Hylocosmic Model
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The Hylocosm
The hylocosm is a representation of the four basic elemental energies, and the primordial energies, and how they combine on a metaphysical level to make amalgmal energies. These behave as "sub-elements", and are otherwise distinct from the energies that birthed them. Therefore while metal, for instance, is a combination of fire, earth, and extropy, doing a damage combination or otherwise doing stuff with a combination of those damage types or energies is not equal to this.
The Model
Extropy
Crystal Metal Heat Light Lightning Thunder Ooze Acid
Earth Magma Fire Smoke Air Mist Water Mud
Eskara Stone Ash Darkness Void Cold Ice Alkali
Entropy
Fire, air, water, and earth are base elements, and combine with their neighboring elements to make first order amalgms: Smoke, mist, mud, and magma.
The base elements combine with a primordial energy polarity, either extropy, or entropy to make second order amalgms: Light, darkness, lightning, void, ooze, ice, crystal, and eskara.
Two base elements combine with a primordial energy polarity to make third order amalgms, and otherwise don't incorporate the first, or second order amalgms: Heat, cold, thunder, stone, acid, alkali, metal, and ash.
All four basic elements, plus both primordial energy polarities combine to make the one fourth order amalgm: shadow.
Confusingly enough, the elements aren't always positioned to where antagonistic energies are directly competing. For instance, heat's opposite is cold, not ash. Which makes this map partially pointless! Yay!
The Revised Model
As the above is mostly correct but somewhat outdated (and I'd feel bad just deleting it because it's nicely written and all), here is the more current version of the hylocosm, along with the related telesmic channeling skill name for each element. I will leave the table wizardry to someone more versed in the wiki arcana than I.
Base Elements
Straightforwardly enough, elemental energies are present independently, and occur in all of the following amalgams.
polar energies
Besides occurring on their own, polar energies are present in second, third, and the fourth amalgam, but not in first order ones.
First Order Amalgams
First order amalgams are comprised of two adjacent elemental energies.
- Magma; earth + fire; Magmaturgy
- Smoke; fire + air; Typhaturgy
- Mist air + water; Achlaturgy
- Mud; water + earth; Laspaturgy
Second Order Amalgams
Second order amalgams are comprised of a base element and a polar energy.
- Crystal; earth + extropy; Krystallaturgy
- Eskara; earth + entropy; Eskaraturgy
- Heat; fire + extropy; Thermaturgy
- Ash; fire + entropy; Spodaturgy
- Lightning; air + extropy; Elektraturgy
- Void; air + entropy; Ektilaturgy
- Ooze; water + extropy; Khlediturgy
- Ice; water + entropy; Glaciaturgy
Third Order Amalgams
Third order amalgams are comprised of two adjacent elemental energies and a polar energy. Another way of thinking about it is, third order amalgams are "polarized" first order amalgams,.
- Metal; earth + fire + extropy; Khalkiturgy
- Stone; earth + fire + entropy; Petraturgy
- Light; fire + air + extropy; Lumiturgy
- Darkness; fire + air + entropy; Skotaturgy
- Thunder; air + water + extropy; Keraunaturgy
- Cold; air + water + entropy; Cryoturgy
- Acid; water + earth + extropy; Oxydaturgy
- Alkali; water + earth + entropy; Alkaliturgy
Fourth Order Amalgam
There is only one of these and it is made up of everything else.
See Also
There are forces and energies that don't fit into the hylocosmic model. For those, see the Paracosmic Model.
For material stuff relating to elements, see Item Infusion. As explained there, energies have magnitude. This is relevant to the hylocosmic model in that, in a three-dimensional representation of the planes, magnitude represents the distance each plane is from the center (and thus its counterparts).
