Elemental Powers
Nov 10, 2008 17:23:14 GMT -8
Post by flippedside on Nov 10, 2008 17:23:14 GMT -8
Shape-shifters, by virtue of their element, have the ability to use a few extra small magics besides shape-shifting. None of these are complex, but they can be very helpful. Keep in mind, when creating a character, that their element only allows small magic: things like illusion (nothing complex) and simple healing skills.
Each element also tends to have a certain set of personality traits associated with it. However, these are just guidelines and each shape-shifter is unique. Personalities and small magics will vary. Take guidance in the innate nature of your character's animal for its personality, as well.
Earth:
Earth shape-shifters tend to have steadier, calmer dispositions. They also tend to be stubborn. Healing and warding are the most common magic.
Air:
Air shape-shifters can be very flighty and loose. By nature they are swift but compassionate. Naturally intelligent, air shape-shifters have the ability to create gifts: small token items that have a specific purpose. Air can also heal, but this is less common.
Fire:
Fire is the most changeable of the elements. Fire shape-shifters are usually very unpredictable and very passionate. Illusion and warding are the strongest abilities amongst the fire-gifted.
Water:
Water can be calm or it can be a raging force from hell. However, water shape-shifters are usually light-hearted and playful. Healing and gift-making are their skills.
Night:
Night shape-shifters are usually the most dangerous. They live on just this side of life, always a step from death and danger. They like the darkness, silence, and being alone. Night is very skilled with illusions and deception.
The final two elements are owned by those who are not shape-shifters, but elementals. Creatures created with the element running through their life-blood, they are both stunningly beautiful and frighteningly powerful at once.
Storm:
Those who are strong and fierce are usually storm elementals. The power of lightening and hurricanes is theirs to use. Thoughtful and clever, they can also be rash and cruel.
Star:
Quiet, but sometimes cold and distant, star elementals are the strangest and most otherworldly of all the elements. They often seem to live in their own dreamworld. Dangerous but compassionate, they have the ability to heal or kill in a single strike.
