Elements of Magic

[Gene L.D. Ryoko]

plant and wood are virtualy the same thing.

chaos,plasma,and space are good elements. and isn't sulfur a scientific element.

and whats the Q one and Aethrer

[Dark Navy]

How about the Ice element, I don't see it in the list.

[dragonpaw]

Lesse, I'll be doing the elements, here...

Air -- Fine.
Fire -- Great! .. Err, fine.
Plant -- Plant would, really, be more of an off-shoot of life. Plant life isn't fully an inanimate thing.
Water -- Fine.
Earth -- Fine.
Wood -- Read plant.
Stone -- Iffy, sort of like earth or metal/crystal.
Electricity -- Fine.
Night/Day -- or Dark/Light -- Dark/Light, which would, essentially, be a single element.
Life -- A bit iffy, but fine.
Death -- Same as life, mostly.
Love -- This is really just an emotion, not really an element. But many would like to disagree.
Aether -- I recall reading about this... I think I'd give this a 'fine, though a bit iffy'.
Void -- Fine, pretty good, too. I use this in some of my element charts for larger scale stories with plots exclusively revolving around elements.
Quintessence -- Depending on your definition, this is basically the same as aether. Iffy.
Spirit -- A Pagan element. I'd say fine, but it all depends on the plots of the story.
Metal -- I'd pair this with 'Crystal' under the same heading, as they are both, essentially, created in the same way.
Sulphur -- ... This is a periodic element. Nein.
Time -- This is a pretty good one, too.

Here's the elements I commonly use:
Fire
Water
Air
Earth
Metal/Crystal
Ice
Lightning
Light/Dark

Life
Death

Eternity
Void

I still need to think more on the final two categories. So, yeah. It all depends on your plot. My suggestion is to use elements that 'click' together. Don't, say, throw in Sulphur, Time, Love, and Aether as the main elements. That wouldn't make too much sense. xD

[Yoshiken]

The Element of Surprise! (XD)

[Teo]

Oooo... this is a post I like...

Basic elements (see them everywhere):

Air
Water
Earth
Fire

Gotten from a game:

Smoke
Shadow
Blood
Ice

Poke'mon:

Electric
Physical
Plant
Psychic

Articles (from earlier game):

Mage's book
Holy/balanced/unholy book
Staff of magic
Battle staff of lava
Mystic staff of mud (don't ask)
Master's wand
Mystic robes
Robes of infinity
Boots of lightness
Blue cape (ah...those go good)
Cape of legends
Energy storing rune-stones
Blank runes

Articles (that I hear about):

Crystal balls
Scrying orbs
Enchanted jewelery
Enchanted weaponry (behind you!!!)
Smoke bomb

That was fun

[Teo]

Alrighty, I can explain them:

Smoke - Smoke makes it hard to breathe, anyone under this influence might feel like they're slowly dying from an intoxination... The spell itself tends to be used by darker magic users, but anyone can learn it. If you were to fight with it, your enemy could no longer breathe except for toxins. A facemask would help I guess.

Shadow - Shadow is a spell that involves a deep magic, and messing with the other persons body and soul. Getting hit by one of these will result in a massive power drainage. Dark magic users love this, especially against those who fight hand to hand and reducing their power to a low level. Again, anyone is free to learn. If the target escapes, the damage is not permanent. Its power weakens with light-based attacks, but light-based attacks are weakened by it too.

Blood - Toying with life. Blood magic drains peoples endurance, stamina, and even their life which can then be handed to anyone else. All magic users consider this useful, except those who are 'pure' and 'free of darkness'. But, everyone can learn. Blood has no true weakness... unless the enemy is soul-less and bloodless. Most likely a dummy.

Ice - Cold and powerful, usually targets are frozen as an after effect. The opponent is just... frozen stiff, movement seems difficult, ice may form in unwanted places, and possibly encoating the enemy in ice if the spell is strong enough. Don't get frostbite! Again, dark mages like this one, even for decoration sometimes. You'd probably use it in combination with shadow to weaken, stop, then freeze your opponent into an ice block. A weakness would be an enemy made of ice.

Physical - Itself it really isn't an element... it's just plain attacking however you can, not really magic. I guess you can say chucking hard items at people is physical. Counter with ice, shadow, blood, or smoke... or pretty much a whole lot of them.

Psychic - Poke'mon use it all the time!! Telekinesis, psy beams, things in that nature. Who can use it, who knows? May be useful if your enemy is using a weapon to shake it from them. Counter with...I honestly don't know! Other psychic abilities probably.

Hmmm... hard to go deep in a few, but I think I got through.

Another element I hear of it "holy" or "nature" but I'm not entirely sure I can describe those. Personally, I just think air, fire, earth, water, blood and shadow are good enough for me.

[UMS Author Lava]

Haven't checked the other posts, but you forgot Ice and maybe Poison.
And I'm guessing that "Wood" would be "Nature", like attacking with power-packed flowers and such. That's what some of my characters use, including Princess Daisy.

[Gene L.D. Ryoko]

chaos: does what it's name implies and cause chaos,more of a tactition element causes status alignments. An example spell is anti-relfect,which bounces the spell back,but in the opposite element

plasma: this element uses lasers and is like the fire element. it also has a few healing spells such as clean(heals certaint alignments) and clot(heals character). example spell is death star,which causes a super nova on an enemy.

space: involves celestrial bodys,or in other words:stars, planets,moons,ect. also uses spells like float,free fall,and star storm.

[Yoshi4ever]

Ethernal
Spirit
Dimension
Moon
Arcane
Nova
Demonic
summon
rage
Fusion
Possesion/manipulation
Anti-matter
Leach (life steal)
Buff
Enchant
Enhance
Shock

All the new ones i can think of for now

[Teo]

lavayosh said:

Haven't checked the other posts, but you forgot Ice and maybe Poison.
And I'm guessing that "Wood" would be "Nature", like attacking with power-packed flowers and such. That's what some of my characters use, including Princess Daisy.

I named ice and nature...

Some of these I'll have to dis-agree to being actual elements. Things like chaos are...not really elements, chaos is dis-order, I don't see how spells could cause dis-order unless they were to take out a leader or something. Usually chaos is caused by other spelling.

I'm also going to have to dis-agree with myself, ice is water in another form. And plasma is a state which the hydrogen atoms in a star turn into under the heat and pressure. You hear of plasma screen TVs and maybe plasma beams and stuff from places, but plasma seems more of a mechanical type of thing.

Plant/wood/nature, kinda the same thing.

[Graedius]

If you ignore Muffins as an element, you shall feel the horrid cursed wrath of a thousand Digi-Yoshis for generations to come!

[teh yoshi]

Magical Cheesy Goodness.

Inside joke.

[teh yoshi]

Whoa, calm down...
There's a difference between spam and just plain joking around. We can't be dead serious ALL the time. Spam would be something without meaning or input.
It hasn't been cited for spam because I only posted it like 2 minutes ago.
The thing behind this Magical Cheesy Goodness is that long ago, these boards used to have an RPG making section, where its purpose was to fully develop an RPG that included members of these boards that wanted to participate. Well, on the rules for signing up, I believe it was Graedius that just made the little joke that if you wanted to choose your magical ability, you can possess anything, and from water, fire, to Magical Cheesy Goodness. Hence why it's an inside joke, because many new people here wouldn't get it.

And yeah, loosen up, heh. No need to get all jumpy over a simple joke. I mean not for it to be spam.

EDIT:

yoshicreator said:

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Besides, what's that second post of yours in this thread supposed to mean, with a stand alone period? Is that not spam?

[Teo]

Yes, I think it is... wow, I never thought THOSE specific two would do it! (No really, I'm being sarcastic... if any mods are going to spam, it's them )

Back about elements... lesse... if you're going to want to know what elements to pick, you're gonnna have to shrink your list to something... well, as in resembling elements are erased from the list leaving only one version of it (if you include ice and water, toss ice and keep water).

[Not-Garr]

How dare you forget the element known as Funk! Or Soul! Also known as Music!

[Graedius]

There's a big difference between posts with a meaning behind, that are in some way related to the topic at hand, and spam. You've obviously not seen enough spam in your lifetime to classify that as spam.

[dragonpaw]

No idea if anyone's mentioned them before, but:
Gravity
Sound
Illusion
Dimension

It's great that you'll limit your list.

~~~

And, YoshiCreator, it's nothing to really take note of and be bugged about. Those two were just trying to be funny. And they were. I chuckled. Even though I chuckle a lot. Hee, hee, ho, ho.

Back on track, there is a difference between spam and something meant to be humorous. Spam would be a few words to a word long (actually, it could be a couple paragraphs or pages; relevancy and intent all play a role here) without any relevancy to the topic, with no input or intent. These two, however, posted something pertaining to an element that was, indeed, funny. And they had the intent of making people laugh. Therefore, I don't really judge it as spam. It has solid intent, it does somewhat pertain to the topic at hand, and you already have had a lot of element suggestions. Does everything have to be really serious, especially after you have recieved serious input?

And about you being 'upset'... Do bear in mind that tones are different to the reader. What you may not interperet as sounding upset can very well be interpreted that way by someone else. I thought you sounded a bit irritated/upset, myself, hah. It might also be interesting to note that no one ever stated you were 'steaming mad'. That was something you interpreted yourself.

I like explaining things. It's fun.

[Gene L.D. Ryoko]

nature: this one throws wood and plant out the door as it uses forest and animal related spells even has a few summons. an example spell is nightmare vine which can put someone asleep with a black vine,or ravage: summons a bear to strike an enemy with claws,has a chance of stealing an item

[Yoshi4ever]

aright i'll do my best on the description

Ethernal- Allows the user to "shift" between a spirit and physical being.
Dimension- Allows manipulation of time and space
Moon- a mix between light and dark
Arcane- Energy (somewhat a mix between moon, ice, and energy)
Nova- sends out powerfull blasts of different elements
Demonic- summons demons
summon- summons elementals
rage- causes caster to go beserk
Fusion- combines elements into powerfull combos
Possesion/manipulation- takes control of enemies
Anti-matter- uses "nothingness" to annihalte foes
Leach (life steal)- sucks the life out of an enemy
Buff- increases physical strength
Enchant- enchants items magically
Enhance- magically enhancess physical and mental strength
Shock- shocks the enemy with different elements

[Moot]

I'd say most of those were more Skills or Attributes, more than actual elements.

A whole bunch of those could be lumped into one Element, to me is seems like a few of those overlap each other in terms of attacks, and whatnot.