Two notes:
- For all stunts here, the Elemental Advantage bonus counts as a buff.
- For every additional Element you have, the requirements to acquire one of these stunts drops by 5 levels.
- E.g. with 4 Elements, the requirements would drop by 15 levels, so you could learn Elemental Master with 3x level 45 skills in a given Element.
Okay, how hard can it be to invent our own elements? Let's start with Antimatter Element.
I have also had this idea, though not with that specific example!
The end goal of this line of questioning is wondering whether there are actually a fixed number of elements at all. There are a lot of elements on the Seventh Path, and some of them overlap (e.g. Sun Element and Star Element). I think it's worth at least considering the hypothesis that it's actually possible to create new elements with Technique Hacking or some evolution thereof. It's unlikely, because if it was possible we'd expect people to be doing it, but Primordial Sealing provides precedent for incredibly powerful lost arts, and the elements having been created artificially would explain Oro's mystery of why chakra "expresses itself in these particular, discrete forms".
This is probably an incredibly long-term thing that we'll never get to in the timeline of the quest. However, if and when we unlock Minatosealing and level it a bit, it might be worth investigating whether we can use it to cheat our way into new elements without actually learning them properly. If we can, it might conceivably be possible to use a Minatoseal to generate the supposedly-necessary "seed" for an exotic element and then use that as a basis to learn the element. It's pretty unlikely, but I think it's worth keeping in mind.
Also, a thought that I've had for a while, which would be highly amusing if it were true: what if there's actually no such thing as bloodline elements, or special nature chakra elements, or anything like that? What if every single Element is actually learnable by every ninja, and it's just that no one's ever tried?
Like, this sounds ridiculous. But from what we know of learning an Element, there isn't really any way to check your progress; one day, you just go from not being able to do it to being able to do it. So presumably,
trying and
failing to learn a nonstandard Element would still mean spending the 1000XP, just without any reward at the end. And there aren't
that many ninja in the world, and even fewer who'd have enough access to a nonstandard element teacher to even try. If you believed you couldn't do it, would you really throw away 1000 XP just on the off chance everything you'd ever been told was wrong?
And suppose you
did. Suppose you did this completely crazy thing, and it
worked, and you got a nonstandard Element out of it. Would you ever tell anyone that? Would the clan you learned it from ever let the secret get out that their Element wasn't actually tied to their bloodline?
It doesn't seem all that likely. But despite how weird the idea sounds, I don't think we can definitively rule it out.
