The Aspects

All magic present within the world can be categorized into one of 16 categories, know as the Aspects. There are eight base Aspects, each associated with an elder Aspect. Mages call upon the power of an Aspect to cast spells, and each spell channels a specific component of that Aspect, called a Facet. The eight base Aspects are as follows:
Fire(Excil): The Aspect of fire is one of duality. It is capable of nourishing life, healing wounds, and uplifting the flames of the soul to power unimaginable. At the same time, it brings destruction, hunger unending, and scourges away all it encounters into gray ash. It is commonly employed by battle mages, healers, alchemists, and slaughterers.
Associated elder Aspect: Divinity(Ulnarix)

Water(Anno): The Aspect of water is fluid and ever-changing. It can be calm and peaceful as a stream or as violent and devouring as the ocean depths. Anno mages are found everywhere, from the expanses of the sea to rain-drenched forests to frozen taiga. Its Facets influence the weather and the tides, but also the body. A skilled mage can empower their flesh while controlling others, and can deliver death with a gesture.
Associated elder Aspect: Time(Chronir)

Stone(Micir): The Aspect of stone is pervasive and ever-present. Within its domain is nearly all inorganic matter, and it forms the very foundation of the world. It is favored by craftsmen and battle mages alike, and there are countless magical traditions dedicated to the Aspect across the world. At its highest levels, Micir Facets manipulate matter on a fundamental level, capable of rearranging atoms at will.
Associated elder Aspect: Prescience(Angon)

Air(Kodon): The Aspect of air envelopes Almata, and is most responsible for sustaining life as death comes quick to those without. Kodon Facets are often tied to the weather and sky, and has a large overlap with Anno. Storm seers are in-demand regardless of locale, as favorable weather can mean the difference between feast and famine. Air also governs the senses, and even novice air mages have great acuity in surveying their surroundings. The greatest air mages can summon and manipulate enormous storms that deliver untold devastation as they soar the skies with ease.
Associated elder Aspect: Mind(Oxys)

Nature(Ilo): The Aspect of nature governs living things and the ways they grow and evolve. Its Facets govern plants, fungi, animals, and more uncertain categories of connection, cancer, and death. Ilo mages often live in close conjunction with the earth and its denizens. Among farming communities, the local Ilo wiseman or wisewoman are integral members responsible for maintaining soil fertility and tending to the sick. The greatest practitioners blend the lines between species and are capable of shaping entirely new beasts. In conflict, Ilo is horrifying. Bio and chemical weapons turn the body against itself at stunning speed, while plagues wrack the land.
Associated elder Aspect: Shape(Noron)

Inverse(Rhodis): Inverse is the strangest Aspect to describe, and actively works against how the conventional universe functions. In Rhodis, cold is not the absence of heat, but increases in the presence of sashoam, a sort of magical particle that manifests when casting a Rhodis spell. Sashoam creates cold and airlessness, and even moderate amounts are deadly. Finally, sashoam also devours light, meaning that Rhodis governs, broadly, the domains of cold, vacuum, and darkness. Unsurprisingly, Rhodis attracts those who thrive in shadow and do not fear the chill. The most powerful of Rhodis Facets are capable of manipulating the sashoam in extreme ways, creating violent energies and strange constructs that deft conventional explanation.
Associated elder Aspect: Soul(Iranavoc)

Light(Arahayl): The Aspect of light is one of searing energies and thrumming power. It brings life and illumination and death and annihilation in equal turn. Arahayl is generally regarded as the most powerful Aspect, but also to b the most difficult to learn. While lesser Facets manipulate visible light to bring illumination and illusions, the greater powers are those of deadly light-fire, radiation, and nuclear energies. The most powerful Facets can manipulate the stars themselves and turn matter into energy. The greatest wielders of Arahayl upon Almata were the Incandesce, who were defeated only by betrayal and the loss of their sorcery.
Associated elder Aspect: Antimatter(Elaron)

Gravity(Runil): Runil is the Aspect of attraction, cohesion, and crushing singularity. It is perhaps the least understood Facet, even compared to the likes of Arahayl and Rhodis. In general, the Facets of Runil allow for the manipulation of gravitic forces and orientations. The Runil mage can create weightlessness, crushing tethers of force, and entire areas of strange gravity. The upper Facets allow a mage to create points with such density that objects and entities are drawn toward them, or manipulate gravitic forces of such magnitude targets are literally ripped apart. The greatest Facet allows generation of a black hole, devastating regions of inescapable gravity effective at subduing even light.
Associated elder Aspect: Space(Naidalon)