Maata

Modern Sci fi/Fantasy Slice of Life

Every living thing has elemental powers.

Maata is a universe created by the four gods of the physical states: Qiyon, Phanox, Kurat, and Ventos, representing plasma, gas, liquid, and solid, respectively. They travelled the infinite expanse, spawning nebulae, planets, and stars in their wake. Eventually, entire galaxies formed from the separate creations of the four gods.

Then, they decided to rest and return to the first star they created. However, the star had collapsed into itself and created a black hole. They were nearly sucked in, and lost almost all of their power.

With only the slightest amount of energy they had remaining, they crafted a planet fit for life to survive. This planet was named Maata, and they cultivated it for ten million years - enough time for humanity to enter civilisation - before finally fading from the world. It would take a hundred thousand years for the gods to return.

It has since been 100 000 years.

Organisms possess another set of DNA-like structures called masomes. These masomes are arranged in sets, called matasomes, with four different masomes denoting each state of matter - p (plasma), g (gas), l (liquid), and s (solid). In humans, they are typically arranged as pxxx-gxxx-lxxx-sxxx, where x represents a variable masome. However, genetic defects can occur that causes different patterns, such as pxxx-pxxx-lxxx-sxxx. In this example, the primary p masome was duplicated and the primary gas masome was eliminated. However, the same phenomenon can occur in any two, three, or in extreme cases, four masomes. The structure and arrangement of masomes determines the elemental powers an organism possesses. The gods, in their human forms, have extremely rare matasomes, arranged in patterns such as pppp-pppp-pppp-pppp (Qiyon's). Other organisms have matasomes with differing amounts of masome groups, ranging from one to several hundred in a single matasome.

Basically the same as in real life, with exceptions made to allow elemental magic to occur.

Just a little bit behind modern day.