Element (TCG)

Please note: This article is about the forces that composed the world. For other uses of the term, please see Elements (disambiguation).
The Elements, Air, Earth, Fire, Void and Water, composed the world. Legend of the Five Rings - Roleplaying, p. 8 They were in a precarious balance during the times of conflict threatened Rokugan. Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game The elements were created after the Nothing, who through fear, desire, and regret, was fragmented into ten thousand shards of reality, which coalesced into the jealous gods and the warring elements. Whispers of Shadow and Steel, by Mari Murdock
== Rings ==
These elements, also called rings, were represented in the sacred spirits of the land and the natural world, but also in society and the human psyche. Each ring corresponded to the following set of concepts: Legend of the Five Rings - Roleplaying, pp. 32-34 Beginner Game: Rulebook, p. 3
* Air: represented a graceful, cunning, and precise personality.
* Earth: represented aptitude for taking a steady, thorough, and grounded approach to problems.
* Fire: represented a ferocious, direct, and inventive personality.
* Water: represented an adaptable, powerful, and perceptive personality.
* Void: represented a centered, unflinching personality; it could also represent the “flow state.”
== Shinseist View on the Elements ==
Shinsei believed that each phenomenon that existed had a cause, or origin. Each of the four manifest elements had its origin in another element, the elements all had their origin in the Void, and the Void that would come at the end of all things had its origin in the four manifest elements. Yet, the division of the elements was an illusion, as was all of the Realm of Mortals. All came from the Void and returned to the Void: therefore, the Void was all. In this way, all existence was linked, the distinctions between the Elements, and between all living things, were an illusion. Emerald Empire: The Essential Guide to Rokugan, p. 166
Category:Magic and Religion (TCG)
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