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 There are some rules guiding the way Element magic works:
-  * While it is not understood why a child would become an elementalist at all (except that they're born to it), in the [[geopolitical:citadel:|Citadel]] it has been observed that young elementalists appear to "latch on" to their specialty around the age of one 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, [[geopolitical:ǣdyihozh:start|Ǣdyihòzhis]] elementalists might be more likely to control air or water, etc. (That said, there are always some oddities - someone just happens to be exposed to something rare during childhood and winds up only being able to control that thing and never sees it again in their life. If someone in the Citadel has all the other hallmarks of a Chosen and yet can't seem to do anything magical, something like this is assumed to be behind it.)
+  * While it is not understood why a child would become an elementalist at all (except that they're born to it), in the [[geopolitical:Citadel:]] it has been observed that young elementalists appear to "latch on" to their specialty around the age of one 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:Ǣdyihòzhis]] elementalists might be more likely to control air or water, etc. (That said, there are always some oddities - someone just happens to be exposed to something rare during childhood and winds up only being able to control that thing and never sees it again in their life. If someone in the Citadel has all the other hallmarks of a Chosen and yet can't seem to do anything magical, something like this is assumed to be behind it.)
   * Elementalists may only control matter: solids, liquids, or gases. (This does not //necessarily// exclude things like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics)|plasma]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutronium|neutronium]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate|Bose-Einstein condensates]], but I'd like to think that the kinds of adults willing and able to expose their kids to things like that long enough to latch onto them, especially in a pre-modern society, are the kind of adults who wouldn't successfully pass on their genes anyway.)
   * The type of substance being controlled must be a "natural class": the kind of thing it is must be something that exists without sophont intervention. For example, there are no ceramics elementalists, though there are probably clay elementalists; an elementalist might be able to control a ceramic teapot, but if so it's because of what the components of the ceramic are, rather than the ceramic itself.