Elemental Teachings

Frequently Asked Questions

Aspects

• When Dark Fire gains a Moon/Fire for only a single action (e.g., when playing Elemental Invocation), can it treat that Element as the other?
  Yes. That is an Element available to you, even if it's only available for a limited purpose.

  This also applies in the rare case that Dark Fire is gifted Elemental Teachings and spends a prepared Element marker to have a Element for a single action. But it doesn't let Dark Fire use Moon markers as Fire markers or vice versa (either to spend with Elemental Teachings or if Shifting Memory is using the Intensify Aspect).
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Spirits and Innate Powers

• Can Shifting Memory of Ages spend element markers to give other Spirits elements?
  Only by using their Unique Power Elemental Teachings. The normal "gain an Element for 1 action" benefit is for Shifting Memory only.
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• If another Spirit gets hold of Elemental Teachings (from Shifting Memory of Ages), can they Prepare element markers?
  Yes. While Shifting Memory's panel defines what "Prepare" means, other Spirits can do so if they are able to use a Power that instructs them to. They can spend those element markers on Elemental Teachings or for whatever Shifting Memory's special rules say those markers are for (normally getting extra Elements for a single action via Insights Into the World's Nature).

  While a strict reading of the text of Insights Into the World's Nature would have the other Spirit store its prepared markers on Shifting Memory's panel, don't do that. It just wasn't worth convoluting the wording of that paragraph to cover the extreme edge-case. As of the release of Nature Incarnate, "Prepare" is a general game keyword, so the exact text of the first paragraph of Insights Into the World's Nature is just a reminder of how things normally work for Shifting Memory of Ages.

  If an Aspect replaces Insights Into the World's Nature, the function of Element markers also changes for other Spirits. For example, if Shifting Memory is using the Intensify Aspect, Element markers can be spent by other Spirits to increase the effects of one of their Spirit Actions, but can't be spent to gain Elements for a single action.
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• What's the point of using Elemental Teachings (Shifting Memory of Ages) on yourself? Don't you have those Elements available anyway?
  If you spend Element Markers, you get those Elements for the entire turn, not just for a single Action. But yes, the Power is generally more useful targeting other Spirits.
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