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Elementals are incarnations f the elements that make An air elemental is a funneling cloud of whirling air with
up the universe: air, earth, fire, and water. Though a vague semblance of a face. Although it likes to race
little more than animated energy on their own planes across the ground, picking up dust and debris as it goes,
of existence, they can be called on by spellcasters and it can also fly and attack from above.
powerful beings to take shape and perform tasks. An air elemental can turn itself into a screaming
Living Elements. On its home plane, an elemental is cyclone, creating a whirlwind that batters creatures
a bodiless life force. Its dim consciousness manifests even as it flings them away.
as a physical shape only when focused by the power
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of magic. A wild spirit of elemental force has no E A R TH L E M E NTAL
desire except to course through the element of its An earth elemental plods forward like a walking hill,
native plane. Like beasts of the Material Plane, these club-like arms of jagged stone swinging at its sides. Its
elemental spirits have no society or culture, and little head and body consist of dirt and stone, occasionally set
sense of being. with chunks of metal, gems, and bright minerals.
Conjured b y M a gic. Certain spells and magic items Earth elementals glide through rock and earth
can conjure an elemental, summoning it from the Inner as though they were liquid. Earthbound creatures
Planes to the Material Plane. Elementals instinctively have much to fear from an earth elemental, since the
resent being pulled from their native planes and bound elemental can pinpoint the precise location of any foe
into service. A creature that summons an elemental that stands on solid ground in its vicinity.
must assert force of will to control it.
Bound and Shaped. Powerful magic can bind an F I R E E L E M E NTAL
elemental spirit into a material template that defines
a specific use and function. Invisible stalkers are air A faint humanoid shape threads through the core of
elementals bound to a specific form, in the same way this wild, moving flame. A fire elemental is a force of
that water elementals can be shaped into water weirds. capricious devastation. Wherever it moves, it sets its
The strength of the magic and materials that bind an surroundings ablaze, turning the world to ash, smoke,
elemental determines how well the elemental functions and cinders. Water can halt its destructive progress,
in a bound form. Golems are elemental spirits bound to causing the fire elemental to shrink back, hissing and
physical forms, but weaker materials such as flesh and smoking in pain and rage.
clay can't bind elemental power sufficiently. Durable W A T R E L E M E N T A L
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materials such as stone and iron require stronger magic,
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which consequently binds an elemental more securely. A water elemental s a cresting wave that rolls across
Elemental N a ture. An elemental doesn't require air, the ground, becoming nearly invisible at it courses
food, drink, or sleep. through a larger body of water. It engulfs creatures that
stand against it, filling their mouths and lungs as easily
as it smothers flame.