Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26021514-20160504041212/@comment-26021514-20160508002326

Well, I suppose I was being vague by what I need this for. I've been trying to devise a story in which one of the main things that is a focal point is a select few people on a planet (and by a select few, I mean maybe a hundred or so) have one of four different tools: weapons, armor, magic devices, or familiars. And these things are based on elements, specifically Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Metal, Nature (because I did try simply Planet before, but found I gave myself more elbow room with Nature), Ice, Cloud, the element I'm trying to figure out in this topic, Lightning, Light, and Magma. Of these elements, Earth, Water, Fire, and Air are the pure elements. Then, it goes out into what I've been calling sub-elements, derivatives of the pure elements. Mixed Sub-elements were Nature, between Earth and Water, Cloud, between Water and Air, Lightning, between Air and Fire, and Magma, between Fire and Earth. And then the Pure Sub-elements, Metal for Earth, Ice for Water, Light for Fire, and... I've been struggling with air.

I've been basing all these ideas on what seems like a natural result of these things. And the thing is, I'm also taking this a different way. If someone, say, has access to a Fire Weapon, they don't have any powers related to Magma or Light, as those are the elements I associate with more with Fire. All of the elements are their sole thing, unless there is purposely a sort of lesser element within, like Sound being grouped with Air, and I group Smoke with Fire, and basically anything earthy like Sand or Crystal is grouped under Earth. What I mean is, the elements are a little more broad than one might typically think. But finding a natural step-up from Air is a little difficult, I feel.

One idea I've been juggling in my head over the past couple of days was delegating Lightning to the Pure Sub-element for Air, but then I would need a Mixed Sub-element inbetween Air and Fire. And other than something like Smoke, I can't think of anything.

Thoughts?