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Caves and Critters - Chap 06 Page 14
One thing I've never liked about Water magic in games and cartoons like Avatar is that by and large, it's portrayed as being capable of little more than pushing people around or doing a bit of damage. (Avatar: TLA and Avatar: LOK being the notable exceptions to this rule.)
Thing is... water can, and does, occasionally decide to up and flatten coastal cities, killing thousands in the process. Water cannons are highly effective and (if misused) potentially lethal weapons used to quell riots. High-pressure jets of focused water can slice through solid matter like a knife through hot butter.
Or in this case, it can launch an armoured skeleton clear across the street and through the wall of the opposite building. Good thing he doesn't have a nervous system any more or that woulda really hurt D:
Thing is... water can, and does, occasionally decide to up and flatten coastal cities, killing thousands in the process. Water cannons are highly effective and (if misused) potentially lethal weapons used to quell riots. High-pressure jets of focused water can slice through solid matter like a knife through hot butter.
Or in this case, it can launch an armoured skeleton clear across the street and through the wall of the opposite building. Good thing he doesn't have a nervous system any more or that woulda really hurt D:
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I think Fire is generally set as the most destructive because it's a naturally 'wild' element. Anyone who lives in Australia can tell you how quickly a town-ravaging fire can start just by being dry and hot out, and it's also notoriously difficult to control or stop once it gets going. But I agree that Water is never given the place it rightly deserves :P It's almost always reserved as 'the healing element'.
what about wind or earth dont see much in the ways of destructive type magic for that. but those like water can easily rend a limb or two from a body. =p sorry just had to add my two cents i enjoy magic in all its shapes and forms and have formulated many a way that any element can bring both death or life.
eartquakes, rockslides, pitfalls,quicksand, various metals,even lava, and such make earth great for causing damage, but also leaves it as the 'defense element'.
As for wind, gale force hurricanes, tornadoes, vacuums, those make wind extremely destructive and dangerous to breathing creatures, but is usually used for just speed and or flying.
As for wind, gale force hurricanes, tornadoes, vacuums, those make wind extremely destructive and dangerous to breathing creatures, but is usually used for just speed and or flying.
There are other non-destructive uses for fire magic, heating things up (such as food/water/drinks) and warming people up by heating the air around them, and if you want to look at ATLA/LOK it can be used to stop a volcanic eruption, or at least push lava away from its target (though i think you would need more than one person to do that XD since avatar roku had a hard time doing that by himself)
yeah =\ all elements are destructive, though my favorites are water and fire :p
though my friend came up with a very terrifying way of using the element of air...lets just say, i was too scared to fight his air elemental character XD it is like, impossible to beat him, always thought water was the scariest element until i met this guy that used air for his character, now im scared of air users (or at least those that know how to use that element, some people dont know)
someone thought they were good with the element of water....until they met me, i showed them how it is truly used...lets just say...his character shriveled up and died :p (after a while of toying with his character) im so mean XD
though my friend came up with a very terrifying way of using the element of air...lets just say, i was too scared to fight his air elemental character XD it is like, impossible to beat him, always thought water was the scariest element until i met this guy that used air for his character, now im scared of air users (or at least those that know how to use that element, some people dont know)
someone thought they were good with the element of water....until they met me, i showed them how it is truly used...lets just say...his character shriveled up and died :p (after a while of toying with his character) im so mean XD
kinda agree with the walking water hose standing there. I would not want any undead creature to touch me, although 'attack on sight' might be a bit much. I wonder how he thinks hes not hurt or dead by that. Plus water magic in desert, youd think a traveling person who could use thta would go to desert towns to help them.
Totally agreed on the "weak water magic" portrayal. That said, I've seen some pretty nasty non-brute-force uses. In one series I read, a water user at several points suffocates people by forcing water down a persons throat, and in another case, blinds someone by literally drying out their eyeballs. Personally, I don't mind those types of portrayals, where each element has their own personality. I kinda like the idea of water as being a subtle, but no less powerful element.
Fire is often seen as the defacto offensive element, earth defensive, and wind and water usually as the utility magics, which is a rather broad and not particularly accurate generalization. When it comes to the elements, I'm more a "water" person myself because of it's versatility. I mean, how many of the other elements can take form as either liquid, gas/vapor, or solid? And as mentioned above, flash freeze the moisture in a person's body and you have an attack that's all but impossible to defend against, and seemingly simple to boot (or perhaps more brutally, "pull" all the moisture out of them). There is an amazingly broad scope of things you can do with the manipulation of moisture and liquid that, by and large, the other elements just don't have (though most games classify "Ice" as it's own element, with fog effects I think falling under "Water" when seen). However, when elemental magic is based more around symbolism than physics, things change drastically, but that's a whole different discussion (in such a case, fire is often portrayed as a "cleansing" force and used for healing).
You all are giving me a huge number of ways to re-write a later sequence...
Either way, it's something I've given extensive thought to myself.
Fire (offensive): Burn just about anything with enough intensity behind the flames
Fire (defensive): Cauterize an open would to stop someone bleeding out, warm up someone on the verge of freezing to death, start a camp-fire.
Earth (offensive): Rip up chunks of land and launch them at people. 'nuff said. Or make buildings collapse, or cause it to open up and swallow people before closing up on them, etc.
Earth (defensive): Shield people from harm with literal walls, coat someone in magically conjured armour to make them harder to kill, etc.
Water (offensive): Drown someone by forcing water into their lungs, pull the fluids in their body away from vital organs or out of their body altogether, use a pressurised jet to blast/cut through matter.
Water (defensive): Soothe a burn or wound (closing up a wound is a different field of magic in the CnC-iverse), conjure up water to slake a thirst, etc.
Wind (offensive): Gale-force winds to throw people and objects around (even ripping apart structures with enough power), throw up storms of dust or sand to blind people, possibly permanently, draw the air away from a person to suffocate them, etc.
Wind (defensive): Deflect projectiles, fly/float/hover, lift and move heavy objects be it for construction or otherwise, etc.
Long story short, there's a lot of ways to use pretty much any form of magic in some very unpleasant or pleasant ways. :D
Either way, it's something I've given extensive thought to myself.
Fire (offensive): Burn just about anything with enough intensity behind the flames
Fire (defensive): Cauterize an open would to stop someone bleeding out, warm up someone on the verge of freezing to death, start a camp-fire.
Earth (offensive): Rip up chunks of land and launch them at people. 'nuff said. Or make buildings collapse, or cause it to open up and swallow people before closing up on them, etc.
Earth (defensive): Shield people from harm with literal walls, coat someone in magically conjured armour to make them harder to kill, etc.
Water (offensive): Drown someone by forcing water into their lungs, pull the fluids in their body away from vital organs or out of their body altogether, use a pressurised jet to blast/cut through matter.
Water (defensive): Soothe a burn or wound (closing up a wound is a different field of magic in the CnC-iverse), conjure up water to slake a thirst, etc.
Wind (offensive): Gale-force winds to throw people and objects around (even ripping apart structures with enough power), throw up storms of dust or sand to blind people, possibly permanently, draw the air away from a person to suffocate them, etc.
Wind (defensive): Deflect projectiles, fly/float/hover, lift and move heavy objects be it for construction or otherwise, etc.
Long story short, there's a lot of ways to use pretty much any form of magic in some very unpleasant or pleasant ways. :D
Right, with the right ingenuity, all the elements can have a broad application of effects. Especially with wind, sometimes it's not the gust itself, but what it leads to that's dangerous. I mean, a firearm is basically just a matter of launching a projectile at extreme velocity to create a penetrative level of kinetic energy. You won't be laughing at that wind mage with a blowgun once he's put a whole in you doing that, and maybe some of your buddies behind you. Or make "homing arrows" with wind magic to carry/guide the projectile.
I'm not sure how it'd be done with fire, but earth, air, and water are all easily capable of exerting pressure in one form or another, and applied pressure can be an amazing tool or weapon.
And with water, if ice is part of it, one can freeze the ground into a solid sheet of ice, making pretty much all physical activity on it almost impossible, or make an impromptu igloo for shelter.
I'm not sure how it'd be done with fire, but earth, air, and water are all easily capable of exerting pressure in one form or another, and applied pressure can be an amazing tool or weapon.
And with water, if ice is part of it, one can freeze the ground into a solid sheet of ice, making pretty much all physical activity on it almost impossible, or make an impromptu igloo for shelter.
Well, I kind of say that the Golden Sun series of games are probably another exception? Though I haven't played the games in a long time, I do remember that they usually play up the elements greater than most other games. As the majority of all four elements are incredibly awesome and very powerful... But this is going off my memory.
But also this is pretty awesome so far ~!<3
But also this is pretty awesome so far ~!<3
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