Every creature species has an affinity to one or two elements. These elements can be seen in the bestiary listing, in the bestiary page for a specific creature, and on a creature's own page.
The elements:
- Fire - The magical ability to make or control heat or flames
- Water - The magical ability to travel through or control water or ice
- Life - The magical ability to heal, and cause growth, and be attuned to the nature
- Earth - The magical ability to control stone or metal
- Air - The magical ability to control winds, and travel through air like a fluid
- Light - The magical ability to control light and be attuned to illumination, purity, and knowledge – This does not indicate goodness, however
- Void - The magical ability to control voids and be attuned to darkness, temporal or time travel, corruption, and deceit – This does not indicate evil, however
- Neutral - No specific ability – The creature can have no magic at all or a magic ability that is not elemental based. Being animated by an element does not make it affiliated to that element.
In addition to the creatures, every magi can attune to an element by completing the quest "New Era: At the Source" and after that the quest "Attune to an Element". Both can be found in the World Map's Keep. It's possible to change which element you're attuned to, or remove the attunement altogether every 30 days. You cannot attune to Neutral. Your element can be seen under your username on topic posts as well as on your profile.
Being attuned to an element currently has the following benefits:
- Creatures whose element matches your element grow faster when you click on them
- Creatures whose element matches your element give you more gold when you click on them
- You can use the Fine Tuning Glass on up to 15% stage creatures whose element matches yours
The elements will play a part in future shenanigans as well, and we already have more stuff planned for them, so there is more to come (not in the very near future, but nonetheless!)!
If you have questions about why a certain creature is affiliated with a certain element, or you notice a creature that may be wrongly affiliated, let us know in this thread and we'll take a look!
I took a quick look at the Bestiary and the elemental affinities seem to be distributed in a pretty balanced way. Can't wait to see how the benefits work 
