User blog comment:Chaoarren/2000 Pages Element/Ailment Contest/@comment-27125903-20181126164244

Aether

"Dark and light are intertwined, think ocean and land, sun and moon, fire and water, earth and air, screen and keyboard, too much of either is deadly to all except its possessors"

The Aether element is the polar opposition of the canon Dragon element: the holy light to the pitch darkness of the dragon element. As the opposite of the dragon element, it functions exactly as so, instead of elemental/ailmental attributes being erased, they are instead boosted significantly but not in the sense that it helps you, as it is boosted way too much for the average hunter to handle and thus, harms the hunter as a result. The hunters weapon is engulfed in a white and creamy cloud effect that affects the wielder.

'Example:' A hunter with a fire elemental weapon with aetherblight will be blighted in similar fashion to fireblight except rolling won't erase it as it is the aetherblight that is causing the effect - or a hunter with a poison ailmental weapon with aetherblight will be poisoned, antidotes not being viable to cure you from it as you need to take out the aetherblight instead.

Extreme Aetherblight will erase any and all elemental/ailmental resistances and will also additionally erase/remove all food buffs.

'What Makes It Unique:' It is a whole element on its own rather than a hybrid and is the counterpart to the mythical Dragon element, adding another fictional element into the flavour.

'How Many Monsters Do You Think Can Cause It:' I imagine Aether to be much rarer than the Dragon element, but this ultimately depends on the creators and what they have planned on their monster roster and their elemental attributes. I do also imagine that it may perhaps be used mostly by monsters that are intended to counter elder dragons and elder dragon-levelled monsters although weaker monsters can use the element as-well, this decision is up to the creator.

How is it created, and how can it be cured? If it can't be cured, then why?: Similarly to dragonblight, you consume a nulberry to erase aetherblight.

'Where does your idea come from, and what does the name mean?:' Aether in a literary context is the clearness of the sky that is leagues above the clouds which is where its fanon-based attributes of holy and light come from due to the correlation between the clouds + the sky and heaven + angels.

How many pages have you planned that will use the idea?: A few if it does win (my first idea being an angelic-appearance based elder dragon, alongside a flying air whale leviathan).

Is there an icon for it? If so, please post it: Yes



'Note:' Similarly to the Dragon element, the Aether element is mysterious and there is no confirmed explanation on what it is: it being rarer than the Dragon element makes it even more unknown to guild researchers. Some speculate that the ancients created it to counter elder dragons during the 'Great Dragon War', a few others say that its formed from entirely different nebulous forms of elder dragons that either haven't been discovered or are kept hidden from the public eye, many others figure that the Aether has been around ever since the Dragon element has but is rarer simply due to its counter-productive nature. A belief (but not factual explanation) is that the Aether element is the elusive force that fills every region that is far above and outside the terrestrial sphere of the world, while the Dragon element is the enigmatic force that fills the spaces that is deep and between the planets mantle and core. Both elements meeting when the overworld and underworld are aligned every few years. This is debunked but is still referred to a lot on the topic of the Aether.

These are all theories and speculation but overall, the nature of the Aether element is even more of a mystery than the Dragon element is.