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Octahedric Hyperprism Hypothesis

See also Elemental Classification System

Many fans have noted that, while Blood and Unlight may be corporally similar to their corresponding primary elements (as described by experienced Dark Elemenstors, see Dark Elemenstation), the functionality of the Dark Elemenstation is full perversion of part of elemenstation. The Blood elemenstation, given it's powers of body and mind control, power over the undead (which is a twisting of both Life and Death elemenstation) and the infurnal (a perversion of both Carry and Stream elemenstation), it is sometimes seen as the dementing of the four secondary forms into a single field of madness. Similarly, Unlight twists the primary four elemenstations into shadow where they erode away. As such, fans have developed the octahedric hyperprism theory of the Dark Elemenstation, in which the primary and secondary forms of elemenstation form two octahedric hyperfaces that exist at the external base hyperplanes of a four-dimensional prism. The four primary elemenstation forms are thus four of the corner points of the octahedric hyperplane at one end, and the four secondary elemenstation forms are thus four of the corner points of the octahedric hyperplane at the other end of the prism.

Similar to the line topology, this allows for four additional points. Logically, the Blood elemenstation represents a dark corner of the secondary elemenstation octahedral hyperface, and the Unlight elemenstation represents a similar dark corner of the primary elemenstation octahedral hyperface. By this topology, there must exist a light form of primary and secondary elemenstation. For the secondary elemenstations, this is quite obviously Heart, which gives the similar power to glorify and imbue natural forces within the living, dead, inanimate and animated beings. Logically, there must be a similar counter to Unlight. Controversially, some prominent fan theorists have hypothesized that this final force of ultimate creation is The Unspeakable, which they imagine is a force that simply maintains the continued existence of the universe. The apocalyptic destruction and mental instability associated with The Unspeakable is caused by actions that weaken the fabric of this force. They defend the relationship between Heart and The Unspeakable by pointing to the similarly unobtainable, obtuse, mysterious natures of The Unspeakable and Heart, and redefined Dark and Light elemenstation as "Forcing" and "Binding" elementstation.

Such prominent fan theorists are considered lunatics.

This system of classification implies that Heart is actually the fouth dark element. This fact is used simultaneously by those on both sides of the debate. Proponents of the theory take view it as blindingly obvious, once you have seen it, that Heart was the fourth Dark element all along. Those who still have a grip on their sanity, however take this view as proof positive that octahedric hyperprism hypothsians have gone completely bonkers.

An important extrapolation of the hyperprism theory is that each primary elemenstation directly corresponds to a secondary elementstation, just as Blood and Unlight correspond as the Forcing elements. Each is connected to the opposing element by an edge on the hyperprism. In this system, Heart and the hypothetical missing element, possibly The Unspeakable , are the linked Binding Elements. Similarly, Water and Life are the linked Feeding elements, Stream and Air are the linked Driving elements, Carry and Earth are the linked Still elements, and Death and Fire are the linked Destroying elements.

Further extrapolations have attempted to position the various Ur-Elements and Ur-Ur-Elements with the hyperprism, particularly considering the 2 octahedral and 8 prismatic hyperfaces that contain the hyperprism. The problem is that the prismatic hyperfaces have no sensible meaning - the hyperface constructed with the vertices being Fire, Air, Death, Stream, Heart, and The Unspeakable could be just about anything.

The most excepted theory on the Ur-Ur-Elements is that they are not part of the hyperprism, but _the very dimensions_ that define the hyperprisms existence. This theory is well liked because it explains the relationships of the various elements very well.

Under this theory, the primary elements exist at +1 in the Timenes Dimension, and the secondary elements exist in at -1 in the Timenes Dimension. That is to say that the primary elements apear as a plain three-dimensional prism in the +1 plain of the Timenes dimension.

It is believed that the reason the high elemenstors treated the cardinal elements as primary is that they are the elements seen in the facets of the Star Born Crystal when viewed in positive time. It is claimed that the secondary elements apear in the crystal in place of the primary elements if viewed backwards in time.

There is a lot of controversy on this matter, as Yolanda Keyan is said to have done just that: peared through the crystal backwards in time and seen the secondary elements in place of the cardinal elements. Yolanda Keyan was a major character in the Elemenstor Web Comic. While the comic is considered Canonical, supplemental strips created by the comics editor Sweater Man Phil are disputed. It is in one of these disputed strips that Yolanda peers through the crystal backward. See The Web Comic Canonicity Dispute.

Taken from chapter 7 of Bjorn Z. Madsen's seminal 1998 work, "Fictional Grand Unifying Theories". -- Laurie