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Elementals: Humans capable of manipulating and mastering elements. Their gifts come from El and the Celestials, who bestowed gifts upon selected humans to fight beings from other worlds, as well as against the aberrations created by sorcerers and mages.

Elementals have a strong connection with nature and its elements and are not magical, although it may seem so to some. Elementals themselves do not consider their gifts as magic, but rather as manipulation and mastery of the elements around them, although they have a connection that many consider divine, with nature, elements, and even creatures, being able to create a unique and special bond with a chosen creature, enhancing the creature’s natural abilities and gifts.

The ability to bond is rare, although it wasn’t in the past. This changed when elementals started to abuse this gift and cause more harm than good to the world and even to the creatures they were bonded with, corrupting themselves and their creatures.

Some say that El and the Celestials were the ones who did this, limiting and bestowing such gift only upon those they deemed worthy. While others believe that the ability was lost over time, and that only some can have a primal connection with their gift, allowing them to create a bond with a creature. Others think that wizards, witches, and mages cast a spell that somehow blocked such gift in most elementals.

In any case, such bond can only be formed with one creature, and it makes them capable of even sensing the presence, emotions, and intentions of the elemental the creature is bonded with. At times, they may even resemble the bonded elemental in personality. This connection can only be broken if the creature or the elemental dies, but if the elemental lives and the creature dies, the elemental can later bond with another creature, although it is not immediate, as the bond between elemental and creature is so intense that many elementals who lose their creatures often decide not to bond again. Breaking such a bond is described by many as losing a part of oneself or losing a relative.

Elementals have enhanced strength, speed, and other attributes and are naturally superior to ordinary humans. They can go for days without sleeping, breaking limits that ordinary humans wouldn’t be able to or wouldn’t find easy, although it is still harmful in the long run. Elementals are also immune to the effects of the elements they were gifted with.

For example, a fire elemental can survive extreme heat temperatures, and the same goes for air, ice, and others. Even when placed in situations and locations with a climate opposite to their element, they can still survive for a long time and well. Although much of this resistance is specific to the elemental itself.

Their power levels and elemental mastery vary and depend on lineage, control of the specific being, and even training. For example, a family that never had elementals among them may end up having one or more elementals, who may be extremely strong in their elements or not.

Their gifts may increase or be naturally strong enough to alter the entire climate of a place or create entire armies, but that level of power was lost with the first elementals, who were the first to receive gifts from El and the Celestials. Although some can indeed achieve at least half of what the first elementals did. They are never at the same level as the first, but come close, even on a smaller scale, to such a high power level. These elementals are known as Masters and are highly respected among others.

Elementals are born in all corners of the world, from Rhiriam, the continent beyond Petrus and Darian, to Valian, in the kingdom of faeries. However, they are more common in Darian and Petrus, while in other places, they are rarer.

The elements that elementals have mastery over are: water, ice, air, fire, earth, shadow, metal, and light. Although some are rarer than others. There are also the rarest of all, the Naturals, capable of mastering from trees and roots to the rarest flowers and plants.

Important detail: Elementals cannot use runes on their bodies to enhance their gifts or something similar, not permanently, as this could lead to their death or affect their bodies in unpredictable and sometimes brutal ways. Elementals cannot use magic or spells. Their bodies were not made for that and it causes them to reject magic of any kind. The only runes that were once used on elementals were for enslavement and containment, which obviously have no positive effects on their bodies and were created through prohibited and dangerous methods. Although the runes can be removed, whether they have been activated by spells and magic of the mages or not, the process can be painful, although necessary.