SEAL OF EVIL

Appendix I The Game Map
Appendix II The Concept of the Five Elements
The concept of the Five Elements is an ancient and enduring one in
Chinese culture. It permeates all aspects of life, from daily living to
spirituality to science. They are not true elements per se in the Western
sense or tradition, but rather five states of the singular spiritual and
material force known as qi. These states are given rather ordinary
names: Metal, Wood, Earth, Water, and Fire. They are the most
fundamental and ubiquitous components of existence, and their
movement, their waxing, and their waning influences everything in the
world.
The Five Elements have the following worldly correspondences, to
name a few:
· Metal: white, Autumn, dry weather, West, lungs and large
intestine, sorrow, pungent, spherical, Tiger and Venus
· Wood: green, Spring, windy weather, East, liver and
gallbladder, anger, sour, rod-like, Dragon and Jupiter
· Earth: yellow, late Summer, humid weather, Center, spleen
and stomach, calm, sweet, cubic, Phoenix and Saturn
· Water: black, Winter, cold, North, kidney and bladder, fear,
salty, waveform, Tortoise, and Mercury
· Fire: red, Summer, hot, South, heart and small intestine, joy,
bitter, triangular, Pheasant, and Mars
They do not exist in isolation of one another. Rather, they are a
continuum. One fades into another, one influences the next, one
transforms the subsequent. The Five Elements exist in a continual state
of flux. They are always in motion, always influenced by changes in
the physical and spiritual environment.
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