Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26064215-20150127201253/@comment-25555436-20150220224935

...Should I take your 7/10 poetic paragraph at face value? Or should I just think you were exagerating to make it sound cooler?

If a flame dies, it no longer generates light, and as such all that's left would be darkness...yes. But if a flame dies, it's no longer a flame, no longer fire. As such, you can't say Fire makes Darkness like it makes Light.

You could say Darkness can be made from the "death" of Fire. However, then one could say the same about Lightning. Once the lightning fades, there's no light...am I right?

But I believe my point has been understood now: If Fire dies, there's no more light...but then there's also no more Fire. As such, while Darkness can be made from the absence of Fire, and as such of Light, you can't make Darkness with the Fire itself.

It's like if you dropped a toast to the floor, Chuck Norris kicked it, and it became ashes. You can't say "the toast is on the ground", as it is no longer a toast. But you can say now "there's ashes on the ground", as a result of the toast no longer being toast, but ashes.

PS: Should Ashes be considered an element, or just by-product of one, regarding RWBY?