The Classical Elements as Alignment

Each creature has an alignment.  This alignment is their relationship to the four elements.  The alignment of a mortal can shift over time by spending a long period in proximity to a certain element or radical shifts in personal ideals.

The Four Elements are as follows:
Water (Phlegmatic) Values: Transforming, Collecting, Reflecting
Earth (Melancholic) Values: Enduring, Remembering, Providing
Fire (Coleric) Values: Destroying, Illuminating, Dancing
Air (Sanguine) Values: Escaping, Animating, Sending

Alignment is described by four points distributed between the four elements (elements vary from 0-4.)  Elementals have all 4 points in their native element.  Worshippers of a deity tend to have at least 3 overlapping points with their deity and clerics tend to have 4.

Alignment notation is: water-earth-fire-air
(e.g. Oceanus' Alignment: 4-0-0-0)

Alignment Examples:
Dryad: 2-2-0-0
Dragon: 0-1-2-1
Unicorn: 1-1-1-1
Troll: 1-0-1-2
Shade: 1-0-0-3
Hill Giant: 1-2-1-0
Basilisk: 2-1-1-0
Dwarf: 0-3-1-0
Chimera: 0-0-3-1
Centaur: 0-2-0-2
Knight: 0-1-2-1
Tempestarius: 2-0-0-2
Mercenary: 1-1-2-0

Alignment as Rock Paper Scissors

This is a tie breaking system I came up with for spells, but also as a potential universal tiebreaker. I don't think I will make any use of this system in Fire Tales. When you have a tie check alignments to see who wins:

Lawful beats Neutral.

Neutral beats Chaotic.

Chaotic beats Lawful.

If both are Lawful - Whoever has less to lose wins.

If both are Neutral - Whoever is more experienced wins.

If both are Chaotic - Whoever has more to lose wins.