A bit of help: Opposites of the 5 elements?

[Pilgrim]

Folks,
I exposed this to people and they're interested.
I'm playing with ideas and I need a little help: A tainted hell version of Celestial, one where it is the opposite of the nanotech used in Celestial. Can you come up with any oppositions (not the cycle of changes or how the 5 oppose each other in Taoist mythology, but opposites) or twisted versions of them to represent the Elements used by demons and their servants.

Any ideas?

[indra]

As I recall, many philospohers added "Void" to the list of elements. One approach you could take is to apply that concept to each element in turn. (Your "demons" could be computer viruses that disrupt nanotech or extradimensional beings that sap energy from our universe.)

Fire is voided by the cold vacuum of Space.
Wood is voided by disease (see Miasma (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasma_theory_of_disease)).
Metal is voided by noise (i.e. static on the nanonetwork).
... not sure about the other two. What voids gravity and inanimate matter?

--Dan

[ozbot]

Fire/Cold and Wood/Disease (I might define as "rot) are perfect choices. The Metal/Noise(static) is pretty inspired, too. For earth (inanimate matter) it's obvious that anti-matter would work, although the in-game effects for such might have to be predefined (like it "melts" objects or disintegrates/explodes them. For water (which you are equating with gravity) perhaps Magnetism, in the sense of repelling objects rather than attracting them, although magnetism might work for the opposite of Metal, too, since it it could warp metal/disrupt circuitry. How about friction? Again, in-game effects might vary.

(Loved the Celestial setting, BTW. As an artist, I can see it has a "look" all its own, resplendant, colorful, organic, a hybrid between ancient and futuristic. Brilliant!)

[Pilgrim]

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=323677

[indra]

Loved the Celestial setting, BTW. As an artist, I can see it has a "look" all its own, resplendant, colorful, organic, a hybrid between ancient and futuristic. Brilliant! I found myself at a loss to describe the Resplendant Carnival. All that swarming, technicolor chaos... it boggles the mind.

--Dan