xienwolf
Deity
First off: It isn't MY chart, I just linked it in my Signature so that more people would see it 
I am not entirely sure where Kael first found it, but it was posted for people to view way back before Fire I think, and mostly forgotten. I was lucky enough to catch a thread where an old-timer was looking for it
You aren't looking at Entropy, Ice, Creation & that branch quite right I fear. I had been just doing a quick/short blurb when I posted earlier so may have been partially responsible for misleading you.
Sun & Fire vs Shadow & Water: There is also the element of Energy to these ones. The Sun & Fire give energy, while the Shadow & Water take it.
Life, Nature & Creation vs Death, Ice & Entropy: The driving elements here are most likely generation opposed to stagnation. Something using the energy which it has vs something losing that energy.
Body & Earth vs Spirit & Air: The Body & Earth are both the Solid, the Physical. Raw embodiment & concentration of Energy & Power. Spirit & Air are ephemereal and vague, a loose connection to Energies and powers beyond a single entity.
Chaos, Enchantment & Dimensional vs Law, Mind & Force: For the Chaos branch you are using any energy randomly and spuriously, just grabbing randomly, then enticing it from other sources, and finally looking beyond what others can percieve. While for the Law branch you are ordering things and approaching in a rational manner, first by allowing others to order themselves, then by striving to make order form naturally in spite of others, and finally by being personally in control of the order.
Thus the cycle is largely about Energy and how it is controlled/used, which would naturally be of great interest to people who must bend the mystical energies to their will on a daily basis. How you approach this is just as important as why.
We start at the top & Move clockwise it results in:
Generation
Storage
Acquisition
Retention
Loss
Dispersion
Regulation
Sharing
And of course as I am not the one directly responsible for creating the chart, this is just my take on it. But I feel it is quite reasonably close to the original intent.
I am not entirely sure where Kael first found it, but it was posted for people to view way back before Fire I think, and mostly forgotten. I was lucky enough to catch a thread where an old-timer was looking for it You aren't looking at Entropy, Ice, Creation & that branch quite right I fear. I had been just doing a quick/short blurb when I posted earlier so may have been partially responsible for misleading you.
Sun & Fire vs Shadow & Water: There is also the element of Energy to these ones. The Sun & Fire give energy, while the Shadow & Water take it.
Life, Nature & Creation vs Death, Ice & Entropy: The driving elements here are most likely generation opposed to stagnation. Something using the energy which it has vs something losing that energy.
Body & Earth vs Spirit & Air: The Body & Earth are both the Solid, the Physical. Raw embodiment & concentration of Energy & Power. Spirit & Air are ephemereal and vague, a loose connection to Energies and powers beyond a single entity.
Chaos, Enchantment & Dimensional vs Law, Mind & Force: For the Chaos branch you are using any energy randomly and spuriously, just grabbing randomly, then enticing it from other sources, and finally looking beyond what others can percieve. While for the Law branch you are ordering things and approaching in a rational manner, first by allowing others to order themselves, then by striving to make order form naturally in spite of others, and finally by being personally in control of the order.
Thus the cycle is largely about Energy and how it is controlled/used, which would naturally be of great interest to people who must bend the mystical energies to their will on a daily basis. How you approach this is just as important as why.
We start at the top & Move clockwise it results in:
Generation
Storage
Acquisition
Retention
Loss
Dispersion
Regulation
Sharing
And of course as I am not the one directly responsible for creating the chart, this is just my take on it. But I feel it is quite reasonably close to the original intent.
Traditional elemental magic division refer to the state of matter rather then atomic consist so Ice is an equivalent of Earth.
