Personality

     These spirits have a tendency to act like distorted mirrors of their summoners’ personalities, filtered through their natural propensities. Elementals typically adopt the speech pattern, habits, and behavior of the magician who summoned them. Fire Elementals typically adopt the behavior of the summoner when angry or infuriated, while Air Elementals concentrate on the person’s impulsive and lustful side. Earth Elementals focus on the cold-blooded and rational, and Water Elementals adopt the contemplative and any maudlin or melancholy aspects of the magician’s personality. This can sometimes make the creatures very difficult to deal with, and many a magician prefers to minimize their dealings with them to simple orders that require no dialogue.
     Elementals never do any favors for anybody; they must either enter into a Compact or be Bound by force. Compacts with elementals often involve “feeding” the creatures large amounts of Essence or allowing them to wander through the physical world for short periods of time -- some elementals find Earth to be a delightfully strange environment. Bound elementals usually fulfill their duties without complaint, but they often seize any opportunity to avenge their period of slavery.
     Quote: “You can't legislate common sense, but you can make it awfully expensive not to exorcise it.”

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