Elemental
Not necessarily a distinct species by itself, an Elemental is instead a living aspect of pure magical power. Elementals take the form of whatever magical element they are derived from and can, as a result, come in an unlimited variety of shapes, from massive, lumbering rock elementals, to quick, briefly existing lightning elementals. Most elementals also combine this form with that of another living species, so that they can appear in the approximate shapes of humans or animals. Intelligence can vary from elemental to elemental, but almost all possess a feral, purely instinctive mentality. The Higher Elementals of Lorwyn are the most intelligent and elusive creatures of that plane and are seen as gods by many of the other races.
On the plane of Kamigawa, when a Kami crosses over from the Kami realm to the Mortal realm they do so in a manner that makes them appear as elementals, taking form from whatever substance they are most in tune with. However, because they have unique, pre-existing identities they are more akin to spirits, and are classed as such on this list.
(Thorn Elemental, Spark Elemental, Air Elemental, Verdant Force, Silvos, Rogue Elemental)
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Famous quotes containing the word elemental:
“When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
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—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“But the lightning which explodes and fashions planets, maker of planets and suns, is in him. On one side elemental order, sandstone and granite, rock-ledges, peat-bog, forest, sea and shore; and on the other part, thought, the spirit which composes and decomposes nature,—here they are, side by side, god and devil, mind and matter, king and conspirator, belt and spasm, riding peacefully together in the eye and brain of every man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)