Difference between Elementals and Sprites (1.0 to 2.0)

**Enkidoh** · 01-30-2015 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by Baithin

Elementals DO exist outside of the Black Shroud, don't they? They're just not as strong or as part of everyone's lives (and Hearers probably can't communicate with them as easily). I thought the sprite enemies confirmed this.

Yes, that's correct Baithin - elementals exist in all nature - they are just more potent in the Black Shroud than anywhere else for some reason that has never been really explained. And as Moose stated, there are mages that specialize in communing with the elementals in some really obscure or esoteric objects - one CNJ at the CNJ's Guild in version 1.0 stated that belatedly his specialty is the elementals in trees, but that he really wished he could communicate with the elementals in metals and rocks:

Originally Posted by version 1.0 npc Telent

"I've been listening to these damn trees for more summers you've seen. No one else can make sense of them, which I suppose is why they suffer me to stay. I always wanted to hear the elementals in steel and iron and bronze-metals, you know? Maybe earn myself a ride on one of them fancy Garlean airships. But nothing ever seems to work out the way we plan it."

During the 1.0 Gridanian storyline Papalymo also confirms this, that elementals exist everywhere in nature:

Originally Posted by version 1.0 Gridanian main scenario quest 'Souls Gone Wild'

Papalymo: "That's what I've been trying to tell you. There are elementals in all sorts of things. Rocks, rivers, flowers. They are the unifying force of this entire forest."
Yda: "Sooo, an elemental is like a gigantic, super-powerful person?"
Papalymo: "Really? Are you kidding? How have you made it this far in life? They are not to be thought of as individuals of any size, you dolt. Explain to me what part you don't understand."

**axemtitanium** · 01-31-2015 09:15 AM

So elementals are like the Japanese concept of "kami".

**Naraku_Diabolos** · 02-03-2015 01:35 AM

Kind of off topic, but elementals are a real concept in our world, too. I have a picture that I took of a waterfall on the Virginia Creeper Trail in the eastern side of the U.S. When I uploaded the photo to Facebook, the website asked me who the face was in the picture. I looked at the photo closely, and there IS a face right in the waterfall. I'll upload the picture later.

**Enkidoh** · 02-03-2015 05:22 AM

Are you sure that's not just pareidolia at work in that instance? (I can't make a judgement without seeing this image in question, but the 'Scully' in me already writes this off as a simple optical illusion).

**Naraku_Diabolos** · 02-03-2015 09:12 AM

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Are you sure that's not just pareidolia at work in that instance? (I can't make a judgement without seeing this image in question, but the 'Scully' in me already writes this off as a simple optical illusion).

There it is.

**Zohar_Lahar** · 08-11-2015 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Oh, those elementals were definitely there - but then, I did that fight as a level 25 CNJ so it was far harder (and thus, the battle took much longer, thus the elementals that appear in that fight probably only appear in the fight if you don't defeat the enemy within a certain length of time). But they definitely appeared, as seen in the screenshot below (I apologize for the poor image - one green (wind?) elemental can barely be seen in the distance on the left partially obscured by the treant's limb, while the other blue (water?) one can be quite clearly seen to the right (near the minimap - I didn't have time to minimize the GUI when I took this screenshot):

I'm disappointed that's the only time they show up. For beings that might as old as the dragons, they aren't having any story focus even in the quests of the class/job that communes with them.

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