Personalitys and more info of the elements

Fire is most commonly depicted as a destructive but a life-giving element and wielded by characters with an aggressive disposition and a warm and passionate personality. Environments with an affinity to fire tend to be hot, hostile and dangerous. Fire is invariably opposed by water.

Water is often depicted as a restorative element, due to its real-life importance in sustaining life. Characters with an affinity to water are often peaceful, although many have shown a propensity for violence when provoked. Water environments tend to be serene and abundant with life. Water is opposed by fire.

Earth is depicted as an element of stability, and is often wielded by characters who are physically strong or imposing. Characters aligned with this element can have tendencies toward either passive or aggressive behavior. Its environment can be either barren with soil or with abundance in life. Earth is naturally opposed to air.

Air (also referred to as wind) is depicted as an element of freedom and caprice, and is often wielded by carefree or whimsical characters. Characters aligned with this element tend to emphasize speed over strength. Where environments have an affinity to air tend to be at high elevations or actually suspended in the air. Air exists in opposition to earth.

Ice
Most often a derivation of water, ice is sometimes treated as its own element. Characters aligned with ice are more likely to bear a cruel disposition, and exhibit more aggressive behaviors. Environments with an affinity to ice also tend to be more hostile and treacherous to navigate, not unlike icy environments in the real world.

Light/Holy
Light in fiction is depicted as the element of goodness or truth, such that is often coterminous with "Holy", as in the Final Fantasy series of video games. Light/Holy can have either restorative or destructive tendencies, most often a threat to those aligned with "evil" or "darkness". It is also commonly associated with life and the living. Characters with an affinity to light are often portrayed as physically appealing and/or non-threatening, and are looked upon with favor by the rest of the world.

Shadow/Darkness
Shadow or Darkness as an element in fiction tends to be associated with the forces of evil, or at least with those maligned by most of the world. It is also commonly associated with death and the dead (or undead). Characters with an affinity to shadow or darkness are often physically unappealing or intimidating, all the more reason for them to be detached from society. Wielders of this element are almost always powerful and present some kind of threat to the world.


Electricity/Lightning
Electricity, also regarded as a derivation of air and/or fire, is sometimes treated as a separate element. Like characters aligned with air, those aligned with electricity or lightning can be whimsical, but, like fire, it has a greater penchant for aggression and is very energetic. Electricity is often the bane of machines and mechanical characters.


Sound/Sonic
Sound is not often depicted as a separate element, as those who control it are more likely to be aligned with air – an example being Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War who had the ability to suppress all sound within a certain radius. When sound is treated as a separate element, it may be for the sake of Thunder, which can be – as in stories about the gods Raijin and Fūjin – a complement to Lightning.


Plants/Flora
Either a derivation of earth or a separate element, it mostly connects and concerns with all life. Its attributed characteristics are various in earth characteristics like an appreciator of nature, philosophical, but a little bit stubborn, often detatches off from the world and sometimes refuses to cooperate or share ideas with others. Also, plant characteristics has the potency to be feral, but can be also tame. In Wuxing, it is a major element, replacing air. Its attributes can be strong and flexible at the same time, like a bamboo, and has a warm and expansive character. It is nourished by water and it ignites fire. It outgrows earth but is shredded off by metal.


Heart/Love
As a separate element, often connected to/replacing spirit, heart draws an ethereal energy of emotions. It has the tendency to communicate and control every creature, understand one's emotion and can bring someone to fall in love. Though some judge it as the least powerful element, its power is immeasurable and unlimited if the wielder searches his/her heart. And as it can relate to flora, heart can have the ability to communicate and to control wildlife. Common characteristics align from emotional to cold, depending on the wielder, open-hearted and open-minded, easily infatuated, empathic to life, and many more. Users of the element of love and empathy range from Ma-ti, the voice of reason of the Planeteers, to Will Vandom, leader of the W.I.T.C.H.

Elementals are beings either born from or with a strong affinity to one or more elements, and often with a debilitating weakness to opposing elements. Elementals are usually anthropomorphic or humanoid in shape; however, their manifestation is the element they represent, such as an earth elemental having a body of stone, or a fire elemental being a living flame or a dark figure enshrouded by smoke and fire.