Elements
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Shouldn't at least part of the canon be left to speculation and the talents of writers and MOCists?
I mean, with all due respect to Greg, there comes a point where there are just too many elements. If we have not passed that point yet, we're dang close to doing it.
Don't get me wrong, I like different elements and the diversity that they bring to the story. But the proposed addition of adding yet another one - another one, mind you, that's not tangible. I remember Greg once saying that an element is something that you can fire in a straight line if you are a Toa of aforementioned element. That makes me wonder how Kinetics would work - moving the air molecules around at high speed? No, air can do that already. So what does it do?
Also, suppose a Toa of Kinetics, a Toa of Psionics, and four different Toa were on a team. We all know that six elements combine to make Protodermis, right? Right. So, in theory, a combination of fire, water, ice, stone, pure movement ( 
), and brain waves (essentially what Psionics controls) could create Protodermis, and I have doubts about Psionics and Kinetics having any effect. Hello! Protodermis isn't alive, and neither are its constituent parts, and so I doubt any telekinetic or telepathic powers will have any effect on its creation.
Along this line of reasoning, Gravity also qualifies as an intangible, but I can see it working to create Protodermis.
You know something that makes a bit more sense: crystal. It's tangible, unlike any other element, exists, and yet it has not even gone close to coming into the canon. I don't know why that is.
I suppose I'll just have to get used to it if Kinetics is canonized, but until that point, if it comes, I'll be dead-set against it.
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