Elements

Information
Magic doesn't exist here, no, it's literal odd chemistry here. A variety of species, including the Wendigoa, use these elements, even most subspecies of Wendigoa have a certain element. Elementshifters are also a example, as they can handle multiple elements, unlike other creatures that can only handle one to three elements at a time.

The elements come from glands, produced into either flammables, liquids (including water), or even solid objects that are explosively propelled, and more. Dark would be considered a fire-based or ice-based element, and this can be a thing for other elements too. Elemedium is another example, as it can be solid, liquid, or even a gas.

Effectiveness
Every element has a increase in damage or otherwise, but again even if one is a water element, they can get burns though they resist fire. Here, we will explain different values. If you are not familiar with defense and offense somehow, here; Defending is when you take the hit, offense is when you attack. It is that simple.

Increased Damage
Increased damage is from the fact the "defending" creature is somewhat less resistant to the other. It is often exploitation of weaknesses element-wise, some elements are resistant to the damage they take from the one who is weak to them, like "opposites". The true form of opposites are more of both are somewhat weak to each other, like fire can melt ice (fire offense), but when ice melts it makes water (ice offense), which can put out fire (sudden change to water offense). Other than that, sometimes- if not most times, in battle one would try to find a weakness, physically or with elements, to win the fight.

Sharp increases of damage are done when one has a understandable major weakness to another element, which can be hard to come across, so we will use the example of Water and Lightning. Water (defense) has a major weakness to Lightning (offense), so if a Lightning element were to use said element, they can easily bring the water element to it's knees. However, Water elements can still damage the Lightning element with their attacks, but they would only leave a scratch if they even try a bit.

Normal Effectiveness
Normal is just using a element that doesn't have increased or decreased damage against another element. Status effects, such as dizzy from water blasts and electrified, may impact a battle because of lowered resistance towards something if possible. There is no exact element relationships happening here, so let's move on to resistances.

Increased Resistance
Increased resistance is from taking less damage from the creature using offense-based attacks. Often times, it's like Earth and Fire, where one can throw soil can smother the fire to put it out, but sometimes it doesn't completely do so. Another example is Water and Fire, water can put out fire, and it can be a complex relationship compared to the simple "Earth and Fire" relationship. There is a lot of examples if one pays attention enough to nature.

Sharply increased resistance is another hard-to-come-by thing, where the defending creature takes little to nothing in damage from the other creature's attacks. A well-known example is Lightning and Earth, lightning spreads out instead of going into the earth (...if I remember right). There is other examples, but they won't be listed here for now. Resistance is key if fighting something dangerous.

Other
There is three other things about elements; Weak, Normal, or Enhanced elements, which we will run through now.

Weak Elements
Weak elements are something minor, it can be hard to get a weak element to Normal unless one with the element is bred with another that has a normal element for the offspring to just have a normal element. It is often hard to detect or find weak elements (though they can be common through those with mixed lineages) and takes effort, even through genetics. Weak elements barely show at all, and are sometimes weak just because they aren't supposed to be in a certain species or subspecies (example, weak nature element in a fire element Wendigoa).

Normal Elements
They are completely normal, and not much change.

Enhanced Elements
Enhanced elements are from the result of laboratory experimentation, and can only be done with one specific element. No matter what it is, the enhanced element will have some sort of effect, such as fire will have a "scorching skin" effect, where if one touches it's skin, the one who touched it would get a burn. Other effects might be acidic glands under or in the scales, and others like that. Enhanced elements can also do more damage, so it is recommended to stay away from them.

Trivia/Notes

 * Molten Elemedium used to be a element, but it was removed because there was already Elemedium as a element- plus, it was just a melted version of Elemedium.
 * Gemstone was made just to replace Molten Elemedium.