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An Apprentice of the Air Element will be required to learn this history and take the First Grade Test in order to become a 'Study Maker,' the Journeyman rank.
Air Element
History of the Air Element, its Sages and Schools.
The Air Element has proven to be a difficult and dangerous element to study. In the beginning, Sage Sheerrun Taph believed that air was the source of all life. He examined the methods in which air would enter in and out of the body and believed it to be an ambivalent element. He noted that the air that entered in the nostrils was not the same as the air that exited, the difference being a change in temperature. By this he created the first tenant of the study of the Air Element: Air that enters is not the Air that exits. His pupil and greatest successor, Sage Bundula, developed the Theory of Circulation. She took Sage Sheerrun’s tenant and further noticed that the air that enters, exits some time later.
Other early Air Elementalis took the study in different directions, most agreeing with the early thought that air was the source of all life. Sage Woismusth attempted unsuccessfully to revive his dead cat by using a large fan and a pump. His attempt was taken to be the first in the practice of Air Revivification, a school of thought which would later become popular in the Kazakh Peninsula.
One other Air Elementalis began to think that the Air Element could be used to allow the user to fly, and after a series of unsuccessful attempts, fell to his death from the roof of his tower. Following his studies, Sage Dedalorr began to mix the idea of transportation using air and alchemy and created the first Levitation Elixir. He was praised for his discovery by the Elementalis Society, but was feared terribly by the peasants. After a dramatic confrontation, the peasants lynch mobbed him and burned him at the stake. His findings were lost in a great fire.
After the legitimization of Elementalis, two cooperating schools of learning were developed to study the Air Element. Sage Elima and Sage Jorinda created the School of Great Heights to further study the Theory of Transportation By Means of the Air Element, and Sage Zisander created the School of Esoteric Respiration to further develop the Theory of Air Revivification.
