Quote Originally Posted by Eloah View Post
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My mention of the astral and umbral poles being active and passive comes from the lore book: "In addition to the six elements, there also exist two poles - astral and umbral - which greatly influence the nature of the elements - an astral charge bringing more activity, while and umbral charge resulting in more passiveness. For example, when in an astral state, fire exhibits high volatility, whereas its umbral state is characterized by dryness." (page 9 I think, I've still yet to get the lore book myself {darn you delivery prices}, so I've only seen a picture of said page)

As for Ravana and Bismarck, they are heavily implied to be dual-elemented by the tooltips of the items used to unlock their extreme modes. Bismarck's (Weeping Eye of the Manukmanai) saying it is "heavily aspected to both water and wind", and Ravana's (Burning Eye of Ravana) states it is "heavily aspected to both earth and fire". Now, this is of course no concrete proof that they are indeed specifically just these two elements, but I don't see why they would put these notes in otherwise.

Other than that, that's a really nice reply! I'll need to go back and look at the Phoenix fight again...