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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9837428" data-attributes="member: 58172">Elementalism is a central theme of the Dark Sun setting. It is possibly the most religious of all official D&D settings, despite being "godless" (nontheistic). Here the elements are the sacred. The various elemental traditions merit update as well.Mainly, animism emphasizes community neighborly relationships with local nature beings (including psionically aware landscape features). Avoid the assumption that powerful elementals are functioning as-if gods.Druid primal elementalism is necessarily specific features of nature:Air: wind and weather patterns.Water: rains, streams, aquifers, lakes.Earth: specific landcape features, such as a specific mountain or specific patch of flatland.Fire (Plasma): daylight, sunlight, sun and stars.Ether: force including soul including psionics.The creatures of each of these elements are eachothers sacred neighbors.The Cleric divine elementalism is more abstract, treating the five elements as cosmic forces, analogous to a five-fold yang-yin daoism. Here each element is a distinctive state of matter, without which existence is impossible.Earth: solidWater: liquidAir: gasFire: plasmaEther: force-soulThe interactivity of these phenomena are sacred.</blockquote>