Elements

[Vad]

MY question is when you take Elemental Ki: Water or Earth, can you spontaneously generate water and/or earth? If NOT, what differs them from telekinesis? You can obviously conjure up wind, but really, you could get away with calling that telekinesis too (if a very specific form of it).

If what holds true for my metal binding, holds true here then you would need a custom tech to be able to generate your element out of your body. I needed a custom tech to generate metal from Vad's body. Not saying it isn't logical to make mine a custom. I'm just offering some answers for the bold text.

If the logic is the same. You would only be able to manipulate water/earth/lightning etc. Until you purchased the custom tech, you wouldn't be able to "generate" it.

But then when talking about Earth, generating it does not hold ground for me. It seems a little illogical for that to be the case. Maybe this whole logic path I'm talking about is wrong for these abilities. We'll see.

One could also argue that by controlling Earth you could control metal. Iron is on the periodic table of elements and Iron Ore occurs naturally in the crust. Thus one could say, "I control all metal that has trace amounts of Iron Ore in it." Rendering Metal Binding useless.

Unless your willing to restrict Earth binding's creativeness, my opinion would be not to use it.

As to Gozen's statement about Lightning and Fire: I have a question.

Isn't heat/friction the rapid movement of the atoms in an object? General statement being, when something is cold the atoms are moving slowly. When that same object is hot or warm, the atoms are moving faster than they were.

Thus couldn't you charge electrons with your fire to shoot lightning?

IE: Avatar the last air bender. Prince Zuko could shoot lightning. They did a whole episode about how lightning benders were legendary.