Denizens

Pure Breeds – Fire, Water, Earth, Air Elementals

The most common type of Elemental is the Pure Breeds, each comprised of the most stable form of spiritual energy from one of the four Elemental Realms of Origin.

Volatile Breeds – Acid, Frost, Metal, Storm Elementals

Less common, and arguably more dangerous, are the Volatile breeds. Each is comprised of the more volatile energies from one of the Elemental Realms.

Hybrid Breeds – Steam, Cloud, Dust, Lava Elementals

Hybrid breeds 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 Breeds – 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

Treants – Ents and Hourns

The Primal Spirits of Eden are the Treants. In their truest form they are referred to as Ents or Tree-Herders. Ents that fail the daily resolve test begin to lose their sentience, and are said to being falling asleep, passing first to a stage of partial sentience known as the Huorn. In this form they are more tree than Ent, possessing only a simplistic intellect and all too often foul temperament. Though they can remain a Huorn for many years, sometimes even being roused from their partial slumber to become Ents once more, if slipping further they will fall asleep for good and become like any other tree.

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 Ents to absorb the necessary natural energies to maintain their sentience. As such Ents 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 Ents 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 Ents 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.

Celestials – Celestial Beings and Constellations

Little is known about the Primal 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 Primal 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 Celestial Spirits 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.