Ah, but that depends on your definition of 'element.' In science, yes, there are over a hundred. There are a hundred and eighteen, at the moment, with more being discovered every year. I'm a sorcerer; I work with magic. Elementals can manipulate water, fire, earth, and air. They were around long before some of the scientific elements were.

[It's only after he puts this straight that another thought occurs to him, and his head tilts to the side.] How many other people here can control them?