[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/p6bwUmp.png[/img] [/center][hr][hr] [hider=Abstraction Symbolism Cheat-sheet] [sup][b]Note:[/b] This is not a guide or anything like that. You're free to come up with symbolism and your own interpretations of what's below and I've probably gone against it a few times myself. This is just how [i]I[/i] interpret mechanics n' shit about abstractions.[/sup] [table][row][/row][row][cell][h3][b]Elemental Abstractions:[/b][/h3][sup]_______________________________________________[/sup] [b]In general:[/b] Connection to the world, creativity, focus on the outside, being outrospective, desire to build/shape, change. [b]Fire:[/b] Passion, rage, raw and destructive emotion. [b]Water:[/b] Calmness/Peace, easily influenced, having multiple states. [b]Ice:[/b] Sadness, death, fridigity. [b]Earth/Metal/Crystals:[/b] Confidence, pride, inner-strength, leader. [b]Sand:[/b] Time, patience, abrasiveness, flexibility. [b]Air:[/b] Mobility/Flexibility, spirituality, logic, destructiveness. [b]Soil/Dirt/Dust:[/b] Progress/productivity, old patterns, misery. [b]Lightning/Electricity/Storm:[/b] Fear/worries, energetic, wild. [b]Flowers/Plants:[/b] Love/intimacy, patience, compassion, new beginnings, desire to see things grow. [b]Ash:[/b] Loss, death, penance. [b]Glass:[/b] Fragility, sight. [b]Darkness:[/b] [s]Being an edgelord,[/s] nothing/empitness, loss. [b]Light:[/b] Happiness, hope, desiring notice/sharing information. [b]Paper:[/b] Worthlessness, having something that needs to be done, [b]Ink/Paint:[/b] Creativity, intellect. [b]Wood:[/b] Wisdom, having built up something. [b]Ocean:[/b] Chaos, unchanging, calmness/peace. [b]Sound:[/b] Creativity, happiness/love, connection, desired to be understood/listened to. [b]Stars/Cosmic:[/b] Dreams, change, ambition. [b]Plastic:[/b] Moldable, fakeness, insincerity. [b]Fabric/Clothes:[/b] Individuality, value, taking opinions in high regard. [b]Transmutation:[/b] Desire to change things, dissatisfaction with how things are. [h3][b]Mental Abstractions[/b][/h3][sup]_______________________________________________[/sup] [b]In General:[/b] Introspectiveness, knowledge/desire to understand/learn, open-mindedness, awareness. [b]Telekinesis:[/b] Control, intelligence, outwardness, mastering self. [b]Telepathy:[/b] Invasiveness/lack of boundaries, desire to communicate, wanting information/secrets. [b]Inventor/Gadgeteer[/b] Desire to find a solution to a problem, having a singular goal that cannot be solved with the present tools. [b]Intelligence/Minds:[/b] Lack of knowledge, perceived worthlessness, presented with problems that cannot be physical solve. [b]Dreams:[/b] Imaginative, wishes, interpretiveness. [b]Memory:[/b] Stress/past grievances, desire to forget/inform, desire to change things, looking to the past, external struggle. [b]Emotion[/b] Compassion, understanding people (or lack thereof), closer connection to people, internal struggle. [b]Mind Control:[/b] Desire to control, feeling out of control, social isolation/exile. [b]Illusions:[/b] Deception (on both sides), belief/thought being proven wrong, desire for something that cannot be gained. [/cell][cell][h3][b]Other Abstractions[/b][/h3][sup]_______________________________________________[/sup] [b]Animal:[/b] Noticeable lack of connection to people, outcast, connection to nature/love of nature. (This was going to be its own section but I was like nope fuck that lol) [b]Summoning/Minion Creation:[/b] Desire for companionship, social isolation/exile. [b]Transformation/Shape-Shifting:[/b] Issues involving identity, self-hatred/wanting to be different. [b]Teleportation:[/b] Feeling trap/stuck, desire to escape, needing something. [b]Speed:[/b] Impatience, desire to get to goal instantly, has problem approaching, a problem that can be ran from, down to earth. [b]Flight:[/b] Needing to reach goals/expectations, freedom, idealism. [b]Strength:[/b] Being faced with situations that can't be mentally solved, violence/rage, perceived lack of strength/desire to grow stronger, authority. [b]Healing/Repairing:[/b] Desire to help people, compassion/kindness, other people's mental scars/past trauma, seeing beauty in something, restoring something else. [b]Regeneration:[/b] Desire to fix self, fixing own mental/physical wounds, a goal that they need to see through, self-restoration. [b]Time:[/b] Past/Future mistakes, pressure of time, having limited time, lack of management [b]Shields:[/b] Protection/desire to protect, danger/damage, caring, imminent threat to self. [b]Creation/Building:[/b] The need for something, wanting to build up something new, creativity/self-expression, having problems. [b]Close-Range:[/b] Immediate up in your face issue/question, close and personal problems/struggles, problems/solutions being in reach, single or few problems/threats. [b]Long-Range:[/b] Looming/upcoming problems, threats approaching/attacking from a distance, multiple threats/problems, things being out of reach. [b]Enchanting/Imbuing:[/b] Inadquency, current tools not being sufficient. [b]Beam:[/b] Focusing on one thing/task. [b]Enhanced Senses:[/b] Desiring awareness or understanding of environmental/task. [b]Stealth:[/b] Hiding, secretiveness, unwanted attention, isolation. [b]Death/Necromancery:[/b] Loss of family/friend, mourning, going to dark corners, [s]also being an edgelord[/s]. [b]Extra-Normal Related:[/b] Knowledge of the supernatural, problem/goal/question related to the extra-normal, desire to interact with the extra-normal. [/cell][/row][/table][/hider]