Sephirot's Ein Sof: what are we getting hit with?

its looks like sephi has a lot of raw force and magic atttacks, but this particular move baffles me.

Its the expanding green circle with leaves floating in it. you touch it, and it hurts, gives vuln. up, and bubble suds pop out of you.

What sort of aetherial bubblebath are we getting hit with here, and how does it work?(Note: this is not about game mechanics, I understand how it works in game, but not what it supposed to represent, or how it affects us if we touch it.)

Pure guessing, but perhaps he's making a vacuum bubble, so entering means you can't breath and it starts ripping your body apart/making your blood boil and other nasty things that happen in such situation?
He has control over wind, right? So shaping it in such a way that it significantly reduces the air pressure in the bubble can result in that effect..

Boogers. Deadly boogers.

Water aspected I imagine. Sephirot seems aligned with a elements and themes of conjurers.

In dragonspeak, Ein means "hand" if I remember correctly. I'm assuming Sof translated would shed light on what it represents. Out eating right now so don't have the dictionary in front of me. Maybe someone else can reference it.

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Originally Posted by Velox

In dragonspeak, Ein means "hand" if I remember correctly. I'm assuming Sof translated would shed light on what it represents. Out eating right now so don't have the dictionary in front of me. Maybe someone else can reference it.

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Sephirot is, bar Meracydia association, unrelated with Dragons. PArcher's link will explain the True entomology of Ein Soph and the rest of Sephirot's attacks

In fantasy, just about any concept can be applied to a force or energy. For example, you have things like "rays of cold", which logically doesn't make any sense because cold is pretty much defined as an absence of energy, not a type of energy. If you wanted to be silly, it's entirely reasonable in a fantasy setting to have things like "peanut butter force" or "housecat beams" that would strike you with the essence of peanut butter or housecats FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE.

So, if we accept that we're working in a fantasy world here, and just about anything can be an "energy", all that really remains is to decide what kind of energy Sephirot uses. Sephirot seemed to thematically represent plants and growth. Additionally, going by the Wu Xing system of elements, Wood is one of the basic elements, so that seems a likely choice. For Ein Sof, and likely many of Sephirot's other attacks, you're being damaged by Wood energy.

Another possibility that I like is that Sephirot uses Life energy in his attacks. Growth is a feature of pretty nearly all things that are classified as being alive.

So, that would be my guess for Ein Sof: Wood or Life energy.

Metal is another of the Wu Xign elements. I think it'd be awesome to see the Demon turn out to be a Metal element primal! What could be more metal than a demon, after all???

(Fun fact: Lightning is considered to be related to the Wood element, due to the fact that Lightning is often seen "escaping" trees during a thunderstorm.)