Last week I talked about elements in fiction. Today, I’ll make that helpful . . . entertaining . . . I promised a list, so I’m going to do it. Don’t say I never deliver even if the end result makes dogs howl at the moon. Sorry. That’s my excuse for avoiding karaoke. Now on to the sane stuff.
- Have some rational reason for when one element will trump another. You can go easy with ‘water puts out fire’ or go different with ‘fire evaporates water’. This tends to be a ‘rock-paper-scissors’ type of deal to avoid one element being stronger than the other, but this is only for combat magic.
- Not every spell has to be an attack one. Air spells have flight and shields. Water spells can help cross a desert. Fire spells can create light. Earth spells . . . can be used to…
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