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)

pronounced [green notecards; color swatch drawn as green box containing number "Aleph" (countable infinity, 'all')] Analog bloc
- includes ideology codes:
  - pronounced meta- onto pronounced Fantasy
  - pronounced G.R. — pronounced Time bloc — [icon of two arrows passing by each other, to illustrate reference frame drag force]
  - pronounced M.X. — pronounced Quantum bloc — [icon of black hole lensing]
pronounced [red notecards; "Fourth"] Fire bloc
- includes ideology codes:
  - pronounced M-N — Solar bloc — [icon of a bright sun with a simple four-pointed corona around it]
  - pronounced Fourth — pronounced Flare bloc — [icon of rightward blazing flame]
  - pronounced Ziv — pronounced Lightning bloc
  - pronounced M.T. — Monsoon bloc
  - pronounced E-S — Caldera bloc
pronounced [magenta notecards; "Third"] Earth bloc
- includes ideology codes:
  - pronounced M-S — pronounced Summit bloc — [icon of mountain peak]
  - pronounced M.Z. — ~~Sand~~ / Coast bloc
  - 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]
  - pronounced D.X. — Tide bloc
  - pronounced Juche — ~~Lagoon~~ / Island bloc
  - pronounced West-G — Glacier bloc — [icon of mountain with snowy top. this icon didn't emphasize the "glacier" enough]
  - pronounced M.B. — Desert bloc — [icon of desert plateau with bright tan bands]
  - pronounced B.P. — Fynbos bloc — [icon of fynbos flower seen in South African "wet scrub" biome found a bit away from southern shore]
pronounced [blue notecards; "Second"] Sky bloc
- includes ideology codes:
  - pronounced Second — Cloud bloc
  - 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.)
  - pronounced R-L — Torrent bloc
  - 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.)
  - pronounced A.A. — Abyss bloc — [icon of a deep-sea sponge with a current going around or through it]
  - 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)
pronounced [blue notecards; "First"] ~~Void~~ / Aether bloc
- includes ideology codes:
  - pronounced A — Starlight bloc
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:
  - pronounced L-R — Olympus bloc — [dark icon of unfurling wing]
  - pronounced P4 — ~~Panthera~~ / ~~Lamia~~ / Alecto bloc — [dark icon of two fangs closed into bulky jaw, supposed to be a lion jaw]
  - pronounced P.T. — ~~Serpens~~ / Typhon bloc — [dark icon of alert snake forming looped "S" shape]
  - pronounced A.S. — ~~Plutonian~~ / Hades bloc — [dark icon of hazard symbol, abstraction meant to suggest radioactive elements] [1]