Since everyone has different oppinions, why don't we have three Guild types; Major Guilds, Medium Guilds and Lesser Guilds?
Major Guilds:
1) Material Guild ( )
"The Elementals following this Guild have an opinion about the world similar to Empedocles' one. They believe that the core elements of the universe are Air ( ), Earth ( ), Fire ( ) and Water ( ); the rest elements are just variations and mixtures of these."
2) Spiritual Guild ( )
"These Elementals admire spirit above body, since they believe that matter can't really move or act without a spirit to command it. They are usually very religious and they either worship the Light Gods ( ) and Mother Nature ( ) or the Dark Gods ( ) and Thanatos himself ( )."
3) Cosmic Guild ( )
"The most scientific of the Elementals belong in this Guild. They are the least religious of the Guilds, since they either believe in scientific progress instead of a god ( , ) or view themselves as gods, like Immortals or Pharaohs often do ( , )."
4) Outlanders Guild {optional} ( )
"No one knows from where these Elementals came and no one really cares. The thing which really intrigues the other 3 Major Guilds is not the origins of these Elementals, but their point of view; these Elementals think that all the twelve elements are equal and just a tool to do your job. In other words, they don't admire any of the elements, but they use every one of them at their advantage..."
Medium Guilds:
"These Guilds worship one element as the only true element above all the others."
01) Aether Guild
02) Air Guild
03) Darkness Guild
04) Death Guild
05) Earth Guild
06) Entropy Guild
07) Fire Guild
08) Gravity Guild
09) Life Guild
10) Light Guild
11) Time Guild
12) Water Guild
Lesser Guilds:
"These Guilds worship a duo (or even a trio) of elements."
Examples: , , , , etc.
What if, we sorta used a multi-guild system?
Like, the three Majors are the main guilds, and you MUST fall under one of the three, based on elemental preferance.
Then, under them, you have the medium 'devoted' tier, which you go to your favorite element for. (Could be used to determine mark in Guild PvP!)
And finally, you have your lesser(minor) 'duo' set, which could indicate the element you like pairing with your 'Medium' tier element/allow alliances with others who have that other element as a 'Medium' tier.
In short:
Major: Determined by Medium, influence is currently undecided.
Medium: Favorite element, determines Major Guild, may control mark/ grant bonus to using that element.
Minor: Shows Alliance to another element, may allow a smaller bonus to that element.
That's my take on it. Each one adds another level to your Identity as an Elemental, and will, given enough time, match your playstyle perferance, at least in 'guild' games.
Ex: For myself, I'd place myself as thus:
Cosmic Gravity (half-blood name for
), Zaealix.