Qi

== Five Elements Qi ==
Qi relating to the five fundamental elements. Qi gains elemental attributes through association with other things in the world. All five elements feed each other in a series of succeeding cycles and there are various versions of the cycle within Eastern Azure Great World, although they all talk of the same set of five fundamental groups of Elemental aspects
Metal >>> feeds >>> Water >>> feeds >>> Wood >>> feeds >>> Fire >>> feeds >>> Earth >>> feeds >>> Metal
Metal >>> overcomes >>> Wood >>> overcomes Earth >>> overcomes >>> Water >>> overcomes >>> Fire >>> overcomes Metal.
The reverse of these two sequences also cancels each other out. When Yin and Yang attribute comes into play, it becomes a successive cycle so Yin feeds Yang feed feeds yin etc.
The other notable variation on this cycle is Thunder > Water > Life > Fire > Earth. Thunder, in this case, refers more to 'Heaven' and 'Tribulation', as Metal is the element of the Heavens. sometimes lightning is also used, again somewhat metaphorically.
== Yin and Yang Qi ==
Qi that represents the duality present in all aspects of the universe. these can take several forms. the most profound are True Yin and Yang Qi and Pure Yin and Yang Qi. Elemental qi can also have Yin and Yang attributes.
== Qi Types ==
=== Yin Elements ===
Qi Type 	Colour 	Symbolism/Aspect/Description
Pure Yin 	Black 	
Yin Metal/Lightning	Metallic with a purple tint	Yin lightning refined and purified
Yin Water 	Grey Purple 	Qi born of the high places and the deep dark. Clouds and lakes, rain and depthless pools. They were both already familiar with its properties from working in the caves so it was just cold and ephemeral, trying to dissolve away all her control over it in weird and mind-bending ways.
Yin Wood 	Pale Green 	Qi of poison, growth and new life. Horrifyingly slippery, hard to control, rampant, vibrant insidious and destructive yet with an almost all-consuming vitality hidden within it. The embodiment of the hidden talons of the natural world.
Yin Fire 	Orange Red 	The Qi of the boundary, desire and ephemeral hope and despair. Flickering on the edge of non-existence drawing all the warmth of the world into herself somehow and shrouding her in darkness that tried to suffocate her and blot out that self-same warmth. The Qi was so meek and insidious as it tried to use her as fuel to burn away the whole world and become the only warmth in it
Yin Earth 	Pale Brown 	The Qi born of the blooming earth, vitality and primordial origins giving birth to all things. A terrifying pit of primordial creation struggling to claim everything in its embrace yet refusing to mesh truly in equal turn as it saw itself in everything it touched.
=== Yang Elements ===
Qi Type 	Colour 	Symbolism/Aspect/Description
Pure Yang 	White 	
Yang Metal/Lightning	Deep Bronze 	It was the qi of the heavens, warring against everything and anything with unbreakable spirit and boundless ferocity. The Yang Lightning just wanted to punch holes in things and stomp on them afterwards. The punchier and stompier the better as it raged across the water like an angry tiger. Its form was almost unalterable as well. Not for nothing was it known as the purity tribulation when it occurred naturally.
Yang Water 	Deep Azure 	Shifting waves of yang water qi rolling through her meridians, the Qi of primordial oceans, dark and strong with devouring currents, soul-destroying calms and drowning waves. If we tried this before we got this durable we would have been torn to shreds by the primal tidal forces it embodied.
Yang Wood 	Vibrant Green	Timelessness, the qi of the oldest and most ancient beings great trees and mythical beasts. Unbending qi with a primordial vitality that refused to be shaped and tried to shape her body and soul to its own rhythm of aeons. Each cycle seemed to stretch beyond what her mind was capable of comprehending and contained all kinds of awkward interactions as it took on aspects of all the other elemental types it was interacting with. Its vitality was almost a torture in and of itself trapping her within the confines of its boundlessness as it incrementally wore away at the aeons.
Yang Fire 	Red Gold 	Qi of the sun and bright souls, giver of life to every world yet destroyer in equal measure. Tyrannical energetic, all-consuming yet ephemeral and ghostly searing the bones and warming the heart in equal measure, sunbeams and firestorms.
Yang Earth 	Dark Iron 	Soul crushing, sky-scraping immovable and stable on a scale beyond mortal comprehension. The qi of mountains and the world itself able to stand up to the fury of heaven and the greed of mortals in equal measure. It pressed down on her meridians like a vice, ossifying the mist and fusing droplets together wherever it came into contact with them. It was like she was pushing a savage jagged collection of rocks around inside her that wanted to grind down everything and make her one with the world.
=== Heart Force ===
Quasi qi like energy that Dharma Cultivators and a few others cultivate. It has a strong relationship with Soul Force. Scriptures that focus on it in depth are rare.
=== Vital Qi ===
Similar to Vitality/Longevity, except its more common to Body and Physical Cultivators. In physical cultivation it is the qi that is permanently locked away in the bones during Physical Refinement its capacity is limited and once refined once cannot be replaced if lost prior to breaking through to Mantra Seed. it also exists for Spiritual Cultivators in the form of qi that fuses with their vital organs during Qi Refinement and aside from the difference in location is otherwise identical.
=== Compound Qi ===
natural combinations of elemental and Yin and Yang qi that are stable enough to have their own identities. examples include Wind Qi, Rain qi, Light Qi, Dark Qi and so on.
=== Myriad Elements Qi ===
a more comprehensive aspect of 'elemental qi'. it is rare in lower realms and even in great realms is much sought after. its purity is a magnitude over Five Elements Qi and has aspects of the entire element cycle within it rather than just singular and compound elements. 
=== True Qi's ===
Qi in its most fundamental states. it is largely unattributed. Spatial Qi along with some other weirder forces are forms or manifestations of True Qi.
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