Elemental Divide

The Elemental Divide (also known as the Elemental Guardians) are one of many groups of important characters in the Spiritverse. What's unique about this group, is that unlike all the other Spiritverse groups, they only exist within a specific story, being Small Spark.

Common appearance details
All of the Elemental Divide are almost human in appearance, although their colour palettes, in addition to their skin colour, are limited to two or three colours depending on which element they're assigned with. Outfits vary, but follow along with the colour palette rules. All of their faces are obscured by a circular mask with varied but simple patters, with one or two eyes being the only facial features being visible through them.

As they're all leaders of various factions, they share the same name with the factions they lead.

History (Development-wise)
During the early development of the Spiritverse in around 2019, this was a concept of a story Al had conceptualized. First starting off as joking that a three-colour green palette was a "Forest Deutschland," this joke then lead to a story concept where the Panstvo-hjomim get subjected and overcome by elemental power. It was only then in 2022 when this story idea was fully realized, and thus was this group.

History (Lore-wise)
As young as the group seems, the very individuals that compromise this are not newborn, rather were repurposed versions of an already existing group, the Panstvo-hjomim.

There was at one point Time had noticed an anomaly in the branches of timelines, something in the universe that keeps generating an abnormal amount of timelines than there should be. Of everyone, the Principals of Principles are the ones to care about the matter, and it turns out the centerpiece of these anomalies was Gaia's planet, Earth. The five had sought to observe Earth from afar as to see why these anomalies were occurring. The cause of this was apparently of a new group not doing the duty they were made to do. They were once called the Earth Guardians, now the Earth Dwellers, given up on their job as guardians of varied factions. Why did they give up? Because the very people they were assigned to protect never believed in them. Such disbelief caused their demotivation, and thus was the cause of the anomalies. Pitying the young group, and never questioning where they came from or Gaia's disappearance, the Principals had made a secret landing on Earth, as to not alert the other Celestial Guardians, and had a long-term plan to right what is wrong, hoping if they motivate the Earth Dwellers into being Guardians again, everything will be fine in the end.

They had set up a grand college in the capital of a small country named Mitka, calling it the Grapevine College of Arts. While it aims to teach young humans about their world and how to handle things such as magic, in reality it was supposed to be a trap set to gather these Earth Dwellers, and when the time is right and when they think they got most of them, will convince them of their goal.

Ten years have passed, and the plan has gone into fruition. With the Dwellers in their hands, the next step was to get a hold of their respective lands and convince the people about the leaders they were meant to have, and thus establishing a new order. In this new order, such things like names and national colours have changed, especially with the Principals' influence of introducing magic to the world, but things like culture and language remained untouched.

The Principals had thought their mission to have succeeded, and thus the anomaly had disappeared. What was supposed to be a liberation of one thing turned to be a fixing of everything. And for once in their lives, the Earth Guardians were satisfied with their jobs, now that there are people willing to listen to them this time. In addition to this, some members of another group associated with them, the House of Speakers, have joined in as well.

Major Faction Leaders

 * Cosmos (any/all pronouns) - Also known as Kosmos, is the leader of the Aether faction of the same name. Is considered one of the higher rulers of Earth because of their element, but also because the Principal of Aether took pity on them and Darkness back then and thought to give them these higher roles. Formerly known as Jagoda Polanski, personification of Poland.
 * Darkness (she/her) - Also known as Kadiliman, is the leader of the Aether faction of the same name. Together with Kosmos with their new higher roles, they strive to keep this new world peaceful, as it should be. Formerly known as Juana Maria dela Cruz, personification of the Philippines.

Minor Faction Leaders

 * Mossyrock (he/him) - Is the leader of the Earth faction of the same name. Interestingly, his faction is where The Camp in Small Spark is located. In story, he would often watch over The Camp, and even raise them to be functional members of this new society. He's well aware one of them is Darkness' child, but never had the heart to tell her about it.  Formerly known as Damien Ferguson, personification of Australia.


 * Stormcloud (she/her) - Is the leader of the Aether/Wind faction of the same name. Despite her Aether allegiance, she isn't much of a higher leader, and is one of the more violent ones in terms of keeping the order as it is. Formerly known as Lizbeth Spangler, personification of the United States of America.
 * Luminance (he/him, they/them) - Is the leader of the Aether faction of the same name. Also not too high despite his element, is not only set on keeping the order as it is, but also set on erasing whatever happened before the divide. Basically he believes in restarting history with also wiping what was once there before.  Formerly known as Harry Harland, personification of the United Kingdom.
 * Flame (he/him) - Is the leader of the Fire faction of the same name.  Formerly known as Zhang Chen, personification of China.
 * Rosebloom (he/him) - Also known as Floraison, is the leader of the Earth faction of the same name. Unlike the other Earth-aligned factions, his does not have a green palette, given a more pink one to resemble the flowers he blooms.  Formerly known as Francis Jean Sauveterre, personification of France.
 * Obsidian (he/him) - Is the leader of the Aether/Earth faction of the same name. Also not too high despite his element, but is neutral towards the new order implemented unlike any other Aether-aligned factions.  Formerly known as Ignatiy Zima, personification of Russia.
 * Ivyblade (he/him, they/them) - Also known as Efeublatt, is the leader of the Earth faction of the same name.  Formerly known as Hänsel Ziegler, personification of Germany.
 * Seafoam (she/her) - Is the leader of the Water faction of the same name. Formerly known as Sakura Yoshida, personification of Japan.
 * Bloodvine (he/him) - Is the leader of the Blood faction of the same name. His element was a split from water, but an accidental creation. Has mixed feelings towards the new order, considering at first it did not treat him well.  Formerly known as Luciano Capello, personification of Italy.
 * Whirlwind (he/him) - Is the leader of the Wind faction of the same name.  Formerly known as Keith Hargrave, personification of Canada.
 * Seagrass (he/him) - Is the leader of the Earth/Water faction of the same name.  Formerly known as Sviatoslav Holub, personification of Ukraine.


 * Ember (he/him) - Is the leader of the Fire faction of the same name. Formerly known as Carlos Hidalgo, personification of Spain.
 * Magma (he/him) - Is the leader of the Fire faction of the same name. Formerly known as Yusuf Fauzi, personification of Indonesia.
 * Seabreeze (he/him) - Is the leader of the Wind/Water faction of the same name. Formerly known as Imran Bakar, personification of Malaysia.
 * Grapevine (he/him) - Is the leader of the Earth/Water faction of the same name. Formerly known as Miltiades Floros, personification of Greece.
 * Codeline (he/him) - Is the leader of the Technology faction of the same name. He's a unique one, and a first of his kind. In a way, he may be the Principal of his faction's element. Formerly known as Onni Saari, personification of Finland.
 * Geode (any/all pronouns) - Is the leader of the Earth faction of the same name. Formerly known as Vik Oxenstierna, personification of Sweden.
 * Diamond (he/him) - Is the leader of the Earth faction of the same name. Formerly known as Rubem Crespo, personification of Brazil.
 * Raspberry (he/him) - Is the leader of the Food faction of the same name. An element split from Earth, he and Mintchip are the first ones to represent this. Formerly known as Lambert Aarden, personification of the Netherlands.
 * Mintchip (he/him, they/them) - Is the leader of the Food faction of the same name. Formerly known as Olaf Borde, personification of Belguim.

Other Elemental-Aligned Figures

 * Brili - An assistant aligned with the Aether-elemented Kosmos faction. Also known as Espen, the Speaker of Hope and personification of Esperanto.
 * Telo - A wanderer aligned with no faction, but is Water elemented. Also known as Toki, the Speaker of Good and personification of Toki Pona.
 * Miel - A wanderer aligned with no faction, but is Earth/Food elemented. Also known as Volker, the Speaker of Unity and personification of Volapük.

Trivia

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