Elementals

Elementals are the purest living forms of the inner planes and while it is believed there are only 4 basic elements air, earth, fire, and water when in fact it is 6 basic elements that include the Void and light. Out of these elements less common elements can manifest. Elementals are intelligent, self-aware entities that are made up of the matter of their home plane. They could be summoned to any plane of existence, except the plane of concordance to their element. For example, summoning a fire elemental to the Elemental Plane of Water took more magical power than mortals could conceivably wield.

Elementals are considered intelligent, yet they saw service typically as bound servants or guardians. This binding grated on the elementals, as they were only summoned for a singular purpose. Once that purpose had been fulfilled, they were free to return to their home plane. In some cases, this bondage could span centuries, if not millennia.

Summoning and binding an elemental in this way required much in the way of personal power. An elemental that sensed binding of this manner would fight the caster mentally. If the caster lost this battle of wills, the elemental was free to wreak havoc on the plane it was summoned to. In most cases, the elemental would slay the caster and return to its home plane.

The four main elemental types were fire, water, earth and wind. Races tied to a certain element were much more likely to summon an elemental of that same element.

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