"You see a large black glob of grossness slowly undulating in the corner. It doesn't seem to have noticed you yet." "Shit. It's a black pudding." "Roll a knowledge planes check" "Planes? Okayyy..." *dice sounds* "19 plus 6 is... 25." "You notice a silvery rainbow swirl on the ooze. Like oil on water. You know this is no black pudding, this is an Ooze Elemental!" "We went over this! No homebrew!" "B-b-but I saw it on the Mighty Glue Stick!" *chair shuffling sounds* "in that case, proceed."
"The existence of the gods is true and absolute. But there are those higher. Those who created the creators of the gods. They're a bunch of nerds gathered around a table."-The last words said by an ancient near-god before committing suicide.
Elementals are perfect fantasy creatures! They are gorgeous to look at, players can understand them without much explanation, they can have fun game mechanics, and they add a level of whimsy and danger that few monsters can match.
AJ Pickett I could imagine a befriended Wind elemental at your back boosting your pace of travel or providing a bubble to breathe underwater. A friendly fire elemental could provide much needed light and warmth, etc etc. Elementals strike me as a springboard for the imagination seeing as they are sentient forces of nature.
I love elementals and elemental "kin". Bravo, sir, another good video. Using elementals as power sources, bound into items and such has long been a great trope. (A wizard named Howl had this walking house powered by an elemental...)
Where does the food created by a "create food and water" come from? It is a conjuration spell. Is there a plane of gruel somewhere? Is there someone somewhere making gruel eternally? Is some giants lunch constantly getting stolen? I have to know.
Since it's a divine spell, I assume it's literal 'mana from heavan', being made out of divine positive energy sent from the upper planes. Or, there's a demiplane of gruel floating around in the Shadowfell, occasionally bumping into Ravenloft.
@@AJPickett Then why is it bland gruel? If you were going to manifest divine food you are thinking of into physical matter, wouldn't it be good food? Lasagna? A casserole? Surely, no self respecting caster would purposefully manifest vitamin enriched saw dust and water. The spell either implicates deities that can't be bothered with a decent meal, or that there is a plane of gruel that you can call matter from. Both of these are terrifying in my opinion.
@@jsizzlesaurusrex It's not gruel, it is containers of Oatmeal. Bland, spoils within 24 hours, can be fed to most humanoids and their steeds. *edit: oh right, Oatmeal IS gruel.*
I am thinking of making a fire gensai that instead of being their normal firey personality they have a small compainion fire elemental that reflects their mood and is bound to them.
I remember running a 3.5 game where my players were at sea and I wanted to throw something different at them so I made a undead water t-rex elemental. And boy they had a hell of a time defeating it and they loved that session and loved the monster I made.
This is going to be a lot so just answer any and all that you feel like. I will compleatly understand if you skip a lot of this. Also sorry in advance for horrendous spelling, or if you have already covered this, you have a lot of videos and I am still going through the back catalog. 1.) So how could one get to an alternate timeline (probably spawning exponentially more by doing so), can you do it with a wish or a divine intervention? 2.) Can a time elemental change the timeline, and if so can you get it, or something else with that ability, to alter it, or is their a rule about using such things to effect events in the lives of non time travelers to maintain some form of consistency, or something? 3.) Are powerful creatures like gods primordials, slad lords, arch fey, arch devils, daemon princes etc. immune to changes in the time line? 4.) So the elemental planes as described in the 5e dmg are the "closer" ends to the prime, the planescape versions are "deeper" and only elementals can travel beyond that. Maybe the elemental chaos is where they all meet, and the feywild and the shadowfell have the positive and negative quasielemental plains respectively, as oposed to the main four and the paraelementals. I don't know. Is that about right? 5.) So daemons were elementals (or at least similar) when they originally came here, but are now outsiders, fiends specifically, thou they still retain a few traits? 6.) Is the standard and/or best method for removing demonic corruption just to tear it all down, destroy the pieces, and use the infinite resources of the elemental planes to start over and build everything from scratch? Also, would the primordials get corrupted, or is permanent damage only through prolonged exposure to the abyss or the daemons themselves, so if they kill them quickly its all good. 7.) How did the abyss go from the inner to the outer planes 8.) Is there a known, or even fixed, number of arcomentals? 9.) Do you think WoTC will bring back the full roster of inner planes and give rules for the old versions in addition to the relatively mild ones we have now, or are we going to need to rely on the old planescape books (if the latter, do you know any good conversions)? 10.) Do you know how elementals are created? 11.) If larger elementals are smaller ones fused together, why do all elementals not do this whenever they meet (or do I have that wrong)? Is it a matter of whether they want to at the time? 12.) Can someone become a primordial by (first, if they are not already a elemental, fusing with one to become a geni. Then) fusing with more and more elementals, or is that not how it works? 13.) Are necromentals the elementals of the negative energy and quasi-elemental planes or do they have their own elementals like the ones in the positive energy plane? 14.) If all matter is made of various elements, could you fuse elementals together until you have a soulless humanoid elemental, or some other normal creature or object? 15.) Are there unraveler primortianls? 16.) Are genasi also formed when mortal creatures spend multiple genorations on the inner/ethereal plane(s) like planer creatures on the outer/astral plane(s)? 17.) can someone be a planer elemental, geni, or genasi, or is it that you are either one, the other, or niether? 18.) I think the elements just separated form the positive energy plane like light through a prism. Those elements in a less concentrated form filled the ethereal plane with the ethereal mist and probably the phlogiston where it intersects the astral plane. Thats just my guess though.
1.) Any spell that is capable of taking a person to another plane of existence is powerful enough to jump them to a parallel dimension, the tricky part is navigating to exactly the right one, and involves very difficult calculations requiring very high intelligence. 2.) Time elementals can transport other entities through time at great cost to themselves, they can also stop time in a local zone for a short while, but they must be forced to do so, they have no natural inclination to interact with the timeline of any particular dimension, they are devoid of passion and empathy. 3.) No. 4.) i0.wp.com/www.lostkingdom.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/the_planescape_multiverse_by_zen79.jpg 5.) Demons are alien entities without physical form that pushed their way through from the Far Realm, they manifest by creating corrupt, vile versions of elemental forms. 6.) Yes and Yes. 7.) The entrance to the Abyss is from the center of the Elemental planes, from there it has burrowed through the multiverse and can spread to just about anywhere. All who arrive in the abyss will typically arrive in a random location. 8.) As far as anyone knows, yes. 9.) Why reinvent a perfectly functional wheel? In this case, the great cosmic wheel. 10.) I have a pretty good guess. 11.) Fusing together doesn't mean they are eaten up and destroyed as individual beings, they just become part of a larger entity, much like we are a multicellular organism, but for them, the element of their home is their true body, when there is enough of it to go around, they may disperse and multiply into it again. It is not normal for Elementals to have a very rigid sense of where they end and other elementals begin, in that respect, they are very alien to us. 12.) There are as many origins to the Primordials as there are primordials, it is an incredibly broad category of very powerful forms of life. 13.) They are elementals who have become undead. 14.) Never say never in Alchemy, only "Duck!" and "Run!". 15.) Unknown, it seems like Atropus was something like that, a being of pure destruction. 16.) They can do, there are beings who are like that who are not Genasi though, I mention them in my old video on Planar Races. 17.) The names define what they are, if they are not any one of those things, then they are something new, with a different name. 18.) It's anybodies guess,
@@AJPickett 5.) So even though daemons now use souls to make more daemons other outsiders do, they physically have more in common with elementals, and of cores strange physics alien and hostile to the multiverse like the far realm, and are thus more of a category in itself. 7.) Is the entire abyss just on both the inner and outer planes at the same time (rather than half on one half on the other), almost forming a twisted transitive plane? Or is it just that all of the outer planes corrupted by the abyss drift over there by the nature of the great wheel and alignment, and since the original entrance is in the middle of the elemental planes (probably having its own version of a blood war with elementals trying to destroy it) the abyss was kind enough to give daemons and would be intruders a new front door in the "first" layer of the abyss (The plains of infinite portals). Also do you arrive on a random plane of the abyss if you planeshift, I thought that the "first" layer was supposed to be a sort of nexus up the abyss. P.s. Is there a known way to be in the abyss, or around daemons, for extended periods of time without being corrupted, and what exactly happens when one is?
My current Elf Wizard is 1 level away from 5th level spells. Conjure Elemental and Wall of Force are going to be my spell picks. I will get planar binding Eventually but seeing as that has a Expensive material cost i won't be casting it anytime soon.
I really hope this series gets a continuation. I am doing a campaign with a character with ties to elementals and giants and youre pretty helpful so far lol. Maybe lore on the elemental chaos?
I had an idea for a magical item. I call it "The bottled blade". It's a bottle with water in it. The water is actually a water elemental. When in combat, the water will spill out of the bottle and freeze, making a sharp blade of ice, with the bottle itself acting like a handle.
thats a badass weapon, but why stop at ice elementals have a full spectrum of blades available, not together in one bottle of course (unless you are making elemental grenades) an elemental isnt necessarily bound by our laws of physics.
hell why not multiple facets of weapons to choose from where the "bottle" segments to form a staff or a battle axe, or have a string attached to both ends that when snagged it forms into a bow that could need ammo, or just manifest with either a connected ring that makes arrows out of other elements, or the bow makes force arrows; so much potential with your idea, that I'm totes stealing for my campaign
This was a great video, very informative and it gives me ideas for my current game for if I wish to add an elemental into it. Looking forward to the rest.
This is great info, thanks. I’ve got a Genasi with Fire Elemental heritage in my game, and I’m still trying to tie that together properly for when they inevitably head for the city of Brass.
I'm pretty sure functioning pure elemental planes are back as of 5E, judging by the DM's guide, various 5E maps and other materials. Which is just as well to me, the elemental chaos idea seems to have been one of those major canon foibles of 4E/Spellplague/etc storylines. I said all that to say this, I largely function as a DM as if the 2-3E books and materials on these locations are my reference its just a century and a half later DR.
I always assumed that if you were a spell caster of an elemental mastery akin to the elemental you were summoning that it would automatically be friendly towards you. Is there no way to truly gain the respect of an elemental short of changing subtype, learning their language or joining the Silver Strike Guild(Dragon Mag. 307)? I assumed that an Air Genasi Wind Walker Druid (Dragon Mag. 311) would be okay in an Air elemental's book, right?
Yes, air elementals would be much more friendly to an Air Genasi, though still not at all happy about being dragged into the Prime Material plane. "How Rude!".
Man im gonna miss these…. In a world that gives you war, strife and pestilence IRL to listen to daily, I needed these cupcakes of fantasy escape to look forward to. God, please give anti-biotic resistant tuberculosis to all the WotC execs… thanks god.
I've been working on some lore for the Archomentals, the Evil Elemental Princes/Princesses from Princes of the Apocalypse. I was working on coming up with some reasoning for Drown to have come into existence by the will of the Archomentals, and I was looking at Ben Hadar, the Good Prince of Water who seemingly chooses not to fight Olhydra, his Evil Water counterpart, but instead fights primarily with Bwimb/Bwimb II (daughter of Bwimb). Well, that got me looking into Bwimb because how can you not look into the Evil Elemental Prince of Ooze, and came up with the idea that the beings who would become Bwimb and Ben Hadar could have come from a former incarnation of the universe, having retained some semblance of their mind, but incarnating in the elemental chaos and reforming themselves from the elements. He who would be Ben Hadar retained much of his mind and was able to create a new form that could contain his essence properly. The one who would be Bwimb, however, found the parameters of this universe to be disagreeable to incorporation. As such, his essence dispersed throughout a wide region of elemental ooze, and much of his consciousness was torn apart and lost to the chaos. What remained, however, was able to fester and over eons coalesce into a cancerous mass. A different kind of ooze, which contained all that was left of his insane, obliterated mind. Without conscious intent, the ooze reflexively felt the presence of the divine gateway, and the mass then excreted a layer of slime and ripped itself free of the remnant which would come to be known as Bwimb. It passed into the Fugue Plane and leaked through a crack left by demons when raiding the Fugue for souls, landing itself in the 222nd Layer of the Abyss, Shedaklah. The being festered ever-more in this place of rot and evil, and came to know itself as The Faceless Lord, Juiblex, Demon Lord of Oozes and Slimes. The being who would become Ben Hadar watched this natural process occur and recognized that he, too, could benefit from segregating a piece of his essence into a pseudo-soul and backdooring his way into the divine pathway. He was able to gather the most vital pieces of his consciousness into one mass, but couldn't stomach disembowling himself the way he saw Bwimb do it. Instead, he enlisted the assistance of another powerful water elemental, Olhydra, and offered her the bargain that she could take over as Evil Elemental Princess of Water if she created a tool capable of removing what he suggested was a dangerous growth. She created Drown, testing it on herself by scraping a spark of her essence off (which then was unknowingly absorbed into the tool), and brought it forward. She pierced the point indicated, and pried free the mass of water and thought, sending it on a very similar path to Juiblex. This elemental pseudo-soul, however, found its way to the 89th Level of the Abyss, the Shadowsea, and remade himself amongst those evil waters as The Prince of the Darkened Depths, Dagon, Demon Lord of the Sea and Sea Monsters. Once again, his remnant remained in the Elemental Planes and kept to his corner of the Plane of Water. He never contended with Olhydra's rule, but he did find himself butting heads quite regularly with his fellow remnant, Bwimb (and eventually after Bwimb's murder, Bwimb II).
Yo AJ, I was looking through my AD&D Monster Manual II and saw the part about Demodands. It seemed interesting even if the lore is kind of retconned. Is there enough supplemental info in magazines or other sources to do a video on them?
Dang it AJ! You made me think about time travel! I’ll come back in a few weeks when my brain stops hurting... (Mental note: NEVER let the PCs time travel...) ...although that would make for an EPIC campaign setting... ...”hey guys, remember those demigod-like figures that saved you at first level?”... ...this is going to take a lot of planning... ...Curse you AJ! You magnificent evil genius! ;D
Hey AJ have you done a video on the hellfire wyrm yet I've been looking in you dragon playlist but I don't know if it's there. It's doing in the 3.5 monster Manuel volume 2
A being from the 3rd dimension named Gygax created the D&D multiverse. Throughout time many other beings from this dimension changed the multiverse and its become what we know today.
What do you think about the idea that the Fey are just life elementals? Not mortals lifeforms--which are the intersection of elements from every plane of existence--but spiritual beings that pass between and inhabit lifeforms of any given type. They draw power from, associate with, and mimic these lifeforms. Able to craft bodies for themselves that resemble their favorite combination of phenotypes and psychologies from the creatures they inhabit. I think it's a tidy explanation, but I don't know how it intersects with established lore.
@@scottleneau6221 Elementals don't need to eat, although they can take on forms that can ingest food. Most of them inhabit their element, but emotions don't have a physical form: thus the occasional label of "quasi-elemental" for creatures like the fey, or modrons (time elementals).
Fey creatures have souls, they would be closer to a Genie, in a physical living body like a Janni. A mortal soul infused with the magic of the Fey realm.
I will cover the elementals in the Core monster manual first, there are already the Genies and such in the playlist, I will return to the series later, once the monster manual is complete
I remember when I played as a medium storm elemental named siarr. Who was bound away from his home plane until he could find a mysterious relic that was stolen from the temple alter that conjured him.
Playing Curse of Strahd as a Gloomstalker Ranger, which has Summon Elemental as a spell. If I summoned a water elemental could I somehow merge it with holy water to attack Strahd?
Two questions: 1)Do you know if there's an in-universe term for the garden variet elementals conjured by the summon elemental spell, to differentiate them from genies and mephits and whatnot? 2) Have you encountered any lore elaborating on how elementals procreate? because in BG3 you can find a mud mephit and a summoning-type earth elemental that're in a happy marriage together, and I was just wondering what if any retcons this might imply.
Quick two questions: Is it possible for genies to generate a deity given that they have mortal souls? If different elementals vary in power/size is it possible for genies to varry in the same way, as to say, to be generated with disgusting amounts of power - as a genie?
AJ Pickett Genies hate being trapped in lamps, genies fear being trapped in lamps, genies dispise being trapped in lamps. A god of the djinn could remedy these violations. Genies are too proud to ask for help from each other when bound, especially given the mocking they would... "rightfully deserve to endure, for lowering themselves to such charity from within impotance." But, if genies cannot beg, they can pray, not to a lower being such as a mere ordinary god, but to a rite. A document of self delivery. An almighty made "manifesto" 😵🧞♀️🧞♂️
One of my favorite bits of lore from 3.5 came from the book Tome of magic. It points out that the true names of elementals while they do apply to the elementals don't actually exercise any control or influence over them. The life force of an elemental is simply too mercurial to be bound even to its own identity.
What would Time Elemental Genasi be like? What bonuses would they have? What personalities would they lean towards? This is something that would be a super interesting theory craft especially since I am also a huge fan of Dotcor Who!
I would really not give them too much in the way of stats as how do you give stats to time? Attacks would probably look more like entropy attacks (disintegrate spell)/aging/level drain.
Interesting 🤔 ya I was thinking stuff like bonus to initiative and ac because they see things coming. Maybe time stop divination things. Disintegration makes sense too if they rapidly age the target.
In one of my campaigns, I created a Radiant Genie that claimed to be a "sun demon". I based it upon an Efreet. It was served by Radiant Elementals. Those creatures did not exist in canon back then, do they now?
@@AJPickett So the answer is "no, but I can find it" D^mn AJ! You are awesome. The Radiant Genie I created was Lawful (neutral) evil and mostly based upon the Efreeti. They are arrogant but life loving, almost like the positive spin on movie mobsters. The Radiant Elementals were based upon Fire Elementals but needing sunlight or elemental radiance to summon.
@@AJPickett Oh, I also have a playable race that is based upon having a Radiant Genie parent... I assume there is modern lore for that too? ;) I mean, a being infused with positively charged fire element (Radiance), that would be awesome... unless they don't exist for OP reasons.
Hmm entropic elementals. Metal is a element in chinese myth and alchemy so elementals based on metals? what of Minerals? elementals of pure posetive energy. could there be plant elementals? Elementals made from contradicting elements? So much stuff can be made
How to make a Genie. 1) Open a portal to an Elemental Plane 2) Kill someone inside the plane 3) The soul of the mortal person will be reincarnated as a Genie of the type depending on the plane they died in.
What are names of other videos from this series. I found a playlist called elementals but it was not it. plz, help my out. I am running a high lvl compain in inner planes and this lore is gold. Thanx for this video you are amazing.❤
Yaldabaoth Not necessarily. Fire Genasi can swim without dying. They aren’t physically made out of an element, they’re just fueled by a particular type of elemental energy that gives them their unique abilities and physical appearances.
This is good information action for me, because in my current came I have suddenly befriended a fire element child Completely op for a level 4 character
Random question(s, depending on how you break this down): Would it be theoretically possible for an elemental to gain a soul, and possibly as a result become a genie, from a wish spell (for example, if a mortal for whatever reason chose to do so as a reward to one which was brought to the prime material -- perhaps to animate a construct, or as part of a more ordinary summon, or in similar circumstances a deity), and would that maintain whatever passed for a personality the elemental had, or just be overwritten as a new being altogether?
Sorry for posting this late response, but I figure it's an important bit of information, mixed maybe a little with some theorycrafting. While it is true non-genie Elementals lack a soul, they *are* often described as a spirit (or 'elemental spirit'), and thus technically do not just cease existing when they are destroyed, though instead are like elves and orcs *used* to be. Theoretically, a rod of resurrection, as well as the reincarnation spell if tried on one, *may* be able to resurrect one, as that was how you got your elves, orcs and half-orcs (oh yeah. Half elves had souls, but half orcs didn't, in the earliest of days) back to life, when D&D actually even cared about the difference between souls and spirits beyond lore (1st and 2nd editions). Source on the spirit thing: they are sentient beings which have free will, are capable of worshipping gods, and lack souls. This also goes part way to explaining necromentals a bit. Translation: it is likely (in my mind, at least) they fit into that category, but I can't find a real "clincher" on that one. Sorry if I didn't state my case overly well, though, as it is currently four in the morning and my sleep schedule is out-of-wack.
Aww come on AJ. just sweeping the Primal Elemental under the rug with a simple "strongest you can find in the Prime Material"? You need to really sell the fact that these are literal walking mountains or conflagrations of fire so large and hot that even red dragons dare not come near... Primal elementals are like the gods of other lesser elementals with the Primordial being the gods of them. Still, good video. Nice and concise introduction.
Elementals have no biological need for gender. When they accumulate enough other elementals and their accumulated spirit, they become hyper intelligent.
I have an idea for a higher plane,The Prison Plane Of Tossc, created from the bodies of elemental primordial whose ruler is a being of of their will given life. Nagol The Chainer Of Gods who was given an item of great power from one of the over Gods ,Nagols Circlet Of Imprisonment. But am having trouble scrubbing details to make it fit and make sense. Any suggestions? Does it sound interesting?. Its home to The Belly Of The Sun. One of the greatest forges in the multiverse. Said to have been blessed by the Wind Dukes themselves. Also its home to the Primordial Prison. Designed to be the first cage of The Chained Oblivion. I'm thinking may a Psionic Djin Demigod. Warlock Psionic Sorcerer.
Im thinking ties to nethiril. Maybe even the possibility to revive one of the great floating fortresses with the power from the plane of Tossc. With The Eye Of Tossc opening after an age when the blood of Nagol enters the ancient mythil.
what would you do if a player wanted to true polymorph into a time elemental? what would happen other than them likely turning into an npc? ooohoohoo i'm curious :P
"You see a large black glob of grossness slowly undulating in the corner. It doesn't seem to have noticed you yet."
"Shit. It's a black pudding."
"Roll a knowledge planes check"
"Planes? Okayyy..." *dice sounds* "19 plus 6 is... 25."
"You notice a silvery rainbow swirl on the ooze. Like oil on water. You know this is no black pudding, this is an Ooze Elemental!"
"We went over this! No homebrew!"
"B-b-but I saw it on the Mighty Glue Stick!"
*chair shuffling sounds* "in that case, proceed."
"The existence of the gods is true and absolute. But there are those higher. Those who created the creators of the gods. They're a bunch of nerds gathered around a table."-The last words said by an ancient near-god before committing suicide.
here's a good way to mess with your players:
"What about your other character?"
"What other character?"
"Oh that's right, time elemental. Nevermind."
AJ I just thought I'd let you know, I think you're the Dungeon Master of Dungeon Masters
I am so excited for an elemental series!!!!
Elementals are perfect fantasy creatures! They are gorgeous to look at, players can understand them without much explanation, they can have fun game mechanics, and they add a level of whimsy and danger that few monsters can match.
Whimsical?
AJ Pickett I could imagine a befriended Wind elemental at your back boosting your pace of travel or providing a bubble to breathe underwater. A friendly fire elemental could provide much needed light and warmth, etc etc. Elementals strike me as a springboard for the imagination seeing as they are sentient forces of nature.
It's all fun and games until someone summons a Taint Elemental.
Then it becomes a party.
I love elementals and elemental "kin". Bravo, sir, another good video.
Using elementals as power sources, bound into items and such has long been a great trope. (A wizard named Howl had this walking house powered by an elemental...)
I'm really looking forward to learning about elementals as a whole and their inner workings.
Wait, beings traveling between worlds and altering their history and rules? That sounds like a perfect in-world explanation for the editions of D&D.
Going ele-Mental over these videos, thanks man!
Where does the food created by a "create food and water" come from? It is a conjuration spell. Is there a plane of gruel somewhere? Is there someone somewhere making gruel eternally? Is some giants lunch constantly getting stolen? I have to know.
Since it's a divine spell, I assume it's literal 'mana from heavan', being made out of divine positive energy sent from the upper planes.
Or, there's a demiplane of gruel floating around in the Shadowfell, occasionally bumping into Ravenloft.
It is a manifestation of thought into physical matter, so, of divine/Astral origin.
I don’t know, I kind of like the idea of an elemental plane of gruel. Might have to work that in.
@@AJPickett Then why is it bland gruel? If you were going to manifest divine food you are thinking of into physical matter, wouldn't it be good food? Lasagna? A casserole? Surely, no self respecting caster would purposefully manifest vitamin enriched saw dust and water. The spell either implicates deities that can't be bothered with a decent meal, or that there is a plane of gruel that you can call matter from. Both of these are terrifying in my opinion.
@@jsizzlesaurusrex It's not gruel, it is containers of Oatmeal. Bland, spoils within 24 hours, can be fed to most humanoids and their steeds. *edit: oh right, Oatmeal IS gruel.*
Great video. Can't wait to hear more on elementals.
DESTRUCTION ORGY!! - flips table with gust of wind -
Oh thank goodness. Novel material. Thanks AJ!
I am thinking of making a fire gensai that instead of being their normal firey personality they have a small compainion fire elemental that reflects their mood and is bound to them.
Great content love learning about the characters and monsters of D&D
I remember running a 3.5 game where my players were at sea and I wanted to throw something different at them so I made a undead water t-rex elemental. And boy they had a hell of a time defeating it and they loved that session and loved the monster I made.
Oh yeah I can't wait for this series!!!!
I am so hype for the genasi video. My all time favorite character i have ever played is an air genasi monk.
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Omg. You've always got me covered. Thanks. :)
This is going to be a lot so just answer any and all that you feel like. I will compleatly understand if you skip a lot of this. Also sorry in advance for horrendous spelling, or if you have already covered this, you have a lot of videos and I am still going through the back catalog.
1.) So how could one get to an alternate timeline (probably spawning exponentially more by doing so), can you do it with a wish or a divine intervention?
2.) Can a time elemental change the timeline, and if so can you get it, or something else with that ability, to alter it, or is their a rule about using such things to effect events in the lives of non time travelers to maintain some form of consistency, or something?
3.) Are powerful creatures like gods primordials, slad lords, arch fey, arch devils, daemon princes etc. immune to changes in the time line?
4.) So the elemental planes as described in the 5e dmg are the "closer" ends to the prime, the planescape versions are "deeper" and only elementals can travel beyond that. Maybe the elemental chaos is where they all meet, and the feywild and the shadowfell have the positive and negative quasielemental plains respectively, as oposed to the main four and the paraelementals. I don't know. Is that about right?
5.) So daemons were elementals (or at least similar) when they originally came here, but are now outsiders, fiends specifically, thou they still retain a few traits?
6.) Is the standard and/or best method for removing demonic corruption just to tear it all down, destroy the pieces, and use the infinite resources of the elemental planes to start over and build everything from scratch? Also, would the primordials get corrupted, or is permanent damage only through prolonged exposure to the abyss or the daemons themselves, so if they kill them quickly its all good.
7.) How did the abyss go from the inner to the outer planes
8.) Is there a known, or even fixed, number of arcomentals?
9.) Do you think WoTC will bring back the full roster of inner planes and give rules for the old versions in addition to the relatively mild ones we have now, or are we going to need to rely on the old planescape books (if the latter, do you know any good conversions)?
10.) Do you know how elementals are created?
11.) If larger elementals are smaller ones fused together, why do all elementals not do this whenever they meet (or do I have that wrong)? Is it a matter of whether they want to at the time?
12.) Can someone become a primordial by (first, if they are not already a elemental, fusing with one to become a geni. Then) fusing with more and more elementals, or is that not how it works?
13.) Are necromentals the elementals of the negative energy and quasi-elemental planes or do they have their own elementals like the ones in the positive energy plane?
14.) If all matter is made of various elements, could you fuse elementals together until you have a soulless humanoid elemental, or some other normal creature or object?
15.) Are there unraveler primortianls?
16.) Are genasi also formed when mortal creatures spend multiple genorations on the inner/ethereal plane(s) like planer creatures on the outer/astral plane(s)?
17.) can someone be a planer elemental, geni, or genasi, or is it that you are either one, the other, or niether?
18.) I think the elements just separated form the positive energy plane like light through a prism. Those elements in a less concentrated form filled the ethereal plane with the ethereal mist and probably the phlogiston where it intersects the astral plane. Thats just my guess though.
1.) Any spell that is capable of taking a person to another plane of existence is powerful enough to jump them to a parallel dimension, the tricky part is navigating to exactly the right one, and involves very difficult calculations requiring very high intelligence.
2.) Time elementals can transport other entities through time at great cost to themselves, they can also stop time in a local zone for a short while, but they must be forced to do so, they have no natural inclination to interact with the timeline of any particular dimension, they are devoid of passion and empathy.
3.) No.
4.) i0.wp.com/www.lostkingdom.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/the_planescape_multiverse_by_zen79.jpg
5.) Demons are alien entities without physical form that pushed their way through from the Far Realm, they manifest by creating corrupt, vile versions of elemental forms.
6.) Yes and Yes.
7.) The entrance to the Abyss is from the center of the Elemental planes, from there it has burrowed through the multiverse and can spread to just about anywhere. All who arrive in the abyss will typically arrive in a random location.
8.) As far as anyone knows, yes.
9.) Why reinvent a perfectly functional wheel? In this case, the great cosmic wheel.
10.) I have a pretty good guess.
11.) Fusing together doesn't mean they are eaten up and destroyed as individual beings, they just become part of a larger entity, much like we are a multicellular organism, but for them, the element of their home is their true body, when there is enough of it to go around, they may disperse and multiply into it again. It is not normal for Elementals to have a very rigid sense of where they end and other elementals begin, in that respect, they are very alien to us.
12.) There are as many origins to the Primordials as there are primordials, it is an incredibly broad category of very powerful forms of life.
13.) They are elementals who have become undead.
14.) Never say never in Alchemy, only "Duck!" and "Run!".
15.) Unknown, it seems like Atropus was something like that, a being of pure destruction.
16.) They can do, there are beings who are like that who are not Genasi though, I mention them in my old video on Planar Races.
17.) The names define what they are, if they are not any one of those things, then they are something new, with a different name.
18.) It's anybodies guess,
@@AJPickett 5.) So even though daemons now use souls to make more daemons other outsiders do, they physically have more in common with elementals, and of cores strange physics alien and hostile to the multiverse like the far realm, and are thus more of a category in itself.
7.) Is the entire abyss just on both the inner and outer planes at the same time (rather than half on one half on the other), almost forming a twisted transitive plane? Or is it just that all of the outer planes corrupted by the abyss drift over there by the nature of the great wheel and alignment, and since the original entrance is in the middle of the elemental planes (probably having its own version of a blood war with elementals trying to destroy it) the abyss was kind enough to give daemons and would be intruders a new front door in the "first" layer of the abyss (The plains of infinite portals). Also do you arrive on a random plane of the abyss if you planeshift, I thought that the "first" layer was supposed to be a sort of nexus up the abyss.
P.s. Is there a known way to be in the abyss, or around daemons, for extended periods of time without being corrupted, and what exactly happens when one is?
I’d absolutely love to see a video detailing the four mother and father elementals of wind, earth, fire, and water!
mother and father?
Excellent work Kiwi! Loved the artwork,I'm looking forward to the next elemental video! Hope you start with "Fire"
My current Elf Wizard is 1 level away from 5th level spells. Conjure Elemental and Wall of Force are going to be my spell picks. I will get planar binding Eventually but seeing as that has a Expensive material cost i won't be casting it anytime soon.
A great video, thank you for creating & sharing
I really hope this series gets a continuation. I am doing a campaign with a character with ties to elementals and giants and youre pretty helpful so far lol.
Maybe lore on the elemental chaos?
I had an idea for a magical item. I call it "The bottled blade".
It's a bottle with water in it. The water is actually a water elemental. When in combat, the water will spill out of the bottle and freeze, making a sharp blade of ice, with the bottle itself acting like a handle.
thats a badass weapon, but why stop at ice elementals have a full spectrum of blades available, not together in one bottle of course (unless you are making elemental grenades) an elemental isnt necessarily bound by our laws of physics.
hell why not multiple facets of weapons to choose from where the "bottle" segments to form a staff or a battle axe, or have a string attached to both ends that when snagged it forms into a bow that could need ammo, or just manifest with either a connected ring that makes arrows out of other elements, or the bow makes force arrows; so much potential with your idea, that I'm totes stealing for my campaign
They had this in 3.5, I had a thief who stole a few in a campaign years ago.
@@puckshriekstheim6114 what were these things called so I can mimic this art
This was a great video, very informative and it gives me ideas for my current game for if I wish to add an elemental into it. Looking forward to the rest.
Nice work AJ! I look forward to the new series!
Good video AJ
Elementals. One of those creature types that has interested me.
I am really excited for this series since my campaign revolves around elementals. I was lost in the lore and backgrounds of the elementals.
This sparks so many ideas for me, thanks for the vid!
Summoning a time elemental while under the effect of Time Stop could be fun.
Yeah, that could be interesting.
AJ Pickett. Best tour guide.
This is great info, thanks. I’ve got a Genasi with Fire Elemental heritage in my game, and I’m still trying to tie that together properly for when they inevitably head for the city of Brass.
A New Madman That’s gunna be a fun one. The Effreet aren’t exactly the most friendly when it comes to non elementals.
I'm pretty sure functioning pure elemental planes are back as of 5E, judging by the DM's guide, various 5E maps and other materials. Which is just as well to me, the elemental chaos idea seems to have been one of those major canon foibles of 4E/Spellplague/etc storylines. I said all that to say this, I largely function as a DM as if the 2-3E books and materials on these locations are my reference its just a century and a half later DR.
My rule is that 4ed lore never happened.
Sooooo... elemental series? cool!!!!!!
I always assumed that if you were a spell caster of an elemental mastery akin to the elemental you were summoning that it would automatically be friendly towards you. Is there no way to truly gain the respect of an elemental short of changing subtype, learning their language or joining the Silver Strike Guild(Dragon Mag. 307)? I assumed that an Air Genasi Wind Walker Druid (Dragon Mag. 311) would be okay in an Air elemental's book, right?
Yes, air elementals would be much more friendly to an Air Genasi, though still not at all happy about being dragged into the Prime Material plane. "How Rude!".
I wonder how Elementals feel about genies, knowing the latter's creation method.
I thought this was one of your livestreams because I read the notification *REALLY* quickly.
Man im gonna miss these…. In a world that gives you war, strife and pestilence IRL to listen to daily, I needed these cupcakes of fantasy escape to look forward to. God, please give anti-biotic resistant tuberculosis to all the WotC execs… thanks god.
I've been working on some lore for the Archomentals, the Evil Elemental Princes/Princesses from Princes of the Apocalypse. I was working on coming up with some reasoning for Drown to have come into existence by the will of the Archomentals, and I was looking at Ben Hadar, the Good Prince of Water who seemingly chooses not to fight Olhydra, his Evil Water counterpart, but instead fights primarily with Bwimb/Bwimb II (daughter of Bwimb).
Well, that got me looking into Bwimb because how can you not look into the Evil Elemental Prince of Ooze, and came up with the idea that the beings who would become Bwimb and Ben Hadar could have come from a former incarnation of the universe, having retained some semblance of their mind, but incarnating in the elemental chaos and reforming themselves from the elements. He who would be Ben Hadar retained much of his mind and was able to create a new form that could contain his essence properly. The one who would be Bwimb, however, found the parameters of this universe to be disagreeable to incorporation. As such, his essence dispersed throughout a wide region of elemental ooze, and much of his consciousness was torn apart and lost to the chaos.
What remained, however, was able to fester and over eons coalesce into a cancerous mass. A different kind of ooze, which contained all that was left of his insane, obliterated mind. Without conscious intent, the ooze reflexively felt the presence of the divine gateway, and the mass then excreted a layer of slime and ripped itself free of the remnant which would come to be known as Bwimb. It passed into the Fugue Plane and leaked through a crack left by demons when raiding the Fugue for souls, landing itself in the 222nd Layer of the Abyss, Shedaklah. The being festered ever-more in this place of rot and evil, and came to know itself as The Faceless Lord, Juiblex, Demon Lord of Oozes and Slimes.
The being who would become Ben Hadar watched this natural process occur and recognized that he, too, could benefit from segregating a piece of his essence into a pseudo-soul and backdooring his way into the divine pathway. He was able to gather the most vital pieces of his consciousness into one mass, but couldn't stomach disembowling himself the way he saw Bwimb do it. Instead, he enlisted the assistance of another powerful water elemental, Olhydra, and offered her the bargain that she could take over as Evil Elemental Princess of Water if she created a tool capable of removing what he suggested was a dangerous growth.
She created Drown, testing it on herself by scraping a spark of her essence off (which then was unknowingly absorbed into the tool), and brought it forward. She pierced the point indicated, and pried free the mass of water and thought, sending it on a very similar path to Juiblex. This elemental pseudo-soul, however, found its way to the 89th Level of the Abyss, the Shadowsea, and remade himself amongst those evil waters as The Prince of the Darkened Depths, Dagon, Demon Lord of the Sea and Sea Monsters. Once again, his remnant remained in the Elemental Planes and kept to his corner of the Plane of Water. He never contended with Olhydra's rule, but he did find himself butting heads quite regularly with his fellow remnant, Bwimb (and eventually after Bwimb's murder, Bwimb II).
5:06 imagine a quest for player characters to find and control the polyhedral shapes that shape the D&D multiverse 🤔
What if the reward is an in game legendary level die that you can roll in game to add the result to almost any roll you want?
Yo AJ, I was looking through my AD&D Monster Manual II and saw the part about Demodands. It seemed interesting even if the lore is kind of retconned. Is there enough supplemental info in magazines or other sources to do a video on them?
Yes, absolutely.
@@AJPickett Score.
hey Aj, i bet a video on living spells would be pretty interesting to do. always liked the idea of them
Dang it AJ! You made me think about time travel!
I’ll come back in a few weeks when my brain stops hurting...
(Mental note: NEVER let the PCs time travel...)
...although that would make for an EPIC campaign setting...
...”hey guys, remember those demigod-like figures that saved you at first level?”...
...this is going to take a lot of planning...
...Curse you AJ! You magnificent evil genius! ;D
8:00 Big Grumbar Underchasm mood right there.
" it's hard to summon a elmental " me being lv1 with Braziers of fire elmentals vibeing
Hey AJ have you done a video on the hellfire wyrm yet I've been looking in you dragon playlist but I don't know if it's there. It's doing in the 3.5 monster Manuel volume 2
Not yet.
A being from the 3rd dimension named Gygax created the D&D multiverse. Throughout time many other beings from this dimension changed the multiverse and its become what we know today.
What do you think about the idea that the Fey are just life elementals?
Not mortals lifeforms--which are the intersection of elements from every plane of existence--but spiritual beings that pass between and inhabit lifeforms of any given type. They draw power from, associate with, and mimic these lifeforms. Able to craft bodies for themselves that resemble their favorite combination of phenotypes and psychologies from the creatures they inhabit.
I think it's a tidy explanation, but I don't know how it intersects with established lore.
I tend to think along those lines, that the higher the fey power, the less corporeal it is.
My take on it is that fey are "emotion elementals"
@@tahunuva4254 So like, they feed on emotions, or inhabit emotions?
@@scottleneau6221 Elementals don't need to eat, although they can take on forms that can ingest food. Most of them inhabit their element, but emotions don't have a physical form: thus the occasional label of "quasi-elemental" for creatures like the fey, or modrons (time elementals).
Fey creatures have souls, they would be closer to a Genie, in a physical living body like a Janni. A mortal soul infused with the magic of the Fey realm.
Can you do a video on the geenies since you started the elemental planes and elementals?
I already have :)
Looking forward to this series. AJ, are you doing this series in one go? Or over time?
I will cover the elementals in the Core monster manual first, there are already the Genies and such in the playlist, I will return to the series later, once the monster manual is complete
the meta narrative makes this was my favorite by far
"We do not have stat blocks.
They only have the stats we give them."
I just hope, when the time comes for a 6th edition, that there is an official "New Dawn War" style campaign to see 5th edition out with.
7:01 I can imagine that living wave is thinking "How the hell did that get there?"
Thrulls are horrific puppets will watch that video soon as it will be twisted.
Yes pun intended.
Whatever happened to the old mythical classification for size?
I remember when I played as a medium storm elemental named siarr. Who was bound away from his home plane until he could find a mysterious relic that was stolen from the temple alter that conjured him.
Thank you.
Matthew Mercer made excellent use of a Titanic elemental
Playing Curse of Strahd as a Gloomstalker Ranger, which has Summon Elemental as a spell. If I summoned a water elemental could I somehow merge it with holy water to attack Strahd?
That would be up the the DM
I believe there is an actual type of water elemental that is made out of holy water
Two questions: 1)Do you know if there's an in-universe term for the garden variet elementals conjured by the summon elemental spell, to differentiate them from genies and mephits and whatnot?
2) Have you encountered any lore elaborating on how elementals procreate? because in BG3 you can find a mud mephit and a summoning-type earth elemental that're in a happy marriage together, and I was just wondering what if any retcons this might imply.
Quick two questions: Is it possible for genies to generate a deity given that they have mortal souls? If different elementals vary in power/size is it possible for genies to varry in the same way, as to say, to be generated with disgusting amounts of power - as a genie?
There is very little that Genies can't accomplish if they set their minds to it, but with great power comes great laziness.
AJ Pickett Genies hate being trapped in lamps, genies fear being trapped in lamps, genies dispise being trapped in lamps. A god of the djinn could remedy these violations. Genies are too proud to ask for help from each other when bound, especially given the mocking they would... "rightfully deserve to endure, for lowering themselves to such charity from within impotance." But, if genies cannot beg, they can pray, not to a lower being such as a mere ordinary god, but to a rite. A document of self delivery. An almighty made "manifesto" 😵🧞♀️🧞♂️
love the background music!
One of my favorite bits of lore from 3.5 came from the book Tome of magic. It points out that the true names of elementals while they do apply to the elementals don't actually exercise any control or influence over them. The life force of an elemental is simply too mercurial to be bound even to its own identity.
12:45 Unravelers are elementals with O.C.D.!
Kinda.
What would Time Elemental Genasi be like? What bonuses would they have? What personalities would they lean towards? This is something that would be a super interesting theory craft especially since I am also a huge fan of Dotcor Who!
I would really not give them too much in the way of stats as how do you give stats to time?
Attacks would probably look more like entropy attacks (disintegrate spell)/aging/level drain.
Interesting 🤔 ya I was thinking stuff like bonus to initiative and ac because they see things coming. Maybe time stop divination things. Disintegration makes sense too if they rapidly age the target.
In one of my campaigns, I created a Radiant Genie that claimed to be a "sun demon". I based it upon an Efreet. It was served by Radiant Elementals. Those creatures did not exist in canon back then, do they now?
I can find something that fits for you.
@@AJPickett So the answer is "no, but I can find it" D^mn AJ! You are awesome. The Radiant Genie I created was Lawful (neutral) evil and mostly based upon the Efreeti. They are arrogant but life loving, almost like the positive spin on movie mobsters. The Radiant Elementals were based upon Fire Elementals but needing sunlight or elemental radiance to summon.
@@AJPickett Oh, I also have a playable race that is based upon having a Radiant Genie parent... I assume there is modern lore for that too? ;)
I mean, a being infused with positively charged fire element (Radiance), that would be awesome... unless they don't exist for OP reasons.
bingo!! hooray new content, thanks Sir
Can anyone tell me what the scene at 12:02 is depicting? I'm prepping for Spelljammer and it looks like an epic scene for a Prologue
Hmm entropic elementals. Metal is a element in chinese myth and alchemy so elementals based on metals? what of Minerals? elementals of pure posetive energy. could there be plant elementals? Elementals made from contradicting elements? So much stuff can be made
How to make a Genie.
1) Open a portal to an Elemental Plane
2) Kill someone inside the plane
3) The soul of the mortal person will be reincarnated as a Genie of the type depending on the plane they died in.
Aj is great
I do my best.
Love the vid
Are forest/wood elementals a thing in the forgotten realms
Yes
When the crystal was cast into the elemental chaos to create the abyss was that the inner elemental planes?
Yes
Wooooooooooooo give me that nerdy stuff!!!!!
What are names of other videos from this series. I found a playlist called elementals but it was not it. plz, help my out. I am running a high lvl compain in inner planes and this lore is gold. Thanx for this video you are amazing.❤
This
We need official Quasi and Para Elemental Genasi from WoTC. A Salt or Radiant Genasi sounds badass.
Oh yeah, a salt genasi would be really afraid of rain, i guess.
Yaldabaoth Not necessarily. Fire Genasi can swim without dying. They aren’t physically made out of an element, they’re just fueled by a particular type of elemental energy that gives them their unique abilities and physical appearances.
Actually, I would really want salt genasi. They could be salty all day.
Yaldabaoth It would be a great RP opportunity.
They would be horrible to play Magic the Gathering with. First round table flipper.
Paraelemental genie would be interresting
This is good information action for me, because in my current came I have suddenly befriended a fire element child
Completely op for a level 4 character
Are there Salt or Gas elemebtals
Paraelementals, yes.
Random question(s, depending on how you break this down):
Would it be theoretically possible for an elemental to gain a soul, and possibly as a result become a genie, from a wish spell (for example, if a mortal for whatever reason chose to do so as a reward to one which was brought to the prime material -- perhaps to animate a construct, or as part of a more ordinary summon, or in similar circumstances a deity), and would that maintain whatever passed for a personality the elemental had, or just be overwritten as a new being altogether?
It becomes a new being, a Genie.
Sorry for posting this late response, but I figure it's an important bit of information, mixed maybe a little with some theorycrafting.
While it is true non-genie Elementals lack a soul, they *are* often described as a spirit (or 'elemental spirit'), and thus technically do not just cease existing when they are destroyed, though instead are like elves and orcs *used* to be. Theoretically, a rod of resurrection, as well as the reincarnation spell if tried on one, *may* be able to resurrect one, as that was how you got your elves, orcs and half-orcs (oh yeah. Half elves had souls, but half orcs didn't, in the earliest of days) back to life, when D&D actually even cared about the difference between souls and spirits beyond lore (1st and 2nd editions). Source on the spirit thing: they are sentient beings which have free will, are capable of worshipping gods, and lack souls. This also goes part way to explaining necromentals a bit.
Translation: it is likely (in my mind, at least) they fit into that category, but I can't find a real "clincher" on that one. Sorry if I didn't state my case overly well, though, as it is currently four in the morning and my sleep schedule is out-of-wack.
Aww come on AJ. just sweeping the Primal Elemental under the rug with a simple "strongest you can find in the Prime Material"? You need to really sell the fact that these are literal walking mountains or conflagrations of fire so large and hot that even red dragons dare not come near... Primal elementals are like the gods of other lesser elementals with the Primordial being the gods of them.
Still, good video. Nice and concise introduction.
Matthew Mercer made an excellent use of a primal elemental
I'm saving all the juicy descriptions for their own video.
@@AJPickett Fair enough.
So, Captain Planet was a Elemenatal or something like that
He was at least partially composed of Care Bear
All I know is that he stole Ms.Frizzle’s kids off the Magic School Bus.
@@Im-Not-a-DogDo you think the Frizz ever got parents to sign permission slips for the field trips?
Captain Planet was a Janni(Genie).
Time elementals are purely conception
They are Is irrelevant lol
Ah I have a huge question, do elementals have gender? Or do they just assume forms they want? Also, how intelligent can elementals get?
Elementals have no biological need for gender. When they accumulate enough other elementals and their accumulated spirit, they become hyper intelligent.
Revised size chart is not linking correctly
dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Revised_Size_(3.5e_Variant_Rule)
Thanks, I am attempting to fix it
Sweet thanks! And appreciate your work!
Can corrupted elemetals be used for the "vegan" creating of golems?
I don't see why not. They may need some additional enchantment to keep them in control though.
I have an idea for a higher plane,The Prison Plane Of Tossc, created from the bodies of elemental primordial whose ruler is a being of of their will given life. Nagol The Chainer Of Gods who was given an item of great power from one of the over Gods ,Nagols Circlet Of Imprisonment. But am having trouble scrubbing details to make it fit and make sense. Any suggestions? Does it sound interesting?. Its home to The Belly Of The Sun. One of the greatest forges in the multiverse. Said to have been blessed by the Wind Dukes themselves. Also its home to the Primordial Prison. Designed to be the first cage of The Chained Oblivion. I'm thinking may a Psionic Djin Demigod. Warlock Psionic Sorcerer.
Im thinking ties to nethiril. Maybe even the possibility to revive one of the great floating fortresses with the power from the plane of Tossc. With The Eye Of Tossc opening after an age when the blood of Nagol enters the ancient mythil.
what would you do if a player wanted to true polymorph into a time elemental? what would happen other than them likely turning into an npc? ooohoohoo i'm curious :P
I have no idea, it really depends on the situation.
@@AJPickett i see, but boy would that open a can of worms... Thx for the reply aj ^^
What if you true polymorphed into a time elemental, imagine what you could discover
Brb gonna design a circle pf time druid
Your link to the Revised Sized categories on the wiki is broken and leads a page that doesn't exist.
I imagine a genasi summoning an elemental with their element like a stand
how about a vampire with a time elemental as his stand?
Seamus wuz here!
what up!?!??!?!?!?!?
Elemental helped fight the eldraizi in mtg