Insects and Energies (Naming Convention Conflict?)

[Anonymoose]

Hello, word-gods! It's Moose again. I was going to hold off asking this one for a while, but what the hay - it's been too quiet in here the last few days and maybe I'll catch one of you delightful voidsent when you need a break from putting all that 1.19 together. No pressure.

I'm a little confused with some mob names. I can't tell if there's:

• A mix-up with a naming convention,
• A wrongly assigned element,
• A single exception to what seems to be a general rule*

* That mob families share the same elemental affinity; For instance, moles all sharing earth affinity.

So, what's up with the glow-ball-fly-energy-THINGS?

Are the fireflies actually supposed to be lightning? The fact that Lightning Beetle is a fire mob is pretty goofy, but then again a Firefly being lightning would be just as bad. What's up?

This confusion extends far beyond the lowest tier. From what I can tell form trying to solve this mystery, fireflies, wisps, and plasmoids are all the same basic mob in different stages of growth. From what I can tell:

• Firefly mobs exist up to Rank 20, at which they become
• Wisps from between Ranks 20 to 40, and finally form into
• Plasmoids for Rank 40+.

Though they share virtually NO drops, they do share sets of offensive ablities. They all make use of the STELLAR FLAME ability. However, when fireflies become wisps, BLINDING BURST becomes INNERNOVA, which turns into HYPERNOVA when they turn into plasmoids. Also, across their lifespan, they slowly develop an arsenal of absorption techniques and magical spells, but suddenly at Rank 40, they switch elements.

Fireflies and wisps are both fire affinity, however plasmoids are lightning affinity. Is this on purpose?

I do understand that a hot enough flame will eventually turn into plasma, is that what's going on here? Assuming there is no error, if they are of the same mob family, does it have a name? If not, are fireflies, wisps, and plasmoids all still insects (vilekin)? Or does their evolution change their Class and/or Kingdom? The latter seems to be the case due to [item=10006103]firefly elytron[/item]s only falling off them before they go wisp.

I'm gonna light one of my campfires and hang around for a while. I'll probably reword this a bit ton as well. Forum community, feel free to (Help me out!) if you have some ideas.

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Unrelated: Mobs I Still Can't Place
Just in case you're really dying to keep looking at not-spreadsheet for a few more minutes

• Toad
• Salamander
• Elemental
• Hippogryph (Void? I'm saying void.)