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 Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:11 pm
This is to help further describe the main elements that you have to pick from and condensing some of the information into one thread. Also, we do realize that there is no description for Light or Dark, and the reason being that they are currently still nonexistent. When we open those up as options again (and we will explain how) then they will have descriptions.
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:13 pm
Water
Water can appear in three phases. Water takes many different forms on Earth: water vapor and clouds in the sky; seawater and rarely icebergs in the ocean; glaciers and rivers in the mountains; and aquifers in the ground.
Water can dissolve many different substances, giving it different tastes and odors. In fact, humans and other animals have developed senses to be able to evaluate the potability of water: animals generally dislike the taste of salty sea water and the putrid swamps and favor the purer water of a mountain spring or aquifer. Humans also tend to prefer cold water rather than lukewarm, as cold water is likely to contain less microbes. The taste advertised in spring water or mineral water derives from the minerals dissolved in it, as pure H2O is tasteless. As such, purity in spring and mineral water refers to purity from toxins, pollutants, and microbes.
Because of the importance of precipitation to agriculture, and to mankind in general, different names are given to its various forms:
according to phase
solid - ice
liquid - water, (supercooled water)
gaseous - water vapor
according to meteorology:
hydrometeor
precipitation
precipitation according to moves/phase
vertical (falling) precipitation
rain
freezing rain
drizzle
freezing drizzle
snow
snow pellets
snow grains
ice pellets
frozen rain
hail
ice crystals
horizontal (seated) precipitation
dew
hoarfrost
atmospheric icing
glaze ice
liquid precipitation
rain
freezing rain
drizzle
freezing drizzle
dew
solid precipitation
snow
snow pellets
snow grains
ice pellets
frozen rain
hail
ice crystals
hoarfrost
atmospheric icing
glaze ice
mixed precipitation
in temperatures around 0 °C
levitating particles
clouds
fog
BR (according to METAR)
ascending particles (drifted by wind)
spindrift
stirred snow
according to occurence
groundwater
meltwater
meteoric water
fresh water
mineral water – contains much minerals
brackish water
dead water – strange phenomenon which can occur when a layer of fresh or brackish water rests on top of more dense salt water, without the two layers mixing. It is dangerous for ship traveling.
seawater
brine
according to uses
tap water
bottled water
drinking water or potable water – useful for everyday drinking, without fouling, it contains balanced minerals that are not harmful to health (see below)
purified water, laboratory-grade, analytical-grade or reagent-grade water – water which has been highly purified for specific uses in science or engineering. Often broadly classified as Type I, Type II, or Type III, this category of water includes, but is not limited to the following:
distilled water
double distilled water
deionized water
according to other features
soft water – contains less minerals
hard water – from underground, contains more minerals
distilled water, double distilled water, deionized water - contains no minerals
heavy water – made from heavy atoms of hydrogen - deuterium. It is in nature in normal water in very low concentration. It was used in construction of first nuclear reactors.
tritiated water
according to microbiology
drinking water
wastewater
stormwater or surface water
according to religion
holy water
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:16 pm
Fire
Fire is the heat and light energy released during a chemical reaction, in particular a combustion reaction. Depending on the substances alight, and any impurities within, the color of the flame and the fire intensity might vary.
Fires start when a flammable and/or a combustible material with an adequate supply of oxygen or another oxidizer is subjected to enough heat and is able to sustain a chain reaction. This is commonly called the fire tetrahedron. No fire can exist without all of these elements being in place.
Once ignited, a chain reaction must take place whereby fires can sustain their own heat by the further release of heat energy in the process of combustion and may propagate, provided there is a continuous supply of an oxidizer and fuel.
Fire can be extinguished by removing any one of the elements of the fire tetrahedron. Fire extinguishing by the application of water acts by cooling the fuel to stop the reaction. The application of carbon dioxide starves the fire of oxygen. Other gaseous fire suppression agents, such as halon or HFC-227, interfere with the chemical reaction itself.
The visible flame has little mass, and it is comprised of luminous gases which emit energy (photons) as part of the oxidation process. The color of the flame is dependent upon the energy level of the photons emitted. Lower energy levels produce colors toward the red end of the light spectrum while higher energy levels produce colors toward the blue end of the spectrum. The hottest flames are white in appearance. The color of a fire may also be affected by chemical elements in the flame, such as barium giving a green flame color. The flame color depends also on the unoxidized carbon particles. In some cases there is a partial fuel oxidation due to oxygen lack in the central part of the flame, where combustion reactions take place. In such cases the unoxidized hot carbon particles emit radiation in the light spectrum, resulting in a yellow/red flame, such that of a common house fireplace
A flame is an exothermic, self-sustaining, oxidizing chemical reaction producing energy and glowing hot matter, of which a very small portion is plasma. It consists of reacting gases and solids emitting visible and infrared light, the frequency spectrum of which depends on the chemical composition of the burning elements and intermediate reaction products.
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:20 pm
Earth
Earth, home and origin of humanity, has often been worshipped in its own right with its own unique spiritual tradition
In traditional Chinese philosophy, Earth is classified as one of the Wu xing, or the Five Elements, also translated as five phases, five movements or five steps. It was employed in many fields of early Chinese thought, including seemingly disparate fields such as geomancy and Feng shui, astrology, traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese alchemy, music, military strategy and martial arts. The original foundation for the idea is based on the concept of the Five Cardinal Points.
Earth is a balance of both yin and yang, the feminine and masculine together. Its motion is inward and centering, and its energy is stabilising and conserving. It is associated with the color yellow and the planet Saturn, and it lies at the center of the compass in the Chinese cosmos. It is associated with the turn of each of the four seasons and with damp. It is believed to govern the spleen, stomach, mouth and muscles. Its negative emotion is anxiety and its positive emotion is empathy. Its Primal Spirit is represented by the Yellow Phoenix.
Earth is associated with the qualities of patience, thoughtfulness, practicality, hard work and stability. The earth element is also nurturing and seeks to draw all things together with itself, in order to bring harmony, rootedness and stability. Other attributes of the earth element include ambition, stubbornness, responsibility and long-term planning. In pathology, the earth can represent selfishness and self-centeredness. In the controlling cycle earth controls water and is controlled by wood; while in the conducive cycle earth is produced by fire, and in turn produces metal.
Earth has great strength for those who choose to wield it. Unlike fire it is stable and will not scorch you. No other elemental force is as safe or strong as Earth.
Things associated with Earth including its subelements are as follows:
Magma
Dirt
Rocks
Trees
Plants
Mountains
Mud
Metal (sub)
Their weaknesses are very few from the other elements. Fire can burn down a tree, but cannot hard a large boulder. Air can blow down trees and small rocks and sand, they can even erode large formations over long periods of time, but mountains cannot be moved, same with large objects. Water can erode rocks over time, they can submerge cities, but an Earth user can create massive walls that will keep water at bay.
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:21 pm
Wind
Wind is the flow of air. More generally, it is the flow of the gases which compose an atmosphere; since wind is not unique to Earth.
Simply it occurs as air is heated by the sun and thus rises. Cool air then rushes in to occupy the area from which the hot air has now moved. It could be loosely classed as a convection current.
There are global winds, such as the wind belts which exist between the atmospheric circulation cells. There are upper-level winds which typically include narrow belts of concentrated flow called jet streams. There are synoptic-scale winds that result from pressure differences in surface air masses in the middle latitudes, and there are winds that come about as a consequence of geographic features, such as the sea breezes on coastlines or canyon breezes near mountains. Mesoscale winds are those which act on a local scale, such as gust fronts. At the smallest scale are the microscale winds, which blow on a scale of only tens to hundreds of meters and are essentially unpredictable, such as dust devils and microbursts.
Forces which drive wind or affect it are the pressure gradient force, the Coriolis force, buoyancy forces, and friction forces. When a difference in pressure exists between two adjacent air masses, the air tends to flow from the region of high pressure to the region of low pressure. On a rotating planet, flows will be acted upon by the Coriolis force, in regions sufficiently far from the equator and sufficiently high above the surface.
The three major driving factors of large scale global winds are the differential heating between the equator and the poles (difference in absorption of solar energy between these climate zones), and the rotation of the planet.
Winds can shape landforms, via a variety of eolian processes.
Aeolian (or Eolian or Æolian) processes pertain to the activity of the winds and more specifically, to the winds' ability to shape the surface of the Earth and other planets. Winds may erode, transport, and deposit materials, and are effective agents in regions with sparse vegetation and a large supply of unconsolidated sediments. Although water is much more powerful than wind, aeolian processes are important in arid environments such as deserts.
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:23 pm
Light
Light though it is commonly known to represent souls and what all is good and pure within us, does not mean those wielding light will be kind and pure.
Healing light can mean many things depending. Though it is a misconception that all Light Borne are pure and good, it is a known fact that almost all Light Borne have exceptional healing abilities. Whether it is something as simple as sealing a gash, mending a bone, to healing the hurts and taints in someone's soul, Light Borne's have an exceptional talent in this without needing to learn. Their souls recognize what to do.
Light is in everything and without it no one can see. Light is said to be made out of all colors that can only be divided out in a prism of sorts. Light Borne can actually take their visible particles and throw them to appear somewhere else. Think of a hologram.
They however cannot teleport, they can travel through the vacuum of light though which is basically the same thing. Please use the right term! You CANNOT travel through a lightwave at the middle of the night, the light has to be there already. You cannot make it exist.
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:27 pm
Dark
Dark is usually associated with demons and evil as well as the darker side of nature, and though many who are Dark Borne are associated with those things, it does not mean that all Dark Borne have no souls and use their souls for darkness.
The Absence of light is literally what makes dark, Dark. Dark Borne cannot heal and very few can even manage to learn anything to do with physical healing as it is not in their nature. Instead they are more inclined to create the damages that need healing.
Shadow movement is the closest thing that Dark Borne have to a type of disappearance. They can literally turn themselves into shadows, however a standing shadow is very apparent, so in order to disappear they must merge with another shadow. Unlike light borne who can travel on light waves dark borne cannot travel anywhere they want when it's night. Why? Because the stars will make it possible to see, there will never absolutely be a complete absence of light. Instead they can travel through the shadows.
Shadow hopping is very tedious and somewhat dangerous to do in the middle of the day. Shadows will always exist, so traveling at night is extremely easy. However, during the day when you shadow hop while you are moving between shadows you (your shadow form) will very much be visible moving along the ground to the next shadow.
Those who wield Dark are also very likely to bring out the worst in people, and they are very good at manipulating the darkness that resides in the hearts of people who did not choose that path (all except royals or light borne's could be susceptible). They tend to manipulate those people to accomplish some of their darker ideals such as chaos which they seem to enjoy immensely.
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