Research talk:IBA/1003 elements

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Ironblood-Aurora elements notecard
(this was scrawled on an index card, but the card got fairly messy so it will probably be easier to read typed out)

• [ℵ] (pronounced [green notecards; color swatch drawn as green box containing number "Aleph" (countable infinity, 'all')]) Analog bloc
  • includes ideology codes:
    • MX (pronounced meta-) onto Fy (pronounced Fantasy)
    • GR (pronounced G.R.) — 🔁 Time bloc (pronounced Time bloc) — [icon of two arrows passing by each other, to illustrate reference frame drag force]
    • MX (pronounced M.X.) — 🌌 Quantum bloc (pronounced Quantum bloc) — [icon of black hole lensing]
• [Ⅳ] (pronounced [red notecards; "Fourth"]) Fire bloc
  • includes ideology codes:
    • MN (pronounced M-N) — Solar bloc — [icon of a bright sun with a simple four-pointed corona around it]
    • IV (pronounced Fourth) — 🔥 Flare bloc (pronounced Flare bloc) — [icon of rightward blazing flame]
    • Zv (pronounced Ziv) — ⚡ Lightning bloc (pronounced Lightning bloc)
    • MT (pronounced M.T.) — Monsoon bloc
    • ES (pronounced E-S) — Caldera bloc
• [Ⅲ] (pronounced [magenta notecards; "Third"]) Earth bloc
  • includes ideology codes:
    • MS (pronounced M-S) — ⛰️ Summit bloc (pronounced Summit bloc) — [icon of mountain peak]
    • MZ (pronounced M.Z.) — Sand / Coast bloc
    • ML (pronounced M-L) — Iron / Slate bloc — [icon of stalagmite containing banded iron rock framed by cave. this icon was too complex]
      • shale? (Arosa)
      • slate? [icon of jagged anvil-like slate rock with two tiers]
    • DX (pronounced D.X.) — Tide bloc
    • JC (pronounced Juche) — Lagoon / Island bloc
    • Wg (pronounced West-G) — Glacier bloc — [icon of mountain with snowy top. this icon didn't emphasize the "glacier" enough]
    • MB (pronounced M.B.) — Desert bloc — [icon of desert plateau with bright tan bands]
    • BP (pronounced B.P.) — Fynbos bloc — [icon of fynbos flower seen in South African "wet scrub" biome found a bit away from southern shore]
• [Ⅱ] (pronounced [blue notecards; "Second"]) Sky bloc
  • includes ideology codes:
    • II (pronounced Second) — Cloud bloc
    • LR (pronounced L-R) — Snow bloc
      • (note not on card: I was slightly thinking about the subliminal effect of "snow" being a negative thing in Deltarune.)
    • RL (pronounced R-L) — Torrent bloc
    • Ag (pronounced Ag) — Marsh Rain bloc
      • (I was really trying to make Marsh an element icon for a faction that distorted Marxism but I couldn't make it work.)
    • Aa (pronounced A.A.) — Abyss bloc — [icon of a deep-sea sponge with a current going around or through it]
    • DG (pronounced D-G) — Ocean bloc — [icon of the boundary between the sea and the sky framed by a large wave, with another opposing wave behind. a tad too complicated]
    • "Cyber"
      • (I wanted to make this a bloc again to match Analog bloc but couldn't really think of what ideology code to associate it with)
• [Ⅰ] (pronounced [blue notecards; "First"]) Void / Aether bloc
  • includes ideology codes:
    • A (pronounced A) — Starlight bloc
• [0] (pronounced [yellow notecards; "Zero"]) Poison bloc
  • (there are two proposed icons here)
    • [icon of color swatch containing slashed zero "0" or empty set "∅"]
    • [icon of spear with large angular eagle-like hand clutching it]
  • includes ideology codes:
    • LR (pronounced L-R) — Olympus bloc — [dark icon of unfurling wing]
    • P4 (pronounced P4) — Panthera / Lamia / Alecto bloc — [dark icon of two fangs closed into bulky jaw, supposed to be a lion jaw]
    • PT (pronounced P.T.) — Serpens / Typhon bloc — [dark icon of alert snake forming looped "S" shape]
    • AS (pronounced A.S.) — Plutonian / Hades bloc — [dark icon of hazard symbol, abstraction meant to suggest radioactive elements] [1]