Elemental Insubstantiates

Elementals without solid forms.

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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.

PRO 8 ATH 9 STR 10 AWA 14 WIL 8 PRS 7 STH 9

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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.

PRO 8 ATH 10 STR 8 AWA 8 WIL 8 PRS 7 STH 9

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Vox

Living sound.

• Lifespan : 200 years

• Diet: Echoes

• Habitat: Canyons and caverns

• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Living sound, vibrations, only visible when interacting with visible matter; voxes take up about the same volume of space as an average human. They can control their shape, insofar as they have one, to some degree if they wish to, often forming anthropomorphic forms by drawing the vibrating air together. Usually, however, they are amorphous, conscious vibrations in the air.

Voxes are living sound. They build size and volume by absorbing other sounds that echo within the areas they dwell - they can only consume echoes, not original sounds. Many sounds echo in ways that others cannot perceive, a bird’s trill echoing off a branch infinitesimally or the click of a bug’s foot against a leaf on the forest floor nearly silently bouncing off the crack in the leaf. Voxes can absorb these if they can perceive them, which they can as living sound. It takes thousands of these to make the vox grow.

Any sound a vox produces will echo as well, and they can consume these echoes. But in order for this to be worth it, the echo must be more substantial than the original sound, which is extremely rare. Therefore, voxes find places that amplify sound to dwell in - usually echo canyons, caves, and special buildings.

If a vox fills solid matter with their vibrations, they may possess and shape it, sometimes using it as a surrogate body if need be. This lasts as long as they wish or until the material is vibrated to pieces.

Voxes can control the sounds generated by other things, as long as the sounds are either unaligned or aetherial (celestial, infernal, and fey sounds are much more difficult to influence). Some sounds that may seem mundane - a person singing a beautiful song, a story being told, a command being given - are actually aligned - beautiful song may be celestial, stories may be fey, commands may be infernal. Context matters, including the purpose and source of the sound.

To a vox, sound is as solid as stone is to a human. Their control of it is “manual” in that they do so by bodily interacting with it, their living sound touching it and moving it by wrapping around it. If they choose to consume it, they surround it entirely and absorb it. If they choose to control it, they handle it and alter it by altering its shape and speed (pitch and rhythm, frequency and volume, amplitude and intensity).

Most voxes in the region dwell in the wilderness in their own small communities or embedded with native nations. Those who are in the actual colonies are usually enslaved and captured in some kind of magical device.

PRO 8 ATH 10 STR 10 AWA 8 Hearing 14 WIL 8 PRS 9 STH 7

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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.

PRO 8 ATH 10 STR 10 AWA 14 WIL 9 PRS 7 STH 7