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Air moving with a considerable force from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure. Used in games to slow things down, speed them up, or make them hover.
An innate ability to control the behavior and direction of the air. This ability can also be used to create and control bursts of wind.
Pyromancers of the Bright Order are part of the Bright College of Magic in the Warhammer Universe.
Classes are different archetypes and playstyles that players can choose to play their game with.
While modern chemistry defines 118 atomic elements, video games more often deal with classical elements as described in ancient philosophy, mainly fire, water, earth, and air. In many games, each element is stronger against certain elements, but weaker against others.
The ability to generate, move, and shape soil, dirt, and rock with little to no physical contact.
Need a sword the burns your foes or a gun that zaps them with lightning? Then Elemental Weapons are the ones for you.
Supernatural beings that are created from and serve their respective elements.
Fire element means using magic or an ability associated with fire the most of the time. If any kind of magician uses fire-related spells this concept applies to it.
The ability to create, shape, and control fire at will. This is a common and well known power in fiction, its appearance dating back to ancient literature.
Weapons that use a freezing effect to damage opponents, slow them up, or freeze them solid.
The ability to control the direction and/or behavior of lightning; this may also be connected with the ability to generate lightning. Many games involve characters with lightning element attacks. These are unique because of their potency with water.
The concept of affecting the universe through supernatural methods, breaking the fundamental laws of science.
Psychic abilities are featured in many different video games and in many forms, from the PSI powers of Ness from Earthbound to the mind-reading abilities of Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid.
Yet another mage class, the Pyromancer specializes in harnessing the destructive domain of fire.
Mostly in games that involve strategy. It involves special attributes determining the strengths and weaknesses of each move, species, character or type. One attribute is strong against another attribute, and weak against another, often in a circular fashion.
One of three playable factions in the game Giants: Citizen Kabuto.
The supernatural power is often used by an Eastern wizard, miko, Taoist, exorcist... and so on.
A magickal spell that changes the target's skin into stone. Stone Skin increases the targets defense for the duration of the spell.
The strongest of all Atronachs, the Storm Atronach is a force to be reckoned with.
Summoning involves bringing a distant ally into battle to either perform a single, devastating attack or to fight on the behalf of the summoner.
A twister, or tornado, is a localized windstorm characterized by a rotating column of air resembling a funnel-shaped cloud.
In games they're often described as being masters of the dark arts. Basically, wizards gone bad.
Describes magicians using the element of ice. It's also valid for beings distinguished by elements, like dragons.
A biological entity with the innate ability to control the behavior and direction of water using little to no physical contact.
The ability to walk on water. Sometimes depending on a character's speed (IE slowing down will result in them sinking).
Variable and dynamic simulation of weather conditions can be used to add variety, atmosphere (a rainy day in an RPG) and/or challenge (rain on the racetrack in a driving game) to a game.
Being learned scholars and masters of the arcane arts, wizards wield great power by manipulating magical energy for the forces of good and evil.
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