Teratan Elementals

Elementals with "monstrous" forms.

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Chehhalput

Peninsular elementals shaped like giant reptiles.

• Lifespan: 500 years
• Diet: Elemental slurry
• Habitat: Peninsulae
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed or Colonized

Chehhalputs are, in their base form, the size of the peninsulae they represent; however, they usually channel their consciousness into a smaller vessel, usually about 8’ tall if they are bipedal or up to 20’ long if they are not. They always take the form of a large reptile made up on the land, water, and vegetation of their peninsula. The reptile is usually crocodilian (even if no crocodilians are native to their area). If they are not bipedal and anthropomorphic, they can have as many legs as they want, up to 20. They always have six eyes made of shells, stones, or seeds that burn with a green light.

Chehhalputs convert anything they eat into an elemental slurry, melting it in their gullet and swallowing it. This is easy if it is not industrial magic, but they can even convert industrial magic with some effort. Thus, they are omnivorous.

In their smaller form, they have the ability to speak to any animal, plant, or fungus native to their home peninsula (including any underground or off the coast thereof, up to a limit). They can commune with other elementals, especially viridianites, of the region, and they have control over one specific aspect of the peninsula (its earth, water, air, animals, plants, or fungi, usually). In their larger form, they are the peninsula and therefore have complete control over it.

To take on their smaller form, they must give up most of their power and control, and while they can return to their larger form so long a they are on the peninsula, they cannot switch back and forth easily. If they return from their smaller form to their larger form, they cannot return again to the smaller form for a year and a day thereafter, and must rest substantially between.

If they are on another peninsula, they have limited control and power over it, and they can commune with the local chehhalput, if there is one.

Chehhalputs worship elementals and Mother Shem, oceanic deities and elementals, and other beings of nature, and they consider themselves protectors of the natural world they embody.

They rarely leave their own peninsulae, but if they do, there is always a good reason for it, usually to do with protecting it. Some. however, have been captured and enslaved by imperials or somehow prevented from returning to their greater form.

PRO 9 ATH 9 STR 17 AWA 8 WIL 9 PRS 8 STH 6

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Crystal Folk

Elementals of light, made of crystal.

• Alignment: Elemental

• Lifespan: 500 years

• Diet: Energy

• Habitat: Crystal fields and light forests in the sky

• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Crystal folk never stop growing unless they trim themselves regularly. As adults, they can reach up to 30’ in height if they are untended, but most keep themselves to 10’ or so for practical reasons. If they dwell in non-giant societies, they shave themselves down to the height of those they dwell with. They are made entirely of jagged crystals filled with different colored lights. Crystals are all translucent, but they also vary in colors. They are anthropomorphic to a vague degree - they have arms, legs, and long, jagged fingers - but their faces are blank unless they sculpt them intentionally - something they do only to appease other mortals. They do have mouths, but only to speak with. Their voices come from the energies within them vibrating the crystals in their throats. They have natural indentations in their heads that are sometimes confused with eyes, but these are simply a consequence of how they grow.

Crystal folk have excellent vision. They can absorb esoteric energies and convert them into elemental light within their bodies (this is how they “eat”). They are made of crystal and therefore do not feel the cold, and heat is often absorbed unless it is extreme.

When any form of light touches their bodies, it is refracted. Part of it becomes elemental light, part of it becomes mundane light, and the rest remains the kind of esoteric light it was to begin with (if it was esoteric).

The energy within a crystal person can be directed by them from within their core (torso) and out of their hands in beams. These beams are pure elemental light or mundane light, usually, though they can redirect other forms of esoteric light if they have stored enough of it. If they use their inner light, however, they must recharge.

Most crystal folk come from the sky continent Gyrah, where they dwell in a country called Lesedi and tend a massive magical mirror called the Lesedian Mirror. They live in a classless, stateless, egalitarian society and commune with the light of the world and all magical energies. They are deeply spiritual and worship Sedeia, the Mother of Light. They have no concept of gender.

In the imperial lands, they are extremely oppressed. They are considered too strange to keep as slaves, though the lack of needing to feed them sometimes means people attempt it. They are very much pariahs and outcasts.

PRO 8 ATH 8 STR 10 Toughness 12 AWA 11 WIL 9 PRS 9 STH 6

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Rychelley

NPC only

Island turtles.

• Lifespan : 10,000 years
• Diet: Fish and plankton
• Habitat: Bodies of water
• Socioeconomic Status: Matriarchal

Rychelleys are elemental island turtles. They embody different kinds of islands, floating in water with some kind of island on their backs. They can be as small as a few feet or as large as a few miles

The powers of a rychelley are determined by the kind of island they represent. Sandbar turtles and volcanic isle turtles are very different. But all of them are very perceptive, can sense fluctuations in the waters around them, and can control the island on their back at will. They are sea turtles who will protect their island at all costs, and thus, they do not dive or go on land.

They are feared even by the ruling class, so no one hunts them except the most vicious, ruthless, or suicidal. They live in small clustered communities, cooperating with other species living upon them.

PRO 9 ATH 9 Swimming 14 STR 25 Shell +10/+10 AWA 17 WIL 17 PRS 11 STH 7

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Ushibohu

NPC only.

Giant living faces that dwell on land bridges.

• Lifespan: 500 years
• Diet: Energies
• Habitat: Land bridges
• Socioeconomic Status: Despised and Feared

Ushibohu appear to be giant stony faces that are formed out of the land of the land bridge they are born from. They are about 12’ tall, 4’ thick ovals with facelike indentations on the front and intricate natural etchings on the back. They are the color of the most abundant local stone.

Ushibohu cannot move except to turn around or to faceplant or return back to upright. They can see to the ends of their land bridge no matter what is in their way. They absorb magical and natural energies that flow past them for sustenance.

When they speak, their voices can command land, sky, and water nearby. Their voices are extremely powerful and can be heard throughout the land bridge.

Ushibohu form naturally on every land bridge, though most of them throughout the world have been destroyed by those who fear or do not understand them. Those that survive often hide, pretending to be normal stones. They are protectors of the natural landscape around them, which they revere and are revered by.

PRO 9 ATH 1 STR 30 AWA 20 WIL 20 PRS 7 STH 8