TLoS Elemental Class Electricity

Electricity; wild, erratic, unpredictable... the fierce collision of dynamism and eloquence embodied. Of all the breath weapons used in TLoS, electricity presented perhaps the greatest challenge to game-play because of it's far reaching implications. By it's very nature electricity flows from one conductive material to the next, and by that reasoning entire groups of enemy types could have been electrified simultaneously. We ideally wanted to allow this, making for incredibly long chains of foes all linked by and writhing under the uncanny forces of this spectacular breath weapon, but that would have potentially over-powered this element and completely unbalanced the game-play. Yellow became the colour key identifying all things pertaining to electricity, despite the fact that the earlisest and unused rendition was depicted in blue.

To master this elemental ability class, a dragon would need to be clever and quick witted. In TLoS lore, charged ionic forces displaced at speed are channelled from the air, redirected over muscle, bone, sinew and scale; and thus resisted via arts of wit and will, project forth this phenomenal force of nature, either through exhalation or motion of the body. Nerves of steel and an exquisite sence of timing are essential here, lest a dragon fail to properly redirect and release the potent energies surging through its' body. Sheer speed of thought to regulate this instantaneous process allows a well trained Electricity dragon to channel and produce powerful torrents of electricity. For this reason Electriciy dragons are often possessed of higher cognitive function, with a 'silver tongue' to articulate thought at high speed. Such power though makes them prone to magniloquence, of which Volteer is a true exemplar. As an aside, a deep knowledge of the sky also asists to bolster understanding of this primal elemental power.

It is not beyond reason that an Electricity dragon in full possession of its' wits and intellect could exercise mastery of this element in unexpected ways... The quick thinker could perhaps ionise the extremities of its' body, charging horns, claws, tail and wingtips to create and project a static-electric manifestation. Similarly this charge could be projected onto inanimate objects, provided they could carry a current, thus creating a deadly and cunning trap for unwary foes. Electricity is most definitely the thinking dragon's' weapon of choice.