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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mind of tempest" data-source="post: 8296913" data-attributes="member: 7029233">it is an oversimplification as the book is from what the bronze age or something, look life and air both do one thing super well which is spread to fill the available area super fast and both are far more compressible than water or stone.also, life and air will spread in the largest amount of directions being six of the 8 know possible directions.lightning light and metal, which would be more or less the powers of electromagnetism today.beast embodiment might have to do with dynasty or nation china had the yellow dragon as the symbol of the emperor as well.the quilin has also been the beast of metal along with the tiger, we can remove all nuance but we would have to pick definitions out of blunt necessity, void, heaven, nirvana could do well with cold as Buddhists speak of it as the absence of passion or the blowing out of the fire so that could work.honestly, the druid is more or less invented these days out of whole cloth as old European animism is mostly forgotten, plus Wu Jen and Shugenja using internal energy fits in with both our ideas of psionics and monks so liking them seem natural to me.also, wu jen is apparently not even the right word if memory serves its function.</blockquote>