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| Species | Kiir |
| Order | Viridianite |
| Classification | Elemental |
| Family | Atmospheric |
| Sphere | Air |
| Origin | Winds aether that gained sentience |
| Lifespan | Minor: 1 year Moderate: 1,000 years Greater: Inmortal |
| Terrain | The sky |
| Food | Aether |
| Forms | Most kiirs are briefly extant, a strong wind that survives and moves throughout the world by never stopping. These take the form of a breeze or stronger wind with no real form beyond that. Once they gain in strength, they often take a cloud, dust, or other material to give themselves a visible form. This ornamentation gives them definition and allows them to center on something, and the power to form a face. As they gain in strength, they will either take on a more humanoid form made of their chosen ornamentation or a whirlwind form, the latter of which will cause them to lose energy much faster. |
| Procreation | Kiirs cannot form unless they have enough winds aether to last for at least a year. They form out of other kiirs as strands of winds break off. |
| Esoterica | Kiirs are beings of winds aether. Weaker kiirs have some command over the energy, but only the stronger ones learn other arts, usually based on other characteristics of their associated area or pattern. |
| Special Powers | As beings made of wind, kiirs have command of their own selves that allows them to move objects to the degree their strength allows. They can also command weaker winds around them, or stagnant air, to move. As they gain strength, they gain powers such as the power to hear over vast distances, the ability to draw winds together into stronger winds, the power to take the breath from someone's body, the language of birds and other things that fly, or to sing such that the air becomes still. When a kiir has a locus, it works differently than other elementals, as the locus is mobile, usually a wind pattern or part of the sky. These give them even greater powers still. |
| Collective Powers | When four or more kiirs come together, they either fight (thus destroying each other in a whirlwind) or combine into a greater kiir, taking on a locus. If four or more kiirs have the same pattern or move in the same direction, they can create a massive gale. If they move in opposing directions, they create tornados. If they coil about each other, they usually take on part of the sky as a locus. |
| Elementalism | Anyone who breathes air can bond with a kiir, though it is easier for those with innate winds aether or users of the energy. All it requires is to breathe in part of the kiir and a willingness on both sides to bond. Bonding gives the mortal a lighter body, stronger breath, and greater hearing. Stronger kiir give their bondees command over the air. Forced bonding requires trapping the kiir in an airtight vessel via some other art (gebvel, earthpower, white tiger aether, mana, ethereal energy, imperium, parasitic energy, yahas, or some other power). Winds aether can then be drawn from the kiir and used to control air in many ways. Any druid who can breathe can commune with kiirs. This is one of the easiest forms of elemental communion, but the effects are often brief if the kiir is not very powerful. They gain similar powers to those who bond with kiirs, plus the power to speak to birds, the ability to sense moving air anywhere nearby, and greater control of winds. Windsingers and dancers can wield a kiir's power by singing or dancing with them. |
| Weaknesses | If a kiir is sealed in something air-tight, it will eventually die. Brown aether destroys them. Earthpower and white tiger essence can be used to slow them down. |
| Behavior | Kiirs are mercurial beings. They flit about, seeking movement and freedom. They never stop moving for very long, even if it is only internal. They protect the skies and keep the winds moving as they should be, maintaining the system of air throughout the world. |
| Mortal Interactions | Most mortals know nothing of kiirs, but sailors, zailors, and windfarmers are especially aware of them, seeing them as beings to befriend. Windsingers and dancers seek them out as partners to gain skill, and the People of the Wind view them as aspects of the Skyfather. |
| Notables | Worldwide/Conglomerate: Ban-ee-dene, Great Wide Sky, Kiir Manifest, Mother-and-Father of the Skies; Indege, the Jetstreams, the Great Net; Anu-Kunahh, the Gyran Follower Major Atmospheric Layers: Hiel-Thermos, Elemental of the Thermosphere, Aurora-Bearer; Hiel-Stratos, Elemental of the Stratosphere, Marshal of the Winds; Exos, Elemental of the Exosphere, Emissary of the Quartz Wind; Mesos, Elemental of the Mesosphere, Emissary of the Conglomerate Pillar; Tropos, Elemental of the Troposphere, Emissary of Bronze Winds Four Main Winds: Eurus, Elemental of the East Wind, Jack of the Sky, also known as the Moose Wind or Kedem; Zephyrus, Elemental of the West Wind, Paragon of Winds, also known as Hutchai or the Panther Wind; Boreas, Emissary of Hoary Pillar, Elemental of the North Wind, known also as Negagfok or Qebui; Notus, the Elemental of the South Wind, Emissary of the Topaz Flame, or the Fawn Wind, Egoi or Shehbui Great Skies: Free Sky in Gyrah; Aeridan Gap in Gyrah; Psywind Narrows near Psyara in Gyrah; Great Blue in Palhur; Sweet Rising in Ranu; Wasieat Dhahabia in Mati; Syrroth-Alak in Ansulym; Ucca in Dabusen; World Bliss in Cassaru; Bit'ibit'I in Taggarus; Speir Bhac in Lyrilla; Weicherhimmel in Jesenya Major Winds: Olympias, Queen of the Ledean Mountains, Wind of Western Mountains; Meses, Elemental of the Northwest Wind, captured by an atmomagus; Lips, Swarm of the Southwest Wind; Kyrestios, Elemental of the Southeast Wind; Aparctias, Standard-Bearer of the North Wind; Corus, Sword of the Northwest Wind; Argestes, She Who Clears the Northwestern Sky; Thracias, Warden of the North-Northwest Wind; Libonotus, Hierophant of the South-Southeast Wind; Euronotus and Euroauster, Twins Speakers of the South-Southeast Wind; Iapyx, Page of the Northwestern Sky; Circius, Monkey of the North-Northeast Wind; Aquilo, Eagle Wind, Child of the North Wind; Subsolanus, Beetle of the Southeast Wind; Auster, Child of the South Wind, Emissary of Topaz Blossom; Vulturnus, Child of the East Wind, Emissary of the Topaz Obelisk; Septentrio, Child of the North Wind, Breath of Seven Oxen, Emissary of Topaz Shield; Ephirus, Child of the South Wind; Taggaranius, Dancer of the Southwest Wind; Favonius, Child of the West Wind, Bringer of Spring Rains, Emissary of Topaz Blossom; Kaikias, Elemental of the Northeast Wind, Emissary of Topaz Night; Skeiron, Elemental of the Northwest Wind, Bringer of Winter, Paragon of Frost; Apeliotes, Elemental of the Southeast Wind, Bringer of Harvest Rains, Emissary of Amber Pillar Wind Patterns: Khamsin, Elemental of the Winds of the Desert of the Winds; Tramuntana, Elemental of the Winds of the Cassaran Tundra; Lowbuster, Elemental of the Winds of Wohl; Bentu Maestru, Mistral Wind Elemental, Elemental of the Winds of the Reever Sea; Unuhuak, Elemental of the Western Palhuric Winds, Emissary of the Topaz Flame; Ponente, Wind of Western Mati; N'aschi, Wind of Eastern Mati; The Bellwind, Wind of Central Lyrilla Whirlwinds: The Kuustra of the Shattered Plains (captured); The Myahkhehem of Zharum; The Swordwind of Haurkizadh |
| Sample statistics | PRO 11 Wind Control 15 |
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