Cultivation recognized eleven elements. Alongside them stood the non-element attribute, making twelve attributes by which the properties of skills and abilities could be grouped. A skill's attribute mattered both when it struck an enemy and when it met a defense.
These eleven elements had three tiers, according to their superiority.
Tier 1 comprised the six fundamental elements: earth, water, fire, wind, wood, and metal.
Tier 2 consisted of three advanced elements: ice, poison, and lightning, which were the combination of two elements from Tier 1.
Ice's base elements were water and metal.
Poison was fire and wood combined.
And lightning was from wind and earth.
There were two Tier 3 elements: light and dark, which stood above the rest of the elements.
Just as water prevailed against fire, each element had an advantage over one element and a weakness against another. The relationships among the fundamental elements formed a cycle:
Earth blocked water.
