Great. Well I'm rewriting my novel, and while I'm at it I decided to revamp the whole concept of Gifts and how they work. I was hoping you'd be able to help me flesh out some details and even out some inconsistencies, if it wasn't too much to ask ^^'
Gifts, as far as I can explain, are the ability to control one aspect of nature and bend it to your will. They function on energy, which is split into two groups---Physical and Life. Physical being normal stamina and Life being life force, I guess. Anyway, a Gift will use the bearer's Physical energy until it exhausts, at which point it starts to use Life. The bearer then gets three uses before the energy exhaustion is fatal. Different Gifts use different amounts of energy. As such, there are major groups. To begin with, I'll list the Elementals, which are the only Gifts that actually have the chance to evolve if used enough.
Fire---->Lightning
Water---->Ice
Earth---->Metal
Wind---> ?
Wow, that was a wall of text >.<