Fyri
Inkling
Idk, I think it'd be interesting to see what everyone here does with elemental magic included in their stories.
I'm currently writing a fight scene and had to remind myself what I had decided for my earth elementalists. My first (awful, terrible, cringe cringe cringe) draft had an attack with a "steel blade," and I wasn't sure if I had decided my earth elementalists could manipulate steel.
Then, I remembered my "pure fire" elementalists are able to create a special type of lava that then cools into a special type of obsidian that only a fire elementalist could affect. Earth elementalists cannot manipulate obsidian created from a fire elementalist's lava, because the obsidian there has a signature attached to the lava affinity.
However, this implies that earth elementalists can manipulate natural obsidian, a glass. Then my mind wandered around what else this would/could/should mean for my earth elementalists. Then I thought about the joke that ice is technically, scientifically, a rock. Well, I'm not going to do that. (Maybe. *entertains idea* Could be fun.)
Humored by the train of thought, I wondered... What kind of fun do my fellow writers of elemental magic have in their magic systems? Do you lean more into science or, er, magic magic when crafting your system?
Bonus question: What inspired you to write with elemental magic?
I'm currently writing a fight scene and had to remind myself what I had decided for my earth elementalists. My first (awful, terrible, cringe cringe cringe) draft had an attack with a "steel blade," and I wasn't sure if I had decided my earth elementalists could manipulate steel.
Then, I remembered my "pure fire" elementalists are able to create a special type of lava that then cools into a special type of obsidian that only a fire elementalist could affect. Earth elementalists cannot manipulate obsidian created from a fire elementalist's lava, because the obsidian there has a signature attached to the lava affinity.
However, this implies that earth elementalists can manipulate natural obsidian, a glass. Then my mind wandered around what else this would/could/should mean for my earth elementalists. Then I thought about the joke that ice is technically, scientifically, a rock. Well, I'm not going to do that. (Maybe. *entertains idea* Could be fun.)
Humored by the train of thought, I wondered... What kind of fun do my fellow writers of elemental magic have in their magic systems? Do you lean more into science or, er, magic magic when crafting your system?
Bonus question: What inspired you to write with elemental magic?