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 //For some of the thoughts behind this topic, please see [[tirades:2019-07-01|the Avishraa Tirades]]//.
-**Element magic** is the most common of the eight [[chosen:magic:|types of magic]] to be found among the [[Chosen:]], and consists of the ability to directly move, shape, or manipulate a particular substance. Users of element magic are referred to in the [[avishraa:community:Citadel:]] as //elementalists//.
+**Element magic** is the most common of the eight [[chosen:magic:|types of magic]] to be found among the [[Chosen:]], and consists of the ability to directly move, shape, or manipulate a particular substance. Users of element magic are referred to in the [[geopolitical:Citadel:]] as //elementalists//.
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 The less solid the matter, the less ability there is to distinguish between natural classes. In other words, there are lots of natural classes to be found and used among solids, but rather less among liquids, and "air elementalists", in fact, can control just about any gas. Related to this, different phases of matter cannot occupy the same natural class; one can be a water elementalist or an ice elementalist, but not both. Also related to this is the fact that, the more solid something is, the more that "impurities" - things not in the class - matter to one's ability to control it. That means that items with a lot of components or unusually structured compositions may only be controllable by a few elementalists with extremely broad powers (such as just "metal"). It is partly for this reason that organic tissues and materials are almost never subject to element magic; they are too heterogeneous and usually too highly structured to fall easily into a natural class.
-In the context of the Citadel, where it is possible to closely observe the development of children, it has been determined that although elementalists appear to be born with their general magic type - as is the case with the other types - they appear to “latch on” to the element in which they specialize at around the age of one [[concept:timekeeping#cycle]]. The substance in question must be something they are being exposed to, and have the opportunity to “play” with using their magic, during this period of their lives. Children are somewhat more likely to attune to substances that surrounding adults treat as important, resulting in certain occupational and cultural slants; the child of a smith might be more likely to be able to control a kind of metal, [[culture:ethnicity:abethine:ǣdyihozhis|Ǣdyihòzhis]] elementalists might be more likely to control air or water, etc.
+In the context of the Citadel, where it is possible to closely observe the development of children, it has been determined that although elementalists appear to be born with their general magic type - as is the case with the other types - they appear to “latch on” to the element in which they specialize at around the age of one [[concept:timekeeping#cycle]]. The substance in question must be something they are being exposed to, and have the opportunity to “play” with using their magic, during this period of their lives. Children are somewhat more likely to attune to substances that surrounding adults treat as important, resulting in certain occupational and cultural slants; the child of a smith might be more likely to be able to control a kind of metal, [[ethnicity:abethine:ǣdyihozhis|Ǣdyihòzhis]] elementalists might be more likely to control air or water, etc.
 This being said, there is always the possibility of a case in which someone just happens to be exposed to something rare during childhood and becomes able to only control that thing, while never seeing it again in their life. If someone in the Citadel has all the other hallmarks of a Chosen and yet appears to have no magical abilities, something like this situation is assumed to be behind it.