Referring back to the popular fantasy story structure, the Hero's Journey, the Mentor is usually the person who either guides the Hero to answer the “Call to Adventure” (moving them from their comfort zone into the unknown), or they are waiting to welcome the Hero after they decide to accept the Call. For more fantasy books the feature heroes like Harry Potter, check out this post. Water bullets on their own would be a heaven-sent gift for fighting fires. Water bullets could actually affect the water in the object they touch, causing a person to instantly freeze or boil. beyond the first few paragraphs, and - *stopping myself from writing a spoiler here, because I strongly recommend that everyone read the story themselves; it's beautifully written and memorable, i.e., it's by Ursula Le Guin*. I’d suggest looking into Terminal Ballistics to see exactly how bullets affect the target to help raise some ideas for how to differentiate between your bullet types’ specialties, just on a basic physical level, without even going into the crazier magic stuff you could do. This is their fantasy world, and we’re just living in it (for a time). It could be magically corroded, afflicting the target with some sort of infection due to the rust in their system. Reedsy is more than just a blog. Hagrid is the one who goes to get Harry, and ushers him into the wizarding world perched atop his flying motorcycle. The latter would be have the bullet also enchant the user or give the user something related to the element? In a story I have, they have magic affinities and that decides what the gun fires. And also there are magical/supernatural creatures that comes with magic in most magic worlds. Whether you're writing or reading, you can find the nonfiction genre for you among these 24 types of nonfiction. They then follow it up with some other bullet to freeze the water as it's crashing down. Types refer to different elemental properties associated with both Pokémon and their moves. Hopefully, some part of this rambling is helpful to you. Thaumaturgy 7. Air could have vorpal abilities (pierces), water could pass the and control the temperatures for example, and fire can explode, burn, set literally something like napalm-fire. Like elves, vampires, werewolves, dragons, skin walkers, lower case gods, etc etc etc. 1 Methods 1.1 Apparition 1.2 Floo Network 1.3 Flying 1.4 Ground travel 1.5 Portkey 1.6 Miscellaneous 2 Appearances 3 Notes and references Apparition allows an individual to vanish and appear at another place almost instantly. As others have suggested, air bullets might behave like Yondu's arrows from the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Esrin Fortuna. Do you want your bullets to penetrate cleanly? Mix! Elves - nurturing beings, smaller than Dwarves. Air bullets could simply be invisible and untraceable, as well as allow more flexibility when it comes to damage and area-of-affect. What makes a tragic hero, tragic? Celestial artifacts like the world runes are also able to magically alter a human. Well, the site TV Tropes has actually named this commonly recurring fantasy character after Aragorn, and who are we to contradict them? There are many potential facets to this character. Metal bullets could just be anti-magic and untouchable by the other elements. The genres are magical girls, comedy, romance, and friendship. The Mentor is typically familiar with the narrative of the conflict (perhaps they’ve seen it play out before), or they’re uniquely equipped to prepare the Hero for their journey. It'd be useful for immobilization. So a water bullet might have a cleansing effect, disabling magical protection. He keeps Sauron’s army busy while Frodo and Sam make their way to Mount Doom — oh, and then he makes sure Mordor is cleared of orcs while they sneak their way up the volcano. While the Friendly Creature sees the good in the Hero and bonds with them, the Evil Creatures cares about, well, no one, really. But the problem is the other 4 elements, they are all physical and all I can think of is simple penetration like IRL bullets. This list covers nine of the most common types of fantasy characters.