Denizens

True Elementals – Fire, Water, Earth, Air Elementals

The most common type of Elemental spirit is essentially the pure breeds, each comprised of the most stable form of spiritual energy from one of the four Elemental Realms of Origin.

Volatile Elementals – Acid, Frost, Metal, Storm Elementals

Less common, and arguably more dangerous, are the Volatile elementals. These are true elementals that have wandered too far inwards towards order (Water and Earth elementals) or outwards towards chaos (Fire and Air elementals) in each of their respective elemental realms. The exposure to the volatile energies found in these areas within their realms have fundamentally transformed them from their original form. In some cases it seems possible for them to revert back to true elementals, however the exact particulars of this process are unknown.

Crossbreed Elementals – Steam, Cloud, Dust, Lava Elementals

Crossbreed elementals do not naturally exist in any realm but are instead created through mad experiments and forbidden magics that attempt to bind Elemental Spirits together. This can be done with some measure of success, provided the polarities of the two Elemental Spirits cancel each other out and achieve balance. However such practice is highly offensive to Elementals as well as the typically well meaning Shaman’s that serve them.

Unstable Elementals – Mud and Smoke Elementals

Though largely theoretical, there are also thought to be two breeds of Unstable Elementals. By fusing water and earth elemental spirits, one could create a mud elemental, however there is no balance maintained in this fusion as both are of ordered polarity, making the binding difficult if not impossible to maintain. Likewise, fusing fire and air to create an smoke elemental would be highly unstable due to the combining of two chaotic polarities

Elemental Imps

Elemental imps are a form of lesser elemental spirits that can be found throughout the elemental realms, and the border realms between them. They are generally of evil alignment, however this evil manifests more in the form of a cruel mischievousness, rather than pure malevolence. While not particularly dangerous on their own, they tend to congregate in packs and grow bolder as their numbers increase.

Treants (and awaken Trees, Shrubs, etc…)

The most common Spirits of Eden manifest in the Realm of Strife as Treants. In their truest form these tree spirits are often thought of as fully sentient and awakened trees, who see it as their duty to act as protectors and shepherds of the forest. Treants that fail the daily resolve test begin to lose their sentience, and are said to being falling asleep, passing into stage of partial sentience. In this form they are more tree than Treant, and are referred to simply as awakened trees. As awakened trees they possess only a instinctual intellect and all too often foul temperament. Though they can remain awakened for many years, sometimes even being roused from their partial slumber to become full Treants once more, if slipping further they will fall asleep for good and become like any other tree, their spirit trapped within the tree until it perishes through natural causes, flame or axe. Only then is the spirit released back to its true home in Eden.

Eden’s regenerative influence is prevalent in the Realm of Strife, found anywhere that plants grow and thrive, but especially so in the heart of the forest. This makes it relatively easy for Treants to absorb the necessary natural energies to maintain their sentience. As such Treants very often grow to be ancient beings, with long memories and even longer stories for those with the patience to hear them. In the deepest parts of the most ancient forests it is even thought that perhaps some Treants have existed since the very beginning of the Realm of Strife, stranded there when Creation was shattered by the subversive will of the Demons.

Certainly many Treants find their way to the Realm of Strife like any other spirit, summoned by a practitioner of the spiritual arts to fulfill their own goals. Similar to Elemental Shamans, Wild Shamans have learned the Primal Tongue of Treants and typically treat them with reverence and respect. Treants that are summon in this way are bound to the tree that becomes their physical body in the Realm of Strife but can be released back to Eden by the one who summoned them.

Celestials – Celestial Beings and Constellations

Little is known about the spirits of the Cosmos, generically referred to as Celestials or Celestial beings, but more often known by their individual names as constellations. This is simply because above all Spirits, they struggle the most to survive in the Realm of Strife, requiring vast amounts of energy to maintain their form. While the Cosmos is thought to completely surround the Realm of Strife, clearly evident when gazing upwards at a clear night sky, it seems to be the most removed of any of the Realms of Origin, with sources of Celestial energy few and far between.

While astronomers can list the names of a near infinite number of constellations, the only ones that can claim any true understanding of the spirits of the Cosmos are the Celestial Shamans, and these are as rare as a fallen star.

Unlike other Shamans, Celestial Shamans must typically commune with the Celestials at a distance, for the very presence of a celestial is said to cause mysterious maladies and even death. Yet what the few recorded interactions with celestials can say with certainty, is that these beings are immensely powerful and not to be trifled with. But to gain their favor, that is a undeniably powerful boon.