Fonon

Fonons
Fonons are basic particles of sound found in every element in Planet Auldrant, featured in Tales of the Abyss.

Ever since the beggining of existance, Fonons have existed within everything the eye can see, splitting into six different cathegories of Fonons, each representing an element.

-First: Darkness -Second: Water -Third: Wind -Fouth: Earth -Fifth: Fire -Sixth: Light

Thrugh the times, Fonon research lead over into the discovery of a mutation of a variety of all the six fonons, resulting in a new type of Fonon with special characteristics, only known as The Seneventh Fonon.

The power that the Seventh Fonon held was the cause for the Fonic Wars back in the Dawn Age.

Some identify the Seventh Fonon as the Fonon of Life, since Healers use the Seventh Fonon for those Artes. But it is also known as the Fonon of Memory, since Scorers who read the Planet´s score use it as well.

Fonon Appliance
Tale of the Abyss uses these Fonons to interact on the Battlefield and bring power to Artes users into FOFs, or Field of Fonons.

A Field of Fonons is a circle of the size of the range of the elemental attack used, and represents the element of the Arte as well. As the same element is used over and over, the mass of Fonons increases in the Fields generated, as they adopt the Color of their element when reaching a certain ammount of Fonons.

After this done, the Arte User may stand within the Field of Fonons, or cast a Fonic Arte targetting the Field of Fonons to unleash an FOF-Change, in which the arte absorbs the Fonons in the FOF, and unleashes an upgraded elemental version of the arte.

Combinations for FOF-Changes vary per Arte, and Enemies may use FOFs to their advantage if the Player is not careful and fast to use the FOF.