Apprentice healers. Or maybe they just jot quick notes and hand them to a friend of theirs who writes out the letters(taking a cut for himself obviously, thus sending the cost up just a /little/ bit).

Oh come now. Sushi was rudimentary at SOME point in history.

Well... Strictly speaking, the branches players get are 'straight' large branches. Ones which are usable. Clearly there will be other large branches, they're just not usable for some reason. And obviously, the chance of a branch becoming unusable will increase as it gets older and bigger. Hence ...

We can't make ice(sadface) so Ice Mirrors are out... though I wonder if there could be some sort of Harden Pattern for master levels or something for water and earth? And perhaps something similar for Air and Fire but making them more volatile?

There was a plague which more or less wiped out most old civilisations. There's a big quarantine wall around the area we play in and it's been implied that there's BAD things out there. Said plague was Resen.

That said, do give it a go. How that would effect the local pure elemental samples interests me.

Well yes. And then the Gaea would scream so freaking loud every druid in the WORLD would come hunt him down. And if they find out he's undying they'd probably lock him in a small room and leave him there... FOREVER.

It'd also be expensive... It's a luxury. And the Lost Lands are(supposed to be) more or less post-apocalyptic so I don't think there's that much to go around...

Tapping into the planetary consciousness? Accessing the shared life-force of every living being? It's Enigmatic but I think it's something like that...

Well... Kindling is basically a handful of small twigs etc so a small branch breaking down into 1 kindling does make sense.

Not currently, no.

Lore wise, discovering Thaumaturgy by oneself is... Well, stupidly rare. So rare that there is... 1? recorded case we can be certain of?

Also, that would hamper the church far too much. The church is on the look out for good, rather than gifted individuals. If they only took people who were so ...

Somewhat.

Depends... What was it like the last time you were around?

I can unfortunately answer only one of your questions.

Thaumaturgy. Thaumaturgy is a discipline and while the Church surely wants to help everyone, they most likely guard the secrets of thaumaturgy closely. It can be used to harm people, albeit at the cost of dimming ones inner light and such and ...

... Not how elemancy works. You'd have to follow them around for a week for it to affect them for a week.

Re: Conflagration

Not gonna happen, we already have something like that, only it damages the caster too and requires multi-elemental weaving and I believe it's Pyro-Geo-Aero.

cast fireworks [colour] [shape]

E.g Dragons, snakes, bears, letters...

It came up a month or two ago if I remember correctly.

Like... fifty. I'm sure they split the to-do lists by guru, urgency etc. And then lists for where to go for which code etc etc.

Then what the heck are you fighting for? You should be sneaking around OR bringing someone to take hits for you while you hide behind them and lightly roast the enemy. As I've said before, elemancer task in what is considered a dangerous area should carry an additional warning(read encouragement ...

One possible solution for the entire church thing could be some form of acolyte system where the aspiring member goes through basic first aid training and whatever else is required. They don't get access to Thaumaturgy but do get access to First Aid training and they would be expected to live by the ...

Well then, it could be optional? Option(whatever number) on=text based, off=number based.

This... Actually sounds awesome. Although note, so far 4 element spells haven't exactly excited Rias. Also, I note in one of your suggestions that you have a blunt weapon getting heavier. It was suggested at one point that there be a way to use aeromancy to make a weapon faster but Rias was against ...

Well. Colds in cold rain aren't an issue. Your body temperature dropping on the other hand is... Well. It only takes a change of two degrees either way to seriously jeopardize your health. And water can absorb ridiculous amounts of heat energy, cold water even more so and that can quickly kill you ...