Air Elemental
Beings of living wind and air, elementals are the primary inhabitants of Auria, and are closely related to Akadi, the Primordial of Air.
Basic Information
Anatomy
Air elementals are able to appear completely invisible, and when they appear, are visible only due to the accepted presence of particles in their form. They can take the shapes of gaseous clouds, or pick up solid particles in a tornado-like vortex. In movement, they most commonly looked like a whirling hurricane or a streaking vector of wind. Their forms are commonly vaguely humanoid, but as these sightings are nearly always reported by humanoids, this may be a case of imitation or attempted relation rather than preference.
Genetics and Reproduction
Air elementals do not reproduce like material creatures. Instead, they are all part of the larger element, and if dispersed, reform later in the heart of Auria.
Ecology and Habitats
Dietary Needs and Habits
Elementals do not require food or drink, and do not sleep.
Behaviour
Elementals represent the changeability and flexibility of their elements. Some scholars argue that they do not have moods, only reflections of their natural role in a given situation. A wind contained will naturally break free, for instance, and so the destruction of a captive elemental should not be interpreted as anger, but as a natural consequence.
Others attribute the origin of elementals to the shift that all Primordials withstood in the formation of the material Realms, which is when elementals first appeared. Under this theory, elementals represent the fragmented personhood and essence of their element. In the case of air, its playfulness, wanderlust, its fury, and even its passivity. This animism-adjacent view is most common in the Elemental realms, and is generally supported by the elementals' genie cousins.
Additional Information
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
The speed of an Air Elemental is unmatched. Being incorporeal, material weapons are useless against them. As joined to the air and winds around them as humans are to their own blood and breath, they had unrestrained and innate control over their core element. The force of an air elemental's created wind has been reported as strong as a hurricane, capable of bending metal and tearing apart structures. By manipulating vapours and particulate in the air, they can also conduct and direct electricity.
Civilization and Culture
Major Language Groups and Dialects
These elementals were capable of speaking and understanding Aurian, but rarely deigned to communicate with language, as their messages generally came through just as clearly by the expressions of their element.
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
Regarded as having personhood by most elemental-kin such as genies and genasi, as well as the Primordials who were capable of - but rarely indulged in - exerting control over them, Elementals occupy a place as respected occupants of their elemental realms. Air elementals, representing the flexibility and changeable nature of air and wind, were generally easy to live alongside, objecting seldom to the activities of other beings.
Air Elemental by Pathfinder
Genetic Ancestor(s)
Genetic Descendants
Scientific Name
ventum vivum
Origin/Ancestry
Elemental
Geographic Distribution
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