ye the elementals arent pets just a flashy look for the class/spells and a indicator of what element stance your in and i think that is the main problem trying to make it different then conjurer not linked like smn/sch and yes tinythinker youve got some good ideas the stances would change what the spells do kind of like astro but itl be all your spells instead and basicblake it could be a mix of alot of classes from alot of areas possibly
the storyline im still struggling with i know many years ago in the game lore the elementals disintegrated people who went against there law so there is that possibility of bad things happening there