Elements of Dwaia

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Elements are the indivisible parts from which the universe of Dwaia is built. There are 6 Classes of elements: Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Energy and Bo. Earth is the base for all that is solid and immobile. Water is the base for flexible and fluid things. Air is the base for gases and fumes. Fire is the base for spicy and therefore glowy things. Energy is the source of motion and change. Bo is the source of sentience and free will. All these classes combine together to form life and the world. The elements are indivisible. This means that they cannot be broken apart or otherwise destroyed, unless they are annihilated with their anti-element. Equally, the creation of an element requires the creation of an equal amount of its anti-element. To clarify, because Harambe is an element, Harambe cannot be destroyed without creating an anti-Harambe first. However creating an anti-Harambe involves creating a Harambe as well. Thus the Harambe Equivalence Constant or HEC (The number of Harambes in existence minus the number of anti-Harambes) is, as its name implies, a constant. This is called the principle of Equivalent Exchange.

Every living entity on Dwaia has an element assigned to them, weaker entities usually have basic elements, while stronger, more ascended entities have (or are themselves) advanced elements.

The purest elements are found at the Spires, which are made from the ultimate forms of the elements and exude an energy over their respective face of Dwaia based on that element. This energy is what gives each face of Dwaia its distinctive environment.

Base elements

Many low-level creatures and objects are made of the Base elements. Since low-level creatures make up around 99% of all creatures, these elements are very important, though they're not as powerful as their Advanced or Ascended forms. There are six Base elements:

Air

element blows. Get it? Air element entities include:

• Cro
• Queen Cro
• Mothgirl

Bo

is the element that allows entities to be sentient. All sentient entities contain some bo, but some frequently used examples are:

• Cowbo
• Human

Earth

is usually dry, sometimes brown, mostly an element. Earth element entities include:

• Worm boi

Energy

is the element that connects all the others such that they can combine to form the universe. Energy element entities include:

• Autogeist

Fire

is a very toasty element, dries up bread fast. Fire element entities include:

• Skep the Bep

Water

is one of the most basic elements on Dwaia, it is very moist and dank. Water element entities include:

• Cancerous Tumor
• Humans

Aspects

An aspect is an aura that a base element is imbued with in order to change its basic properties. A pure element can only take on a single aspect, but combination elements can take on as many aspects as there are distinct elements in the compound. Aspects can only exist with elements to act on, and cannot exist independently. There are six aspects, which means seven possible states for each element. Aspects are divided into two subgroups: The Cardinal Aspects: Death, Life, Regression, and Progression — and the Vertical Aspects: Ascension, and Ultimatum.

The six aspects are:

Notation and nomenclature

To get the scientific symbol for an element, affix the symbol of its Base element with the symbol of its row (its Aspect). For example, the symbol for Pomf is Ae⧺ (pronounced variously as "air ascended" "ayy plus plus" or "ayy peepee"), because it lies in the Ascended row and on the Air column.

The symbols have the following pronunciations:

Element Symbol	Pronunciations	Aspect Symbol	Pronunciations
Te	tay, earth, terra, toe (rare accent)	⧺	plus plus, double plus, peepee
Aq	ack, water, aqua, moist	†	dagger, spookified, spook, death, cross
Ae	ayy, air, aer, wind, breeze	∲	harp, naturalized, nature, nat, life
Ig	igg, fire, ignis, blaze, phoenix (archaic)	↓	down, regressed, trashified, trash
Qu	cue, energy, quintessentia, quintessence, quint	↑	up, progressed, technolized, tech
Bo	bo	♯	sharp, ascended, pound, hash, octothorpe

Table of elements

There are 6 Base Elements: Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Energy and Bo. Earth is the base for all that is solid and immobile. Water is the base for flexible and fluid things. Air is the base for gases and fumes. Fire is the base for spicy and therefore glowy things. Energy is the source of motion and change. Bo is the source of sentience and free will. All these classes combine together to form life and the world.

Further, there are 6 Aspects: the Cardinal Aspects:Tech, Nature, Trash, and Wickedness, and the Vertical Aspects: Ascension, and 'Ultimation.

Any base element may take on exactly one Aspect, thus producing an array of 42 elements, that is, 6 base elements + 36 elements with aspects:

Base	Bo (Bo)	Water (Aq)	Air (Ae)	Earth (Te)	Fire (Ig)	Energy (Qu)
Death (†)	Skeletol	Blood	Zyklon 🅱	Bone	Spirit	Evil
Life (∲)	Faeon	Meat	Breath	Plant	Soul	Good
Regression (↓)	Trashmannium	Sewage	Braps	Trash	Rancid kebab	Shitpost
Progression (↑)	AI	Steam	The Cloud	Car Parts	Firewall	Knawledge
Ascension (⧺)	Ego	Juice	Pomf	Steel	Spice	Distraction
Ultimatum (♯)	potato	Meme juice	Succ	Harambium	Japalenon	Autoanium

Advanced elements

"Advanced elements" is an umbrella term for Cross elements, as well as elements imbued with Death, Life, Regression, Progression, Ascension, and Ultimatum aspects.

Cross elements also known as Compounds are elements that result from one base element being combined with another. The first element forms the base, and the second element shapes and alters the base into a more advanced form by absorbing it. Cross elements, as well as Base elements can all be imbued with aspects.

Death elements, also called Spooky elements, are Base elements that have been warped into a ghastly form through a process called spookification. This imbues them with the death aspect. They can be de-spookified to return them back to their original form, though both processes are quite difficult to execute.

Life elements, also called Nature elements, are similar yet opposite to Death elements. They are produced from Base elements through naturalization, and can be undone through denaturalization, applying or removing the life aspect. Sentient entities can consist from Life or Death elements, but things go wrong when Life and Death mix.

Regression elements, also known as Trash elements, are Base elements that have been trashified, imbuing them with the regression aspect.

Progression elements, also known as Tech elements, are Base elements that have been technolized, imbuing them with the progression aspect.

Ascended elements are elements that exist on a distinct level of power from their simpler forms, and have acquired the ascension aspect. They cannot simply be created from those lower forms, instead usually requiring a long and arduous process to make them more efficient in a way. You need to give a lot of power to a piece of earth to make steel (Ascended earth), because steel is more efficient at being strong.

Ultimate elements are extremely rare and valuable, being the most powerful state of their respective element, infused with the highly powerful and fickle ultimatum aspect. They must either be mined from the spires, or created from an incredibly complex and difficult feat of magic or technology (maybe even both).

A list of some common advanced and cross elements follows:

Car Parts, not to be confused with Trash, are elements found in either trailer parks or dumping grounds. Car Part element entities include:

• Car

Cosmic Dust: Absolute fecal matter

Goop is a type of water-based slime. Unless you add flavor or smell, it is pretty bland. Goop entities include:

• Blobman

Skateboards is an advanced element. A combination of earth and air. Skateboard element entities include:

• Cool Kids

Knawledge is the Progression form of the Base element Energy, and is a fundamental part to almost all modern technology. Knawledge can be used on a thing to understand it better if you are having trouble with it. Knawledge elements include:

• Phones
• Tabloids
• Computers

Trash is found around the same area Car Parts are found, as well as in people's garbage bins, and in the common trash can. It is the Regression of Earth. Trash element entities include:

• Bogobin

The Slavic element of Vodka is an advanced water-based element. It is the Ascended form of the Cross element of Soup, which crosses Fire onto the base element of Water. Its effects upon consumption vary from person to person. Some of these include: A want to listen to hardbass, drunkness (Or reverse-soberness), sudden Slavic accent, a case of the stumbles and death. Vodka element entities include:

• Slav

Ultimate Forms

Succ

Succ is the ultimate reverse apex form of the base air element. It was discovered when Spatakiller first delved into the core mechanisms of Floaty Cro Place. The first title he gave this substance was "Reverse-Blow" but he was hit over the head for being stupid and it was then named Succ instead. In any case, he found out that Succ was the main source of the floatiness of Floaty Cro Place.

Succ element entities include:

• Queen Cro

The Cardinal Cycle

The Cardinal Cycle is a scientific table that shows how aspects are interconnected, but also the linearity between the aspects.

The Cardinal Cycle as it is presented in the text books.

Tech decays into Nature, so without sufficient effort, societies recede into primitivity.

Nature decays into Trash, so without sufficient health, nature falls into rot.

Trash decays into Wickedness, so without sufficient separation, trash will spark corruption.

Finally, Wickedness decays into Tech, and so without heroes, power falls in the hands of evil.

Outside of this cycle, Ascended elements may decay into base elements (as ascended elements are focused versions of base elements.), and Ultimate elements may very infrequently decay into Ascension elements (as they are in turn, focused versions of those). The time it takes for ascended and ultimate elements to decay is based entirely on the power of that specific element.

Associations between Base and Aspect

The Aspects and the Classes of elements have a sort of correspondence between them. Fire corresponds to Wickedness, as it selfishly spreads everywhere consuming things for itself. Air corresponds to Nature, as it selflessly spreads everywhere, feeding life, and even feeding fire. Earth corresponds to Trash, as it stagnates motionlessly by default, and, if brought in motion, lumbers forward ponderously without flexibility. Water corresponds to Tech, as it flows and adapts to its surroundings, always progressing. Energy corresponds to Ascension, as it allows some things to be stronger than others. Bo corresponds to Ultimation, as it allows for the formation of sentient and intelligent creatures that can rule over the world.

Partly because of this, Earth, Water, Fire, and Air are also called the Cardinal Classes or Cardinal Bases; and Energy and Bo are also called the Aetheric Classes or Aetheric Bases.

Furthermore, the classes also have cardinal directions related to them, which are reflected in Dwaia’s cubal geography.

Fire is associated with the South, as the sun Japaleno lies to the South, heating up that area of the planet with its spiciness field. Air is associated with the North, due to the fierce winds of the icy Northern hemicube. Water is associated with the West, as the moon Eggo lies to the West, pulling all the water towards it with its sponge field. Earth is associated with the East, due to the Eastern drought that results from all the water being pulled toward the West. Bo is associated with the Zenith, as the population of intelligent species on the “top” of Dwaia is quite evident. Energy is associated with the Nadir, as the mysterious “bottom” of Dwaia is thought of as magical, and arcane.

Class	Aspect	Direction	Quality	Ideology	Color	Personality
Earth	Regression	East	rough and cool	Regressive	Yellow	Down-to-Earth
Water	Progression	West	nice and warm	Progressive	Blue	Inventive
Air	Life	North	nice and cool	Egalitarian	Green	Nurturing
Fire	Death	South	rough and warm	Supremacist	Red	Critical
Energy	Ascension	Nadir	magical	Theocratic	Black	Withdrawn
Bo	Ultimate	Zenith	personal	Populist	White	Talkative