Thread: Difference between Elementals and Sprites (1.0 to 2.0)

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."