Guide: Aspects

The system of Aspects suffuses all of Dopcom. These are the primordial substances and forces that make up the world and everything in it, and the pure essence of these aspects is what powers all known forms of magic. By using an appropriate location of power, these essences can be used to materialize powerful artifacts, materials, and even eggs, and many creatures and items are aligned to one or more aspects.

The twelve aspects that are commonly studied and used in summoning are as follows:

• The four Primary Elements

  • Air, associated with freedom, chaos, and transience
  • Fire, associated with direct, dramatic change and destruction and re-creation
  • Stone, associated with structure, stability, and physical matter
  • Water, associated with indirect and gradual change, perseverence, abundance, and flexibility

• The four Secondary Elements

  • Lightning, the synthesis of Air and Fire, associated with inspiration, experimentation, and physical illumination
  • Metal, the synthesis of Fire and Stone, associated with technology, artifice, strategy, precision, and commerce
  • Wood, the synthesis of Stone and Water, associated with plantlife, healing, and diversity
  • Frost, the synthesis of Water and Air, associated with stasis, simplicity, and prevention

• The four Higher Aspects

  • Sun, associated with light, majesty, creation, and overwhelming power
  • Moon, associated with knowledge, balance between extremes, and celestial bodies
  • Void, associated with secrecy, nullification or reversal, and the empty space between things
  • Heart, associated with passion, determination, love, blood, and animal life