Super-Strength for Earth.
Super-Speed for Wind.
Super-Intelligence for Water.
And our least favorite Captain Planet power for Fire.
Did you really need me to put "super" before those things that earth, wind, and water could symbolize?
edited 19th Mar '11 6:35:13 AM by MarkerMage
Thinking of ideas to use with a literary work that is meant to be WikiWalked through.Well, lightning has been associated with gods... but you'd probably want to avoid that symbolism if you want to have the elemental powers be balanced. If you want to have it have it's own symbolic power that is different, you could have wind get super agility instead of speed.
Thinking of ideas to use with a literary work that is meant to be WikiWalked through.Or if you call Wind Air or Sky instead, you could associate Lightning with the sky. Or you could take the Avatar route and associate it with fire, because our hominid ancestors saw how lightning could cause fires before they learned how to make their own.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."Because there are so many forces of nature, I think there shouldn't be just four/five elements. Since all forces of nature can be considered "elements", at least 50 would exist.
One "element" that I think would be neat to use is Metal; Metal doesn't get enough love as an independent element, when traditions like the ones from China clearly distinguished it.
Typical uses for metal would be molding and bending regular metal, or melting it. More unconventional uses would probably control a person by his/her blood iron and magnesium, or even force the blood out and kill the person. Another use would be to turn metals like magnesium into explosive fire.
Magnetism also concerns light and electricity, so a person controlling metal could in theory control those as well, and would be quite powerful.
A single phrase renders Christianity a delusional cult.HATE BECOME MY SWORD, DESPAIR MY MANTLE! IGNITE; O FIRE OF RAGE!
I. AM. DEATH!
Okay. Whew.
Fire: Passion, charisma, focus, ambition, sanguine and Choleric temperament, fast. Water: Focus, creativity, melancholy, high observartion skills, the brain, cynic observer, passive, The Puppetmaster, highly athletic. Earth: The traditional, the planner, punctuality, efficiency, phlegmatic, religion without mysticism, strength. Air: The power of spontaneity, free spirit, agent of change, reflexes & perfect aim.
Spirit: The master of spacetime, the Word that Does, the perfect balance, the unity.
Shadow: Keeper of secrets, knowledge and memory. Preserver.
I myself have a healer character who has mastery over water manipulation. Through some creative uses of water, he can...
- Create a makeshift flashlight using sunlight refracting through little ball of water.
- Administer serums intravenously by dissolving them though the patient's skin pores.
- Draw water out of someone's throat if they were drowned.
And so on.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."Water is traditionally associated with healing, but lightning powers could be used instead of a defibrillator and fire powers could be used to cauterize wounds.
And remember that freezing the body can buy some time to deal with injuries/poison/whatever.
I'd just use steam as boiling cover. Areas of high humidity would favor lighning powers.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.

Well, fire has been associated with passion, love, hate, and other emotions. So fire could be symbolic of the power of heart.
Thinking of ideas to use with a literary work that is meant to be WikiWalked through.If you take water in the ice direction, you could have its coldness be symbolic of the power of intelligence.
Earth is often associated with strength.
Air is often associated with speed/agility.
Does that help?