Elementals

Elementals can be defined as spirits inhabiting unanimed elemental matter. However they are infinitely more complex than just, say moving water with a mind of its own. Once the matter is possessed, it becomes the body of the creature and forms complex organs just like a normal body. It take days or weeks for an elemental to developp properly its body when it first inhabits it.

Because of Felarya's magic nature, most elementals are able to animate huge mass of matter, making them gigantic. And because an elemental needs a lot of energy to maintain its form, they need to eat a lot. They hunt pretty much anything that is living and can consume large preys : their body is modulable which means their throat, maw and stomach can stretch to a great extent.

Elementals are extremely hard to kill. If you fight one in its own element, the task can become all but impossible because the elemental will use the surrounding to sustain itself. And when the current body is too damaged, the elemental will just leave it and search for another chunk of matter to animate in a quieter place. However once an elemental spirit has choosen a type of matter, it will never been able to use another type. A fire elemental will never become an ice elemental for example.

The only sure way to get rid of an elemental is to either devour its spirit -- but creatures able to perform that are rare -- or use a banish spelll once the spirit is separated from the body to take it away. Using opposite elemental magic is also a good way to damage them ( water vs fire for example ). There is no existing spellcaster strong enough to harm an elemental using its own element ( besides the Coldfire used by some very rare beings, among them the succubus Arale ).

The intelligence and consciousness degree of elementals varies enormously from one specimen to another. There is some spirits barely aware of themselves and some with a mind closer to a god than a human's. There is a wide spectrum of personnalities as well. You can meet a grumpy earth elemental or an impish and friendly lightning one.

List of elements

Fire

earth - sand - rock

air - smoke

water - fog - ice

lightning

darkness

Lava

negative

Known Elementals

Déméchrelle ( darkness )