They're probably still around. It'd be incredibly hard to remove them from the lore, which is the main reason for this thread. Not only are the fairy-looking elementals still part of the lore, but even the term elemental is so engrained in Gridanian culture in reference to them that ... how could we do anything but go through the game using backwards names now that we have aspected entities, as well? Except that backwardsness makes my brain itch.