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In the past, it was thought that all of matter could be classified into easily viewable "elements" that one can observe with the naked eye. Thus, all of the world was made up of natural forces such as "earth, air, fire, water" et al. The discovery of the atom mostly disproved that, but the idea was so deeply rooted in mankind's mind, that it's still used in nearly every supernatural fictional setting (note that the classical elements actually correspond to a different scientific concept: the phases of matter, provided you count plasma as a fourth phase & not just as a subset of gas. Alternately, fire corresponds to ''energy,'' particularly the heat energy that moves matter from one state to another).
The most common use of '''Elemental Powers''' is to give characters some superpower over an aspect of
May involve the capability to summon [[Elemental Embodiment|Elementals]], the living embodiment of the elements themselves.
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