Elements

This power deals with the manipulation, creation, and control of the primary elements of creation. These elements are Air, Earth, Fire and Water; it may also contain such things as darkness, light, moon, void, aether, wood and so on. It also pertains to interaction and control of creatures from those realms. This skill provides for only a single element; although a stunt can give additional elements.

You can manipulate an already existing quality of an element. To lift an element consult the table under Might and use your power skill level. This trapping requires a corresponding amount of element to manipulate, your cannot create the element from nothing.

Increase the size or intensity of an existing element with a base difficulty equal to the current intensity of the element. The number shifts gained is added to the current intensity to determine its new rating. Rivers and swell their banks, fires flare up, rocks rise from the ground, and winds become gales. Diminish is the opposite effect and shrinks or lessens an existing element.

The basic attack trapping of the Elements skill. You can hurls balls of fire, crushing columns of wind, sharp rocks, and slam targets with water spouts. You must have enough element to project with the intensity of the element serving as a restriction upon this skill.

You can defend against an element with this skill.

Para-elements are not true elements, but instead areas where the elements clash and merge as they seek dominance of the others. Examples include ice (water and darkness), metal (earth and fire), steam (fire and water), lava (earth and fire) and so on.