* TheDarkEye has six elements: Water, Fire, Air, Ore, Humus, and Ice. Ore is the "dead" part of the more common element Earth: Anything from sand to gemstones and refined metals, and one aspect is gravity; the opposite of air. Humus is the "living" part, from fertile topsoil to plants and animals, and associated with growth. Its opposite Ice includes cold and darkness, and is also associated with logic. The magic system is not limited to elemental spells, but any magic user specialising in elemental magic must chose one element as their main one, which makes spells based on it easier to learn, gives a slight bonus in negotiations with elementals, etc. There are corresponding penalties when dealing with the opposite element.
* In ''WarhammerFantasy'', the core lores of magic are based on this, and both High Magic and Dark Magic can be tied to this as well. Other forms of magic are not such good fits. Some of the Lores are straightforward, others more complicated.
** The Lore of Fire is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** The Lore of Shadow covers both literal [[CastingAShadow manipulation of darkness]], but is also the school of magic that specialises in creating illusions and PsychicPowers (of the [[YourMindMakesItReal "you hallucinate something so terrifying you die of fear"]] style).
** The Lore of Death is similar to {{Necromancer|Necromancy}}, in that it can contact souls and attack the life essence of the living, but it's not "conventional" NightOfTheLivingMooks style necromancy, and confusing the two is guaranteed to make an imperial practitioner [[BerserkButton very cross]]. Necromancy of the "classic" style, in this setting, is a form of Dark Magic powered by/focused through Death magic.
** The Lore of Metal covers [[ExtraOreDinary the manipulation and creation of metal]]. It's very good at wrecking (or enhancing) warmachines and armor, but it can also attack by creating metal projectiles or gouts of molten metal.
** The Lore of Beasts is the odd one out of the eight; it allows a caster to [[TheBeastmaster control animals and monsters]], to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting turn into one himself]], or to imbue allies with bestial traits (literally or metaphorically) to aid them in combat.
** The Lore of Life is the most diversely elemental of the lores; it combines manipulation of [[DishingOutDirt earth]] ''and'' [[MakingASplash water]] ''and'' [[GreenThumb plants]] ''and'' it covers {{healing|Hands}} as well.
** The Lore of the Heavens draws from all "celestial" aspects, meaning it mixes StarPower (in both the "divine the future" sense and the "hit your enemies with meteorite barrages" sense) with [[ShockAndAwe lightning magic]].
** The Lore of [[LightEmUp  Light]] can conjure beams of radiance to burn and destroy, but also specialises in exorcising evil spirits (making its attacks particularly potent against TheLegionsOfHell and TheUndead) and defensive conjurations.
** High Magic and Dark Magic, meanwhile, are AllYourPowersCombined versions of these eight forms; High Magic painstakingly weaves different magical energies together into a single coherent whole, making it roughly analogous to the Pure Magic element, whilst Dark Magic brutally crushes and mashes them together to create a highly unstable but very destructive form of BlackMagic.
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