Don't worry, looking at the title kind
of confuses me tool. Lol. But, it's something you'll pick up on
really quickly.
Why?
Because this subject has been covered
in a wide array of media, including Disney's most recent animated
endeavor. Frozen is the story
of the Ice Queen Elsa (her sister Anna and some boys are mentioned
too, I think) as she grows from frightened child into a frightened
adult who eventually embraces her abilities and sings a lovely
song about it. And, now you'll be singing that song all day,
courtesy of Indina Menzel and Disney.
Anyway,
Elsa is a cryokinetic. This basically means that she's a psychic
whose powers manifest as bursts of extremely cold energy which
freezes the water vapor in the air (this also makes it a subschool of
hydrokinesis, the ability to manipulate water). It's a spontaneous
ability that is tied, like all other things, to the emotions of it's
wielder, and if their emotions are chaotic and uncontrollable, such
as Elsa who spent most of her life as a recluse and terrified of
herself, then their powers are going to be chaotic and
uncontrollable.
Example:
Elsa in public for the first time in fifteen years and her little
sister tells her she got engaged after knowing a guy for less than
fifteen minutes. Elsa, understandably enough, flew off the handle and
her powers went wild. That caused the crowd around her to freak out
and cry witchcraft and sorcery, and Elsa got afraid. That drove her
powers further and further out of her control. Then she ran away and
caused an eternal winter, or something like that.
And,
another popular example of a cryokinetic: Frozone from The
Incredibles. And, Ice Man from
the X-men.
But,
cryokinesis isn't the only elemental psychokinetic power possible.
You
have pyrokinetics like the Human Torch of the Fantastic Four and
Charlie McGee from the Stephen King novel Firestarter.
(It's also Mr. King we have to thank for the word pyrokinetic, and
any derivatives thereof. Such as words that replace the prefix pyro
or tele with another prefix implying some other element.)
You
have terrakinetics like Terra from the Teen Titans series.
And
Hydrokinetics such as Aquaman, Mermaidman, and Percy Jackson (along
with the aforementioned cryokinetics).
Aerokinesis=
Storm from X-men. (The technical definition of her power is Weather
Manipulation, this, however is a subschool of Air Manipulation as all
weather phenomena (with the exception of earthquakes and volcanoes)
involve the air in one state of being or another.)
Then
you have Benders. This, so far as I can tell, is an Asian term (not
sure which culture; my apologies for lack of accuracy) for an
individual who can control the elements in one way or another.
There
is one thing I would like to note, however. However much it may look
like sorcery or magic, it's not. Elemental kinesis is a psychokinetic
ability controlled strictly by the mind and instinct. Think of the
media you've seen. Can the Human Torch turn himself invisible and
teleport from one sid eof the earth to the other. No, he can't, lol.
Because his powers are of the mind, not the arcane. It is, however,
possible that Johnny Storm could learn how to use the arcane. If he
can keep his you-know-what in his pants long enough to study.
Anywho,
I'm out.
And,
later, I might try to explain how all of this fits into Pathfinder
and Dungeons and Dragons. That is, after I do some research and
figure it out for myself. Lol.
Ryan
5-22-14