Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-128.151.150.18-20161013025548/@comment-25936766-20161016011323

DragGon7601 wrote: 1-I did look right, but the thing is that in 2d drawings there is not much difference between the lines made by cracks and lines made lightning.

2-Also the westen "4 clasical elements" are still well known in modern times, Fire/water/earth/wind.

3-While eastern ones have become more known westeners will likely default to the westen clasical ones. 1-What cracks?

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.

An example of another franchise that does the same: Shin Megami Tensei, and by extension Persona and Devil Summoner: The basic elemental spells are normally Agi, Bufu, Zio and Zan/Garu: Fire, Ice, Lightning, Force/Wind.

And to be fair, an example of a franchise that follows better the classical elements: Golden Sun, with Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter: Earth, Fire, Water, Wind/Lightning.

3-Just to clarify....you mean the Chinese elements? Not all eastern elements are different from the Classical ones. The Hindu elements, for example, were the same as the Classical ones, but with Aether replaced by Akasha.