Elsa, princess of Arendelle and heiress to the throne, is born with the ability to create and control ice and snow. As a child, she uses her abilities to create a winter wonderland to play in with her younger sister and best friend, Princess Anna. One night, Elsa accidentally harms Anna with her powers.

Elsa. Elsa is a mythic character – magical and larger than life. Now completely in control of her powers, she is confident, resolved, and warm Elsa looks after the spirits of nature and embraces her role as the Snow Queen, knowing that it is who she was always meant to be.

Elsa's snow magic. Elsa possesses the magical ability to conjure and manipulate ice and snow. Elsa can manifest and shape various structures made of ice and snow or cold phenomena with the abilities she was born with, from snow flurries to blizzards.

Beyond that, Elsa is a very relatable person. While young children might not be able to appreciate the complex past that molded her character, they can understand that Elsa is overall misunderstood, and this makes her a super interesting character. Her development in Frozen II is even cooler.

Traveling to Ahtohallan, the mythical river rumored to retain memories from the past, Elsa discovers that her powers were a gift from the spirits, and that she is the reincarnation of the fifth spirit, a mediator between the natural world and human civilization.

Elsa is one of the most powerful Disney princesses thanks to her magical ice powers. The heiress to the Arendelle throne is easily capable of manipulating ice, snow, and water.

Traveling to Ahtohallan, the mythical river rumored to retain memories from the past, Elsa discovers that her powers were a gift from the spirits, and that she is the reincarnation of the fifth spirit, a mediator between the natural world and human civilization.

Elsa is the 5th spirit and not the 5th element. She's quit different from the other spirits because each one of them is represented by a physical element (Water, Air, Fire and Earth) which is not her case. Elsa is the 5th spirit, in other words the physical form of Ahtohallan.

Elsa is liked because sympathy: she makes a lot of sacrifices during the film, she is strong, cool, independent (this one is debatable), and have ice powers, and sings LiG, and is voiced by idina menzel, a very popular theater actress.

2. Elsa's self acceptance is utterly inspiring. After hiding her powers and essentially herself for so long, Elsa finally embraces who she truly is as well as her abilities in “Let It Go,” the single most empowering song in a Disney movie for a female (or male) character ever. 3.

Elsa's Mother Already Comes From A Magical Background Before the four elemental spirits vanished, trapping the forest in an enchanted mist, the Northuldra co-existed alongside the spirits, and were deeply connected with the magic of the forest.

Luckily, Elsa learns to control her powers and open her heart to love by the end of Frozen, while Frozen 2 explains that the origin of Elsa's power is her identity as a magical spirit (known simply as “the fifth spirit”) alongside fire, water, earth, and air.

Elsa is one of the most powerful Disney princesses thanks to her magical ice powers. The heiress to the Arendelle throne is easily capable of manipulating ice, snow, and water.

The implication, and it's only ever just that, is that Elsa and Anna's mother is herself somehow attuned to the magical forces such that Elsa was given the gift of superpowers. (Why Anna never received such powers is equally vaguely defined: just as Elsa and Anna's father had no powers, so too would she be power-free.

The four symbols represent water, earth, wind, and fire, and those spirits rule over the Enchanted Forest. "Frozen 2" codirector and writer Jennifer Lee says the source of Elsa's magic was a jumping off point for discussions around the story for the sequel.

As the Fifth Spirit, Elsa is able to awaken the four nature spirits of the forest: fire, air, water and earth. Despite her newfound connection with the elements, however, her powers are still primarily ice-based. In a movie all about change, Elsa's unchanging powers are a crack in an otherwise smooth narrative.