Every creature and every act of violence in Elderspire belongs to one of nine eldritch affinities. Each preys upon two others and falls to two more — reading the matchups is the heart of every fight. Nothing is truly immune; everything has its predator.
Void
The cold between the stars, where being itself thins to nothing. What Void touches is not slain but unwritten — unmade as though it had never been catalogued at all.
Preys upon: 
Flesh 
Psyche
Falls to: 
Husk 
Ember
Flesh
That which grows, hungers, and refuses to stop. Flesh is the spire’s appetite made manifest: teeming, fecund, and never once sated.
Preys upon: Psyche 
Tide
Falls to: Void Ember
Psyche
The mind turned weapon and prison alike. Psyche slips past every defence the body can raise, because it was never aimed at the body.
Preys upon: Tide 
Star
Falls to: Void Flesh
Tide
The drowning deep that remembers every name it has swallowed. The Tide does not crash; it rises, patient and total, until the lungs welcome it home.
Preys upon: Star 
Rot
Falls to: Flesh Psyche
Star
Burning, distant light from suns that died an age ago. To stand in a Star’s glare is to be seen by something that finished counting the heavens long before you were born.
Preys upon: Rot 
Dream
Falls to: Psyche Tide
Rot
Decay made patient and purposeful. Rot does not destroy in haste — it waits, and what it claims it keeps, folding the dead ever deeper into itself.
Preys upon: Dream Husk
Falls to: Tide Star
Dream
What waits on the far side of sleep, and follows you back. Dream unlocks the mind through the one door no waking guard can bar.
Preys upon: Husk Ember
Falls to: Star Rot
Husk
The hollow and the left-behind, emptied of all but hunger. A Husk takes nothing of the body and everything of the warmth, leaving the wound oddly weightless.
Preys upon: Void Ember
Falls to: Rot Dream
Ember
The last warmth before the dark, and the cruelty of its going. Ember’s fire does not consume so much as remember the living into smoke.
Preys upon: Void Flesh
Falls to: Dream Husk
The type chart
| Voi | Fle | Psy | Tid | Sta | Rot | Dre | Hus | Emb | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voi | · | ×2 | ×2 | · | · | · | · | ×½ | ×½ |
| Fle | ×½ | · | ×2 | ×2 | · | · | · | · | ×½ |
| Psy | ×½ | ×½ | · | ×2 | ×2 | · | · | · | · |
| Tid | · | ×½ | ×½ | · | ×2 | ×2 | · | · | · |
| Sta | · | · | ×½ | ×½ | · | ×2 | ×2 | · | · |
| Rot | · | · | · | ×½ | ×½ | · | ×2 | ×2 | · |
| Dre | · | · | · | · | ×½ | ×½ | · | ×2 | ×2 |
| Hus | ×2 | · | · | · | · | ×½ | ×½ | · | ×2 |
| Emb | ×2 | ×2 | · | · | · | · | ×½ | ×½ | · |