Elemental Fury Styles

The Elemental Fury Styles is the name used to reference four extremely ancient styles collectively.

## History

It started simply: four masters, human yet not. They had come not simply to teach, but to learn themselves. Others came, humans, eager to learn, and together with the masters the schools began to take shape. Each had its own grander focus, and discipline that differentiated it from the others, while at the same time complementing them. In time the styles too form and grew at a phenomenal rate. Lead by the four, each was honed to perfection and beyond. Then, when the human body could be pushed no further, there came the final form, and with it destruction and madness.

A miscalculation on the fours part. They were not infallible. They came to aid humanity in its development. However, they were new to the four. They had to experiment. The last did not go well and millions were killed. Contrary to popular belief, there are others that live on this world, others more powerful, more developed than humanity. They attempted to stop the four and paid dearly. The four nearly annihilated one, leaving but a single survivor, and decimated the others. Only at such a cost could they be stopped. When the four were reborn and once again awoke, the cost was nearly as horrific. Now they lack the power to stop them. They had no choice but to ensure the four would never reach maturity again.

## Overview

As the name implies the styles revolve around Elemental Combat and while there are the names given to many so called elemental styles. Do not mistake them as being equals however, for they are not. They are but poor imitations. The styles were incredibly advanced for the time they appeared in, and even modern techniques have yet to equal them.

There are many conflicting ideas of why they were so advanced. Some say the four original masters were gods, come to Earth to empower us humans. Others believe the masters were travelers through time. Still other hypothesize that perhaps they were aliens. Whichever is truly correct is unimportant. What is important is that they outdid themselves.

For reasons still unknown, the styles and all who knew them were suddenly wiped from the face of the Earth. What is known is that they did not fall quietly. It is said a battle occurred. Estimates vary of the exact power levels involved, but the general consensus is that it was unlike anything the Earth has seen it all its time, before or since.

Collectively, they even exceed the power of a nuclear weapon. How powerful an individual was is hard to say, and that is where most of the contention comes from. An individual who knows at least one style has considerable power, as strong as a modern martial artist with 100 years or more of experience.

None of the Elemental Fury Styles are superior overall. They are all equal in their own way, with strengths and weaknesses that most often appose their opposite. Another difference they have is their unifications:

1. Storm is VERY fast to unify but is the shortest duration at a max of 15 min.
2. Quake can be maintained for a full day, but takes a full hour of constant concentration to unite.
3. Infernos is interesting in that it actually merges in the physical bodies, keeping them safe, but at the cost of having a 3 day cool down even for the briefest of usages.
4. Blizzard has essentially no cool down, as you can re-unite as you wish, BUT it taxes the bodies of the two components to the point that even after 2 unites you're risking serious harm to do a 3rd in quick succession, and a 4th is pretty much guaranteed to cause permenant harm if not death.

## Special Techniques

* **Unification**: This is the Ultimate technique of the Elemental Fury Style. The human body has inherent limits of physical form. To transcend those limits it is necessary to abandon the body. Yet to do this safely, a single human spirit is not enough. Instead two must be used. But this opens up a great opportunity. Usually this means awakening the planetary spirit within the Soon Li. However in theory it is also possible to use the principle of the technique to merge two separate beings into one. Two warriors can be trained separately and gain a separate set of skills, each leading to this ultimate point. When combined, their spirits will have not only transcended physical form, but gained the knowledge and skill of both the warriors. It’s at it best, in theory, when used by two people with totally different skill sets and knowledge. The technique is not permanent, the two beings would return to their former existence in a short time, perhaps a few minutes. Still for those brief moments a new warrior will be formed with unmatched ability, at least among humans.