What are "The Elementals" of the Black Shroud?

[Dikatis]

I wouldn't be asking this if it didn't sound legit, that seems like exactly something that might've been said somewhere, otherwise I'd just dismiss this out of hand. But if this is actually true I'd REALLY like some evidence, because that factors in pretty heavily to a video I'm working on.

I THINK I know what you're talking about.

When Hermes is giving us a tour of Elpis, he introduces us to the pneuma, which take the form of the lightning sprites seen throughout the setting. According to Hermes, they help maintain the controlled climate of Elpis and keep it aloft, not unlike the crystals in the Sea of Clouds and in Aglaia.

But these pneuma use the sprite models, which many people confuse for the elementals. As stated in Eorzea Encyclopedia #1, they're wholly separate and non-sentient and are NOT kin to the elementals.

Woken by the Familiar does use the elemental model and Pophyrion describes them as messengers capable of communicating through beaming information-laden aether into the thoguhts of otherss, not unlike how the elementals commune with the Seedseers via emotions and feelings. This means that at some point between the events of Elpis and the present, the elemental-prototype evolved into becoming the force of nature it is today.

[SannaR]

Yeah I think this is a case of Elementals vs elementals. In the same way as Scholar the job and a person who is called a scholar.