Noobitron asked Andrew Rowe:

Hi Andrew! So I was wondering if for example I am someone with ice mana and I use let's say Body of Ice. Would elemental weaknesses and overall weaknesses transfer to your body if used enough? example: after using enough times Body of Ice your body will melt if exposed to fire or: your arm will shatter like ice if is hit too hard instead of breaking. Thank you for your time and have a good day!

Andrew Rowe Great question. Your body would not develop a weakness on that scale - Body of Ice doesn't turn your body into ice, regardless of the name. Instead, body techniques draw essence into the body and shape it to improve physical characteristics. An excessive amount of a specific type of essence in the body *does* make you potentially more vulnerable to the types of essence that oppose it, but in order to have any truly significant effect, it would have to contact the essence within your body - and most attack magic isn't doing that unless it breaks through the skin. So, any vulnerability you developed from using that technique repeatedly would be mild - it's not making you into an ice elemental.

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