What would a magic system based on the Wu Xing look like?

>>51367700
Like Perfect World.

Legends of the Wulin? Priests Arts primarily, but all Secret Arts that game are about the fivefold wheel and the relationships present within it.

>>51367700
>why have four when you could have 5.png
That's misleading. They aren't elements, they're phases/transformations.

A single object cycles through them over time.
Mostly when it undergoes some change of state (rotting, ageing, tempering, getting cut down, whatever else).

What I'm getting at here is, if something changes... it's not made out of different material of another element.
It's made of the same material it used to be, but that material is now in a different phase.

>>51372228
That makes a lot more sense than wood being strong against fire

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>>51373294

The arrows aren't actually 'strong against', they describe two different kinds of relationship. Pic related.

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>>51367700
This has been done by Legends of the Wulin already.

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>>51373338
>metal generates water

>>51373294
The element that points the arrow "begets" the element it points to.

>>51373382
Condensation, probably made sense to the Chinese ages ago

>>51373382
Condensation. Also, one of the signs of metal poisoning is heavy sweating.