NotaNuffian
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Brainfart as I shit out black ichor, what is fire?
To put in layman terms, something (the fuel) that got intro-ed with the oxygen and heat, which results in the something to break down into its oxide state, as well as releasing heat and light in the process.
But in magicland term, fire is hot and it burns. In xianxia terms, fire is used for forging, pill making and lighting enemies like birthday candles. In the former's term, the way of making a better fire, ie burning hotter, is to pump in more fuel or learning a more powerful magic. In the latter, fire got ranks; mortal, spirit, earthly and heavenly fires. And fire has elements, like ice fire, dark fire, fire fire, hellfire, etc.
But what is fire and how does it grow? For both examples, fire grows when their core temperature continues to increase to ludicrous levels like 50,000 c (90,000 f), hotter than the lightning. Or in some cases, just straight up upgrade fire into lightning or light. This is only my vague understanding talking and why is it vague has to stem from my thinkings from the basic element theories below.
The core four elements is always iffy to me (with the fifth element being cosmic ray) and the chinese five element is even worse (air or wind is put with wood cuz "wind is present as wood moves"...). While it is somewhat good by cross referrencing the two templates, with fire being its own group (plasma), water as liquid, earth as solid, air is gas, wood being life or nature and metal being buggerall. So by combining them together, I can come into the conclusion that I have no proper understanding of how shit works.
With aero-, hydro- and terra-kinesis, a level up would entail larger quantities of the element manipulated and/ or finer controls, it should be the same with manipulating plasma, but how is temperature controllable other than by energy manipulation?