Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-128.151.150.18-20161013025548/@comment-4010415-20161016012712

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

2-Yes, the Classical elements are Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, and Aether (divine air/space). But, in fiction, especially RPGs, the 4 basic elements are more often than not Fire, Ice, Lightning, and (sometimes) Wind. It's more rarely that Ice is replaced by Water, and sometimes Lightning is added to Wind, but generally, the 4 basic elements are those.

IIRC, It was said Dust was based on FF7's Materia. And in Final Fantasy, the 3 basic elemental spells are Fire, Blizzard, and Thunder. Fire-Ice-Lightning. ^^^^^ I do remember Monty comparing Dust to Materia.

He also said that a lot of RPG-type thinking went into how they set things up, such as the teams and whatnot.