| From: | "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl> |
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| Subject: | Re: Wood Elemental Question... |
| Date: | Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:16:33 +0100 |
> I think dreamwvr was refering to wood elementals, not wood
> spirits. I would say that the source for wood elementals
> would be any natural source, living or dead. But once wood
> has been modified by man then it's no longer considered
> "true".
>From looking through a few ED books (Companion and Magic), it seems to me
you don't need a source for summoning an elemental in that game. Also,
it's a bit difficult to actually summon them in the first place: the
Summon talent is only available to 10th circle Nethermancers and 11th
circle Elementalists (I'm no counting humans here, with their Versatility
talent) which is pretty damn high. Then there's the matter of the
elementals having very much a will of their own, and not being the
automatons they are in SR.
Now, for the wood spirit. Wood holds the balance between all the other
elements (it draws in water through its roots, which are in the earth,
etc.) and so wood elementals are sort of special. They are the weakest of
the elementals, and prefer to stay in the astral plane.
If they are summoned, they can be forced to manifest, but only into a tree
or plant. The tree will crumble as soon as the elemental inhabits it, but
the total of the elemental's physical Attributes is equal to the age of
the tree.
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