(Indeed, quintessence quite literally means "the fifth element".)
In some alchemical texts, there are salt, sulphur, mercury, and quintessence, with salt representing the physical, sulphur representing the spirit of life, mercury representing volatility or fluidity and the "passive principle", quintessence was supposed to be the constituent matter of the heavenly bodies, and also sometimes was included with the more common 4 elements. The classical Japanese elements are Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void. In classical Chinese mythology, it's typically Fire, Water, Earth, Wood (which includes control over plants as well as the wind), and Metal. In Greek (and by extension most European), Hindu, and Buddhist mythology, it's usually Fire, Air, Water, and Earth-with Aether (which can be "souls", "heart", "spirits", or Pure Energy) occasionally mixed in. Just what the "classical elements" are varies from culture to culture. May involve the capability to summon Elementals, the living embodiment of the elements themselves. It also makes for easy Super-Hero Speciation. A character with elemental power in animation will often have the fitting eye color. These "elements" are probably the source of the association of colors with personality traits. This usually goes hand in hand with Personality Powers-you're not likely to find a calm and collected guy who can shoot fire, for instance. The most common use is to give characters some superpower over an aspect of nature-like a character who can conjure or control fire or water, given the right conditions. Alternately, fire corresponds to energy, particularly the heat energy that moves matter from one state to another). The discovery of the atom mostly disproved that, but the idea was so deeply rooted in mankind's mind, that it's still used in nearly every supernatural fictional setting (note that the classical elements actually correspond to a different scientific concept: the phases of matter, provided you count plasma as a fourth phase & not just as a subset of gas. Thus, all of the world was made up of natural forces such as "earth, air, fire, water" et al. In the past, it was thought that all of matter could be classified into easily viewable "elements" that one can observe with the naked eye. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup.
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