Elvish element

The Elvish elements are a philosophical framework that divides the forces of the world into three categories: nwyfre, gwyar, and calas.
Nwyfre represents life-force and consciousness: the future, the full moon, the sprouting of a ley-line, the color white. It is the spark of life that causes the sprouting of seeds, the birth of a Soul, the first flicker of an idea that will shape an age to come.
Spells that draw most heavily upon nwyfre are those that ask the gods to deal direct influence or damage within the mortal realm: spells that include guardian of faith, spiritual weapon, flame strike, and protection from evil and good. To call nwyfre upon one's opponent requires constant conviction that the gods' goals are aligned with one's own. For those who hold deeply rooted convictions, this can create some of the most powerful possible spells in a cleric's handbook; for those whose faith wavers or whose gods misalign with their own personal goals, nwyfre-reliant spells can easily become worse than useless.
Gwyar represents change, movement, and flow: the path of a river, the tides of the seas, the twisting turbulence of a ley-line's magic, the pulse of a heartbeat, the colors red and blue, the budding of a flower soon to grow on the stem. It is the waxing and waning of the moon, the emergence of a butterfly from its chrysalis, the growth of a child and the inevitable stoop of an old man, the crescent moon, the spring and fall, the ebb and flow of all things.
Gwyar's greatest strength is in magic that can heal, transform, or otherwise alter the natural flow of time. Healing spells such as cure wounds and healing word call upon it, as do transmutation spells like polymorph and haste. At its best, gwyar allows the cruel flow of time to show kindness towards the moral arc of the universe, healing and resurrecting those who never would have otherwise seen a fair chance in their battles. At its worst, gwyar speeds the destructive power of the necromancers and other puppetmasters who would use the flow of entropy and rot towards their own selfish ends.
Calas represents solidity, stability, and structure. While a celestial may be pure nwyfre, and the fey are gwyar incarnate, calas is the stuff of mortals: it is the strong and yet fragile physical matter of which all of us are made. It is stone, it is earth, it is plant matter, it is the dark night sky, it is the Material Plane. The feel of the soil through one's fingers is calas, as are the grasping urges of flesh against flesh. Calas is the new moon, the lack of magic, the farmer's sense of time, the heft of a weapon in a warrior's hand.
Calas is the most difficult of the three elements to bend to one's own will, given its fundamentally stable nature. The Circles of the Land turn their focus towards calas, though the philosophy (to its purest form) necessitates holding to the boundaries of what mortals can prosper from.

Type

Metaphysical, Elemental