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- Elementa are not monsters, not as we know them. They are the embodiment of forces of nature summoned or created by mages. As any scholar knows, there are four other planes of existence which consist entirely of one of our four “elements”: earth, air, fire, and water. Powerful mages can open doors to these dimensions, grab great swathes of the elemental power, and use magic to form a creature from it. But the mage in question must be very powerful indeed since—like most beings—elementa do not like being told what to do.
- Many lesser scholars would point to the genie as the best example of an elementa, but they are, in fact, almost in a class of their own. While genie are classified as elementa, and they are coalesced beings of magic, summoned from their native plane, these creatures hold a power far beyond the vast majority of elementa summoned by mages or found near places of power. As all magic is, in theory, derived from genie, they are capable of staggering magical feats that most mages could only ever dream of. For this reason, many mages have tried to summon and enslave genie. This has almost always proven to be a poorly conceived plan and more often than not leaves a tremendous amount of destruction and an angry genie who is now loosed on the Continent.
- Most commonly, the elementa one might encounter are creatures of earth, be they earth elementals, golem, or gargoyles, and they are the result of the earth animated by magic from the plane of earth. Mud, clay, sand, or rocks clumped together and animated have the nature you would expect. They are not particularly bright, but can’t be knocked down, don’t feel pain, and nothing stops them. Once created, they are perpetually loyal to their creator, and they can smash a human with a one hundred-pound fist, so they often do their mage’s dirty work.
- Many of these elementals are found, dormant, in elven ruins. Perhaps that is how some elven cities were built. Ancient elven magic may have been heavily oriented toward the summoning of elementals. I’m sure there were many tasks that the elves considered beneath them and an elemental, especially one of earth, never gets bored, and never lets up.
- While earth magic’s steady temperament makes it the easiest magic to use, elementa of other elements do exist. Water elementa are manageable, and ice elementals are similar to earth elementals. Creatures of fire on the other hand are perhaps the worst idea ever. It is said that the first fire elemental created destroyed everything for several blocks around. They attack with bursts and streams of flame and their extreme heat makes it deadly to even get close enough to strike them so often they must be fought from a distance.
- The only vulnerability of many elementals is to dimeritium, the magical, or should I say, anti-magical substance that dampens magic and is used in chains and shackles to control mages.
—Brandon of Oxenfurt
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