Quote Originally Posted by Anonymoose View Post
Okay, but doesn't that imply Water, Earth, and Ice are somehow more energetic than Wind, Fire, and Lightning? That sounds weird.
I don't actually know how you arrived there from your own deductions. Granted, I tend to focus on the broad strokes as a side effect of processing cutscenes in two languages at once, but what I got from Urianger was simply that "Light" on the First is stasis and rest (so, water, earth, ice); while "Dark" is energetic chaos (fire, wind, lightning) and under no circumstances to be confused with entropic chaos (i.e., the "umbral"), which loops back around to stasis.

That scene made me think back to the debates of yesteryear, and how hard it was to reconcile the Flood of Light within various different framings of Light and Darkness, but ultimately the answer appears to be that Light and Dark are matters of perspective even on the most fundamental, elemental level. Not to start any flame wars, but I'm beginning to wonder if the actual aspects of Zodiark and Hydaelyn might lie in a more Soul Sacrifice direction...