Are Sprites "wild" elementals?

[RobinMalvin]

Personally I believe the Elementals to be Nymian "High Grand Mage" SCH egi gone rouge from the Magi-war & thus Masterless.

The elementals have been said to have existed as far as before the founding of Amdapor. They've been in Black Shroud for who knows how long and they were the one who gave men the gift of white magic, and allegedly responsible to bring the Fourth Calamity. It's speculated somewhere in this forum that SCH fairies are lesser elementals, though if they can be categorized the same with the elementals of Black Shroud, is anybody's guess.

I don't recall where this is mentioned, but I seem to remember it said that sprites, plasmoids, are actually lesser voidsents but they lack sentience and only a threat unless they're threatened first. I think it's somewhere in the lore book, the scan which I can no longer find so please correct me on this.

[UAnchovy]

I don't recall where this is mentioned, but I seem to remember it said that sprites, plasmoids, are actually lesser voidsents but they lack sentience and only a threat unless they're threatened first. I think it's somewhere in the lore book, the scan which I can no longer find so please correct me on this.

I can't find that in the EE. It only says (p. 301) that plasmoids might be machina waste energy, since they've only appeared in the aftermath of Garlean attacks, and that sprites come into being in specific aetheric conditions, that they are wholly unrelated to elementals, and that they lack sentience.