Dormancy
Five
Five noun - The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.
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In Wu Xing, there are five elements, but Fire, Water (defined by coldness, Winter and darkness, thus ice) and Metal (in which lightning falls under) are more distinct and more closely follow the life/death model seen above (Fire = Life, Metal = Decay/Death and Water = Death/Afterlife/Dormancy).
Source: Fire, Ice, Lightning
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