Brendan wrote:

What are their elemental specialties?  That is, who is strong in earth,
firwe, water, wind, and spirit.  Do Ranma's elemental specialties change
when he changes form?

As I recall in my own fic, I gave Air to Ranma, Earth to Ryoga, and Fire
to Akane, based on their fighting styles.  Water would also be good for
Ranma of course.  However, I gave Wood/Life to Ukyo, which would
probably be confusing to the Aes Sedai.  But then, there's no guarantee
that Ukyo is even trainable.

        Ranma has a preexisting understanding of Air from his understanding of
the HiruShutenHa and the new techniques he created using that understanding.
Water would only fit in the sense that his style is strongly defensive and
fluid, though air fits in that too.  Ryouga's understanding of earth gained from
the Bakusai Tenketsu hasn't demonstrated the same depth but it's there and it's
significant.  Akane hasn't actually shown any inate ability toward fire, but she
definately has the personality of fire wielder.  I honestly can't see where the
life wood idea came from, I'd associate her more with water since she has a
fiarly defensive fighting style.

Mainly I base it on her martial art being based on cooking.  Not only
are okonomyaki fundamentally vegetable based, but despite having turned
it into a combat style, her art is fundamentally that of keeping people
fed.  Thus life.  Of course in WoT, she could do worse than to be strong
in Spirit.