| From: | lobo1@****.com (John E Pederson) |
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| Subject: | Re: Wood Elemental Question... |
| Date: | Tue, 17 Sep 1996 18:04:27 PST |
Tinner) writes:
>Anyone looking for a good example of a wood elemental should check out
>Chinese/Asian mythology.
>The elements are quite different in that mythos.
>Hermetically, we have the water vs. fire, air vs. earth conflict.
>In the asian myths, it's more of a circle. water vs. earth vs. fire,
>vs.
>wood, vs. air (I think)
>Games Worshop has done some work on this stuff in their Warhammer game
>as
>well, check any Nippon references therin.
>Also, the asian elements are much more competitive. Each tries to
>outdo the
>other in magic and power.
I was once told by a friend that this set of elements was called the Nin
(sp?) and was Fire, Air, Water, Metal (I've been told there was a Metal
elemental in ED, and that it is simply a variant form of Earth, which is
why it didn't make it to SR), and Wood. I didn't know about the rest of it, though.
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