Elements

**Elements** are natural essences found within the world of *The Legend of Spyro*. These elements emit from tangible things like ice and stone to more indistinct forces like fire and electricity. Dragons are known to draw power from these magical substances and harness them as their own elemental abilities, commonly as breath weapons.

Throughout the trilogy, Spyro is taught the elements of Fire, Electricity, Ice and Earth. In *The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon*, four other elements are given to Cynder. The element of Aether is the signature power of Purple Dragons. When a purple dragon masters the elements of Fire, Earth, Electricity and Ice, they will be able to tap into the power of Aether.

## Obtaining Elements

A dragon can obtain their elements when faced with emotional traumas or threatening events. In *The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning*, Spyro was repeatedly exposed to danger and alarming sights, which instinctively unlocked his different elemental breaths, such as when his foster brother Sparx was in mortal danger or when Spyro himself became trapped inside an old bell on Munitions Forge.

When a purple dragon masters the elements of Fire, Earth, Electricity and Ice, they will be able to tap into the power of Aether, their signature element.

When a dragon is exposed to the darkness of a powerful entity (like the fallen purple dragon Malefor), they can be gifted with abilities that are uncommon among dragons. Cynder was corrupted by Malefor's powerful dark magic, and due to the nature of her corruption process, she was given the power to use the elements of Poison, Fear, Shadow, and the Aether element; the latter which is restricted to the Purple Dragon breed.

## Harnessing Elements

While the most common way of using an element is to exhale it from the dragon's mouth, if trained properly, a Dragon can use their elements in any way they can imagine and release them from other parts of their bodies, allowing them to do "elemental melee" attacks such as comet dash. Each dragon can master only a single element, but Purple Dragons have the ability to master all of the elements and other abilities that aren't possible.

## List of Elements

* Fire
* Electricity
* Ice
* Earth
* Water
* Wind
* Aether
* Poison
* Fear
* Shadow

## Trivia

* In *A New Beginning*, some of the Earth elemental attacks involve Wind, implying that wind and earth may be interconnected.
* An entity of light created the elements of Fire, Ice, Electricity, Earth, Wind and Water, while a dark entity created uncommon elements such as Shadow, Poison and Fear.

## References

1. ↑ *TLoS Elemental Class Ice*. (Date Posted - Apr. 22, 2016). *DeviantArt*.
2. ↑ *TLoS Elemental Breath Weapons Aether*. (Date Posted - May 3, 2016). *DeviantArt*.
3. ↑ *Avatar Update*. (Date Posted - Apr. 15, 2016). *DeviantArt*.
4. ↑ *TLoS Elemental Class Fire*. (Date Posted - Apr. 21, 2016). *DeviantArt*.
5. ↑ *TLoS Elemental Breath Weapons Aether*. (Date Posted - May 3, 2016). *DeviantArt*.
6. ↑ *TLoS Elemental PowerUp Device*. (Date Posted - Apr 21, 2016). *DeviantArt*.
7. ↑ *Q&A with Jared Pullen Lead Concept Artist of TLoS*. (Date Posted - Aug 27, 2015). *DeviantArt*.

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