Posted by RotBC on February 5, 2000 at 01:41:49:
In Reply to: The preceding post aptly illustrates the reason for the tragic extinction of the creature known as the Beer Elemental.(n/t) posted by Commentator on February 4, 2000 at 22:11:59:
> > > > On the other hand, the beings they may be bargaining with could be "the last of their kind" on a world not unlike Thera...which once was rich with forests and natural..stuff. > > > Um, no. The Elemental Plane of Fire, for example, was never "rich with forests and natural stuff" nor would any elemental (other than perhaps a Beer Elemental) be the last of its kind. There aren't really any good parallels to be drawn between the Inner/Outer Planes and Thera. > > > > Elementals are easy - they are simply awakened chunks of the elements of nature. They were already there, the conjurer merely awakened them to serve to protect their realm. > > > Actually, the way we're interpreting elementals for this game, they aren't just sitting around dormantly in the Material Realms awaiting a conjurer to awaken them -- they exist independently in the Elemental Planes and can only be called in certain regions that aren't hostile to them (think of it in terms of sympathetic magic). So, good theory, but off the mark. > > > See ya, sparky.