matters, home. Girl with artillery magic is Ink, girl with healing powers Wood, Tank/Bodyguard has Earth, dual-wielding damage dealer girl Water, axe-and-arrow ranger/rogue boy Air.