Elements

Every character is born to one element. It wakes in your first hour, at a cracked Nazar lens, where you choose it. Its moves are your magic.

The four

Each people reads the elements its own way, and each has one it most often follows. It is offered first, never forced. Words of power float over your head in each element's old script.

Using your moves

Your hands glow for a moment and the move goes off. Each move has its own cooldown. A new element puts its first move on key 1 (water and air also give a second on key 2); set the others in the Moves tab of the Elements window.

Skill and energy

Each element is a skill, and using its moves trains it. Stronger moves need more skill; Fireball needs 35 and Ring of Fire 50. Specialty moves, such as Lightning, Combustion, Deep Freeze and Healing Tide, also need their place taken in the element's tree.

Moves cost energy, an inner pool that fills quickly, and twice as fast when you stand still. More element skill, more Meditation and more Intelligence all make it bigger.

Nature

The world around you makes your element stronger or weaker. The Elements window shows how it stands right now.

• Fire likes clear days, the daytime, and standing near a fire. Rain, storms and snow dull it.
• Water likes rain, fog, snow, the night, and standing near water.
• Earth likes standing near rock, and a little snow.
• Air likes storms, wind, and open sky above you.
• Your people's own hour of the day gives a little more.

Every move

Each element has eight moves or so. Higher ones need more skill; the ones marked Tree also need their place in the element's tree. Open an element for its tree and the full detail.

A second element

Once your first element reaches 70, you can take up a second in the Elements window. It trains at half speed and stops at 70. Your first element is who you are; the second is what you learned.