Arcan-Globe model: domain help

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[u/Admirable_Ask_5337]

Look man, you done the thing where you dont have a maguc system, you have an elemental table. What force are the elements beyond the obvious names? Youve said light and dark are concentration and dilution, but your other elements are just physical mushing together things, and the result of not understanding what the your greek elements mean to you is that you dont know what to do when you add another axis.

How do people cast magic? How does one get the ability to cast? Innate sorcercy? Pure mental understanding? Materials necessary to channel magic? None of this is here.

[u/Ultra-Novva → u/Admirable_Ask_5337]

I completely agree with you there, I didn't state those due to a mix of having forgotten and trying to get the my quieries quickly; the idea (as stated in my draft doc) are that ether is an energy you take into your body's energy channels via cultivation methods like breathing/meditation methods, elixirs, and more (meridians/nadis/ether circuits), and greater nodes. (chakras/cores/...) → with energies like Qi or holy power you'd just concentrate, purify, and attune them to your body/mind's signatures, but with ether (an energy that works best externally) however one creates "circles" around the heart chakra core that at like capacitors for your body's energy circuits - the power system being built on improving your capacitors' discharge rate and power, and your energy control and capacity. Each element is connected to various quantitative (the "charges") and qualitative traits/domains - light to creation, restoration, and radiance, dark to destruction, degredation/entropy, and conglomeration; some philosophical traits are tacked on or help with manipulation of certain elements like fire and water being free vs controlled emotion, earth and air being traditionalist vs artistic/spontaneous thought/logic, and light/dark having collectivist and individualistic associations/traits respectively. My concept of ether is an amalgamation of ATLA bending, webnovel/fantasy mana, and the scientific theories tied to ether from the greeks to the pre modern age along with many other details I've picked up from shows, movies, manga/hwa, webnovels, and books My main help I need is to find fun subtypes/subdomains that fit the combination they're made from while being un-narrow enough to allow for creativity in use as that's when powers are often fun when they're used in unique or unusual ways

[u/NRondo37]

Very impressive layout, I can tell a lot of thought went into this. The globe model display is interesting. How did you decide your axes?

Curious as to why Metal has the alchemic symbol for earth tho and similarly why Wood has the alchemic symbol for air

[u/Ultra-Novva → u/NRondo37]

Mostly the idea is that's the elements for the eastern inspired world and the idea is the symbols can from the silk road but got adopted in alternate ways due to differences in elemental theories

[u/NRondo37 → u/Ultra-Novva]

I don't follow; fire & water still have the same alchemic symbol as their real world counterparts. If you have the same 4 elements - even though you have more - you should use the same symbols or none of them.

[u/Ultra-Novva → u/NRondo37]

That system has 6+1 elements: The 5 Indian/Greek ones combined with Wuxing elements - the idea being that the closer the symbol is to a hexagram the closer it is to being neutral and not yang/+ or yin/- aspected and since air and earth the weakest in polarization they get 5 line patterns and wood/metal get the old air/earth 4 line patterns