Elemental Insubstantiates

Species without hard physical bodies, usually made of elemental gas or energy.

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Awan

Living chemical clouds.

• Lifespan: 50 years
• Diet: Matter
• Habitat: Anywhere
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Awans are living chemical clouds that are always either basic or acidic. They appear to be about 4' in diameter, floating about 6' off the ground, with a vague impression of a face within. The acidic ones are white in color, the basic ones are black.

Every awan is composed of a different kind of acid or base, and thus, each one has control over a different chemical.

Awans are extremely rare, living mostly in places where their acid or base occurs naturally. Even rarer are those who represent chemicals that do not occur naturally. Awans live in small communities, seeking out matter to consume, and living simple lives, as they need very few resources to get by. They are extremely intelligent, however, and well versed on the ways of the universe. Many are captured and enslaved for their powers over chemicals.

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Calorian

Heat elementals

• Lifespan: 40 years
• Diet: Energy
• Habitat: Anywhere hot
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Calorians are visible, living heat waves, about 4’ tall and 2’ wide, amorphous and intense in their high temperatures. Most are about 500 degrees hot on average, never less than 200.

Calorians control the heat around them. They must find energies - mundane or esoteric - to absorb for fuel. The hotter they burn, the quicker they burn out. Powerful calorians can take on a hominid form and ignite themselves, turning into fire beings, but they burn out almost immediately. If they enter a pre-existing fire, they can control it or absorb it, but not both.

Calorians live in small family clusters in warm places. These families are loose, anarchic, and communally focused, helping one another feed and stay hot. Most calorians, however, are captured and enslaved by industrial powers and used in factories.

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Celerian

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Derek'ineti

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Diastellian

Living radioactive air.

• Lifespan: 50 years
• Diet: Energy
• Habitat: Thermosphere
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed or Unknown

Diastellians are swirls of colorful, radioactive air, usually between 2’ and 10’ in length, though most try to keep to a tight, swirling bubble about 4’ in diameter. Their colors rapidly shift, though they tend to have an aura of ultraviolet light.
All diastellians move through air as if they were part of it. They can diffuse themselves to move through liquid or even porous solid matter, and they can control air pressure in a small area near their forms. They can move with complete silence in the thermosphere or above, but not below. They therefore are unfamiliar with speech and find it very awkward, though they are capable of it. If they are upset, they can shake so much the air around them becomes turbulent, but this tires them out quickly.

If they enter an area without air, they die very quickly without magical protection.

The radiation within them is constantly being released, and all diastellians have a radioactivity rating. However, elementally aligned beings or occupations are immune to their radiation. As beings of the thermosphere, they can sense and influence ionized air and ionization. They absorb ionized air, radiation from sunlight, and elemental energies for sustenance.

In the thermosphere, they live in clusters, floating freely, absorbing energy, with no knowledge of scarcity or hierarchy. They live brief lives and are guided by their elders.

Those in the imperial core are often brought there magically to be enslaved or used as sources of wind control or energy. Some are there freely in exploration or curiosity, often taken advantage of, and some are there escaped from enslavement. Most are terrified and confused in the lower atmosphere and wishing to go home, but disoriented and unable to do so. Some rare ones, however, reorient themselves and are able to live amongst the people, finding strange ways to get by.

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Exegersian

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Festucam

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Hakaku

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Hinkypunk

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Jiknjon

Elementals made of freezing air.

• Lifespan : 50 years
• Diet: Heat
• Habitat: Polar regions
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Jiknjons appear to be hominid figures made of blue or white air. They are made of freezing vapor.

Every jiknjon has the power to draw heat from anything they touch, leaving it frozen and nourishing themselves. If they do not do this every day - always from some physical, solid object - they will themselves become solid and frozen, dying.
They can float, but they do not have defenses against the high-strength winds and currents of the atmosphere, so most remain close to the ground.

If they are breathed into someone even partly, they can freeze that person and take over their body temporarily (for about an hour before they must leave).

Physical weapons cannot harm them if they are in vapor form, unless they are dispersed by them.

The average temperature inside a jiknjon is -400 degrees.

Jiknjons live in small family groups, surviving off the literal land, keeping it frozen solid for miles around as they nourish themselves. If the group gets too large for their territory, the most able will separate and either find a new group or form one. They have an egalitarian culture, not needing shelter and having no fear of food scarcity, but they are under constant threat from other living beings who blame them for the cold weather or area.

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Mahpiyatuwawa

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Nasha'at

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Shabbura

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Silaannaq

Living embodiments of climate.

Lifespan: 500 years
Diet: Elemental energies
Habitat: Anywhere
Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed or Unknown

Silaannaqs vary in form based on the climate they are born in. Their form is usually a swirling shape of matter around a core of energy that reflects the average temperatures of their region. They are roughly spherical and about 3’ in diameter.

A tropical silaannaq usually has a mixture of moisture, wind, and vegetation with a core of heat. An alpine silaannaq will be stone, snow, and wind with a core of cold. Most of those in Gyrah are cold climate elementals. Some are alpine, desert, semi-arid, humid continental, boreal, or polar.

All silaannaqs have the ability to alter their environments’ temperature at will. They can influence but not control weather, altering it slightly but only in ways that makes it more attuned to the climate they represent. For example, they can change a snowstorm to rain if they are not from a climate that has snow but does have rain, but they cannot cause snow to appear somewhere if they do not embody a place that normally has snow.

Because they rely on elemental energies to survive, they must be outside industrial or urbanized areas for at least an hour per week to feed themselves.

Silaannaqs mostly exist in small groups in the wilderness, living long lives free from the concerns of society. Their small groups are small extended families who embody the climate of the area and tend it as one might a garden, keeping it on track with its nature. However, some are either captured as slaves, decide to explore the world, or find themselves encroached upon and end up in imperial society. Those who are enslaved are used to try to control weather long-term or in strange ways with industrial magic. Those who are free are either seen as curiosities or exploited as workers of climate magic.

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Smokeling

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Ssthesseme

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Taturanu

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Vox

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Wakuda

Electromagnetism elementals.

• Lifespan: 100 years
• Diet: Energy
• Habitat: Space
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Wakudas appear to be spirals of colorful energy representing the entire range of electromagnetism.

All wakudas have some influence over the full spectrum of electromagnetism, but most specialize in one area: magnetism, electricity, infrared light, ultraviolet light, radio waves, gamma rays, x-rays, visible light, or microwaves. Some choose two to focus on, usually ones closely related within the spectrum. They have varying degrees of control, depending on how often they use their powers. They absorb energies when they interact with them.

Wakudas exist mostly in space, amongst the various streams and waves of their kind of electromagnetism, often near to the sun itself. Those who live out in space are free and often very individual, observing the universe and learning, seeking sustenance amongst the energy-rich regions, and interacting curiously with other living beings. When they meet a living being, sometimes, they try to create a lightform image that mimics them, so they might better communicate.

Those on Shem or her moons are often captured and enslaved by imperial powers to use as tools to control electromagnetism.

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Whisp

Living air.

• Lifespan: 100 years
• Diet: Energy
• Habitat: Atmosphere
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Whisps are figures of living air, nearly invisible anthropomorphic outlines in the sky. They are made of all the things that exist in air except pollution. Most are very faint in color, but have some sort of visible tinge, usually blue, grey, yellow, or white. They have no discernable facial features.

All whisps have the power to fly. Their bodies expand and contract with atmospheric pressure. They cannot live if they go above the exosphere, and even within the exosphere, they are very weak.

Whisps can sense movement of gases within a mile of themselves so long as there are not too many solid objects to distract them, meaning it mostly works higher up in the atmosphere. If the gases are within 25’ of them, they can sense their movements so long as no solid object surrounds the gases (i.e., they can’t sense gases moving within a boiler or jar, but they can sense air moving around them).
If they choose to create wind, they must sacrifice part of their bodies temporarily to do so.

They absorb radiation and sunlight as nourishment.

Whisps live in nearly invisible communities in the skies, mostly around Gyrah or on clouds, which they sleep on. Their communities are simple and egalitarian, small and tight-knit. Those in the colonies are mostly enslaved, used for air-cleansing or -moving purposes in cruel fashion. Those few free ones in the colonies are often confused for ghosts.

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