@vegastellaris Thank you!
To answer your question, it was me kind of wanting to go in order by the month a given element has their elemental holiday but then I scrapped that thought entirely because it leads to complete nonsense. For example, the two January signs Aquarius and Capricorn--two signs that could be Icewarden's, but neither of them are water signs.
So I went instead with a paradigm based on the four base astrological elements (which conveniently match up to the First Four) and applied the sign to a given element according to Cardinal, Mutable, or Fixed attributes this simplified typing:
Cardinal: Independent + Ambitious v Inconsiderate + Hasty
Fixed: Stable + Determined v Egotistical + Stubborn
Mutable: Adaptable + Versatile vs Unreliable + Inconsistent
The Cardinals naturally match up to the First Four, but choosing the Fixed V Mutables for each all have the own logic.
Light is a almost always a byproduct of heat, and Nature thrives with heat and light, so both those elements went under Fire. Shadow and Plague require physical forms--material to obstruct light and to infect, so they went under the Earth sign. Lightning and Arcane are Air signs because the fore is a literal sky element and the latter is a more romantic 'air as the heavens' interpretation. Water signs are probably the most obvious, so yeah :>
Hope that answers your question! I had a lot of fun brainstorming on it so feel free to ask me anything else!
To answer your question, it was me kind of wanting to go in order by the month a given element has their elemental holiday but then I scrapped that thought entirely because it leads to complete nonsense. For example, the two January signs Aquarius and Capricorn--two signs that could be Icewarden's, but neither of them are water signs.
So I went instead with a paradigm based on the four base astrological elements (which conveniently match up to the First Four) and applied the sign to a given element according to Cardinal, Mutable, or Fixed attributes this simplified typing:
Cardinal: Independent + Ambitious v Inconsiderate + Hasty
Fixed: Stable + Determined v Egotistical + Stubborn
Mutable: Adaptable + Versatile vs Unreliable + Inconsistent
The Cardinals naturally match up to the First Four, but choosing the Fixed V Mutables for each all have the own logic.
Light is a almost always a byproduct of heat, and Nature thrives with heat and light, so both those elements went under Fire. Shadow and Plague require physical forms--material to obstruct light and to infect, so they went under the Earth sign. Lightning and Arcane are Air signs because the fore is a literal sky element and the latter is a more romantic 'air as the heavens' interpretation. Water signs are probably the most obvious, so yeah :>
Hope that answers your question! I had a lot of fun brainstorming on it so feel free to ask me anything else!
Gen1 Quest:
Midnight/Midnight/Seafoam Male
Wine/Wine/light green range
Midnight/Midnight/Seafoam Male
Wine/Wine/light green range
