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But I am literally Saturos.

I think hot+wet comes from a very rudimentary "you heat up water and it becomes air/steam" kind of thing, haha.

Wait, did I have an imposter? But anyway, yeah, just someone else using the Saturos name, haha. That's what I get for just using a generic GS name. >.> Sorry if that was confusing, everyone!

Yeah, I mean, they explicitly talk about that in the games. S&M use the Venus beacons light to recover their power, because Venus and Mars are symbiotic elements. Then, in TLA, the world continually gets colder after lighting Jupiter because Jupiter and Mercury are 'cold' elements. Kraden uses the analogy of blowing on something to cool it down to illustrate this.

Empedocles, the one who coined the classical four elements thing, saw them as combinations of the principles of hot/cold and dry/wet, with each one being a combination of two. Of course, they don't break down as they do in GS, but it's a useful frame of reference.
In the philosophy, fire is hot/dry, earth is cold/dry, air is hot/wet, and water is cold/wet.

Meanwhile, ToK just had them because we're fanon trash. B) Specifically, I am. Or at least, my 15-year-old self was.

I do like Role's theory that each element has a "light" side and a "dark" side, and they change aspects based on which it's tilted towards. If you go by the games... Jupiter and Mars seem to have the most light stuff (Mars Djinn, lasers, Phaeton Blade, etc), whereas Venus has the death stuff, Thorny Grave, masses of shadows, etc.
And of course, as you point out, Dark Dawn brings in Umbra (anti-psynergy and shadows) and light. I think the Dark Dawn systems are perfectly reasonable as well. =o

Haha, it might be. It could also be a good reminder. =o
Anyway, sorry for the delay! I had to actually register first, and I don't think I ever got the validation email... but it seems one of the admins approved me anyway, so here I am!

Here for the interforum post-off, since I see my account was activated. =o I can feel the power. Anyways, I'm Saturos at the Temple of Kraden, buuut the name Saturos was taken already here. >.> If there is an active Saturos and you use the Satty nickname already, I can probably change mine to Ravelate instead, which is my other penname.

Let's see, about me... I'm 26, Canadian, studied English lit in university, just got back from teaching in Japan, and am now applying for PhD. @_@ I love Golden Sun, of course, but I also like Touhou, Ar Tonelico, Blazblue, Madoka Magica, Fate, and that kind of stuff as well! Lately I've been getting waaaay too into Granblue Fantasy. >.> I also write a bit, both poetry and kind of a novel. I like to sing, but I'm not very good at it, haha.

Love the Christmas background here! It's very festive.

Looking forward to meeting you all!