Before there was matter, there was A•OM’s own division: the POINT splitting the VOID, one dimension become eleven, one identity stretched into a cosmos. Deepest among those eleven, curled tight at the smallest possible scale, sits the Elemental Plane, a torus of substance and temperature where Water, Fire, Earth, and Air first stood apart from one another. From those four, all else was born.

Water shed a daughter, Hydrogena;

The son that Fire did sire was Helios;

Earth had given birth to one called Lithos;

The heiress of Air was Beryllia.

Boros, and Carbos, and Nitrogena,

Oxygena, Fluorina and Neos…

When all are counted, one hundred twenty

Elements in Urthe’s alchemical sphere.

This is the study of that inheritance, matter’s own family tree, sorted by shell and by kind:

Basic Elements

The first thirty, mythic and elemental, from Hydrogen’s first spark to Zinc’s soft close, the substances every smith, cook, and hedge-alchemist already knows by hand.

Atypic Elements

The next thirty, rarer and stranger, where common metallurgy gives way to the first true reagents of detection, transmutation, and craft.

Attic Elements

Thirty more, crowned by the Mantic elements, eleven metals, eleven senses, each one a different way of perceiving what would otherwise stay hidden.

Exotic Elements

The final thirty, orphic and legendary, where matter shades into radiance, decay into power, and the table itself closes, at Phlogiston.