Questions tagged [classical-elements]
Classical elements typically refer to the pre-scientific concepts in Ancient Greece, of earth, water, air, fire, and aether.
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How believable is this disease model in my settings level of tech understanding?
Throughout history we humans have had multiple explanations for what causes different conditions or different infectious diseases. In the current era we understand infectious disease to be spread by ...
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What can cause a phalanx/shieldwall to drift left-wards
From my own reading of Thucydides, there appears to be a tendency for a phalanx formation to drift rightwards.
Before they had actually closed a thought occurred to Agis. All
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Elemental fighting that isn't actually elemental [closed]
By elements, I don't mean stuff on the periodic table.
I also don't mean the "classic" either. (Fire, water, air, earth)
In my world, the elements are fire, water, plant, and lightning (...
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How much light would pass through ice? [closed]
I am writing a book in which a civilisation lives in the remnants of a giant crater with a dome of ice over the top. This crater is huge, I'm talking about 200 square miles huge, so this is a very ...
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Is my magic system too convoluted for my own story? [closed]
I am planning an adventure story, focused in the fights, like a shonen anime. For that purpose I want to have a magic system similar to the the shaman's king one (fusing spirits with objects to give ...
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If There Are Fairies That can Control the Elements (Earth, water, fire, air, and aether), If They Got Into A War, How would it be like? [closed]
I'm writing a story about how there are fairies that can control the elements (Earth, water, fire, air, and space), and they got in a war, with Fire and Air and Earth on one side, and Water and Aether ...
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Gaining a Better Understanding on how Sand Powers Work
Awhile ago, I posted a question on this site asking how a group of air-controlling mages could use their powers to create and project lightning/electricity, sorta like an Avatar/LoK sub-bending art ...
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Is it possible for water to exist in fiery places?
I'm new here and know very little about chemistry.
For the sake of a story I'm building, especially with symbolism, I'm having a fire person and a water person coexist in a romance. However, I'm using ...
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Fire-themed enemy ideas [closed]
So I'm currently designing a video game lava level and I wanna fill it with fire-based animals that will essentially act as enemies for the players to interact with. So far I've currently got two ...
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Element that's a fusion of earth and wind? [closed]
I've been thinking of a fantasy setting with the four classical elements - fire, water, earth and wind - and secondary elements that are fusions of the classical elements.
Fire + water = decay/...
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How to Represent Platonic Solids in 2D Magic Circle Construction
My world's magic system employs numerous means to cast spells. These include chanting, activation of magic circles, rituals, etc. As the question suggests, my question today is on magic circles.
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Creating an elemental "fusion" scheme
I'm trying to work on an elemental scheme for the world that I'm building. I want to start with primary elements and then combine them to create "secondary" elements. The cycle is:
Fire < ...
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“Doodle God” universe with only one element?
The Greek philosopher Empedocles famously postulated that the four elements comprising all matter are Fire (F), Water (W), Earth (E), and Air (A). More recently, the video game “Doodle God” has turned ...
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Elemental magic - which is strong against which?
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In a fantasy world full of magic, i want the elemental forms of magic to be strong against one another in a symmetrical way (meaning every element has the same amount of weaknesses and ...
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What is the opposite of lightning? [closed]
I want to know what is the opposite of lightning. To give you some background, it has to be something that makes up a large aspect of the universe and cannot be anything in this list:
space, time, ...
