Jjeinn-tae
2014-05-11, 10:58 PM
Hello everyone, I've been setting building for an upcoming RPG and one of the things I've decided is to utilize Planescape's elemental planes. All 24 of them. The Elemental Princes of these planes will serve as the main deities that the party would be able to dedicate themselves to, in a pantheon of 40 "deities" total. Four of the deities are named from Greek Mythology (being slight corruptions of various names, we have Gaia, Typhos, Mnemes and Aodes), and the other 12 are are more "forces on nature" and amount to the Ba Gua Trigrams, in both name and "function." I feel the Elemental Princes similarly should have a linking theme that is separate, but so far I've yet to come up with a good one, especially with some of the more oddball elements, like "Ooze" and "Pumice." Currently my best thought involves using Latin, but I thought I'd turn to the Playground, as there is no shortage of great ideas here.
So, anyone up for some group brainstorming? They don't have to have any deep meaning, if you think of something that just screams "This is what the spirit of Pumice would be named" to you, throw it at me. :smalltongue:
Basically, there are the four primary elements, Water, Earth, Fire, Air; these can mix to form a quasielement, and then each element and quasielement has both a positive and a negative paraelement. I'll arrange them in a table here.
Positive
Element
Negative
Steam
Water
Salt
Crystal
Ice (Water/Air)
Frost
Lightning
Air
Vacuum
Spark
Smoke (Air/Fire)
Fumes
Radiance
Fire
Ash
Obsidian
Magma (Fire/Earth)
Pumice
Mineral
Earth
Dust
Clay
Ooze (Earth/Water)
Silt
So, anyone up for some group brainstorming? They don't have to have any deep meaning, if you think of something that just screams "This is what the spirit of Pumice would be named" to you, throw it at me. :smalltongue:
Basically, there are the four primary elements, Water, Earth, Fire, Air; these can mix to form a quasielement, and then each element and quasielement has both a positive and a negative paraelement. I'll arrange them in a table here.
Positive
Element
Negative
Steam
Water
Salt
Crystal
Ice (Water/Air)
Frost
Lightning
Air
Vacuum
Spark
Smoke (Air/Fire)
Fumes
Radiance
Fire
Ash
Obsidian
Magma (Fire/Earth)
Pumice
Mineral
Earth
Dust
Clay
Ooze (Earth/Water)
Silt