The Almagest see the Adaptive quality of an Element as that element in its adaptive state, harnessed and used by man: air used by a blacksmith’s bellows to stoke a flame, or the wind caught by a ship’s sails or a windmill; soil used to plant crops, and the stones used for simple tools or a castle’s mighty walls; fire used for cooking and for heat, or to forge weapons and tools; water used to wash, or to grind grain in a watermill. Almagest gods with a Mutable element include the Trickery domain in their portfolios.
- Air Adaptive – Altair, the Griffin
- Earth Adaptive – Ketesias, the Unicorn
- Fire Adaptive – Atrarora, the Salamander
- Water Adaptive – Melquart, the Hippocampus