***  The Science of Magic  ***
                                     Volume I Issue I

	As you know, the magic we use is made up of distinct elements.  These 
elements are actually oppose of what we think.  For example, when you cast a 
Flame spell, what element are you manipulating?  If you think its fire, think
again.  When you make a ball of flames, you are manipulating the element 
water.  Everything in the world is at an elemental balance.  Fire counters 
Water just as Air counters Earth and Light counters Darkness.  When the 
balance is disrupted, one of the elements takes dominance over it's opposite
and manafests itself in our world.  When you make a Flame spell, you are removing
the water from a certain area, giving fire dominance and thus causing fire to
manafest itself into our world.  The elements around where the fire has manaefested
will quickly compensate by creating water.  That is why when you cast a fire spell
that does not hit something, the flames disappear.  Novice casters have trouble
balancing the elements and the flame, using the same example, would either be
compensated before doing any real damage or the balance of the elements would not be 
disrupted at all, causing no fire.  When one's magical strength is greater, they can
shift the balance of the elements to greater extremes, causing new levels of magical
strength.  But be careful, because the greatest levels of magic, the forbidden spells 
such as the Kamikaze Bolt, require great magical strength to not only cast the spell, 
but to prevent it from consuming the caster.  The energy output is too great for a 
human to channel and will kill the caster.  Thus it is the Kamikaze Bolt.  Do not 
try this at home kids.

	The following is a listing of the elements, their opposites, and a brief
description of how they work.

        Spell________Opposite__Description______________________________________________
	|-Fire_______|Water____|Harnesses the power of heat.  Effective against animals.|
        |-Water*_____|Fire_____|Harnesses the giver of life.  Effective against animals.|
	|-Air**______|Earth____|Harnesses the first heaven.  Effective against mecs.____|
	|-Earth______|Air______|Harnesses the ground that we live on.  Effective against|
	|______________________|Fire and Water base elements.  Cannot harm air elements.|
	|-Holy_______|Darkness_|Harnesses power of divine light.  Very little is known._|
	|-Darkness___|Holy_____|Harnesses spirits.  Little is known about this element._|
	|-Nature_____|Poison___|Harnesses the forests and nature in general.  Can not be| 
	|____________|_________|used by humans due to our treatment of nature.__________|
	|-Poison_____|Nature___|Human created element that attacks immune system._______|
	|-Pressure___|????_____|There is no known data on this element._________________|
	|-Neutral____|None_____|When the elements are at balanced, they are neutral.____|


*The element water is most commonly produced in the form of ice because the circumstance
for its creation requires no Fire, which means no heat, thus the water freezes upon 
manefestation.
**When air is conjured, it causes great conflict with the air in the area it is conjured,
resulting in static electricity, or Lightening.