Elementals, Spirits, and Daemons, oh my!

From: Andrew Dawson <asmpd_at_...>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 22:32:39 -0400


At 01:21 PM 05/22/2000 -0400, TTrotsky_at_... wrote:
> That's rather a complicated question, I'm afraid. What we used to know
>as elementals are essentially sorcerous entities, and don't work in the same
>way as fire spirits, for example. And then there's the daemons (the theist
>version of elementals - hah, bet you all thought lunes were elementals,
>didn't you?), such as the storm daemons that Storm Voices call up and which
>we all thought were really sylphs. I'm not mad keen on all this
>differentiation myself, but as the actual powers of a storm daemon and a
>sylph (for instance) aren't all that different I can certainly live with it.

Some questions:

  1. How do Storm Voices call up these Daemons? My guess is Call Wind feat of the Wind affinity of Hedkoranth and Orlanth Adventurous. If this is true, can the Call Lightning, Call Clouds, and related feats of the Orlanth aspects be used to call Lightning and Cloud Daemons that are similar to spirits and elementals?
  2. A Hag is referred to as a Nymph and is in the Spirits section of the Creatures chapter (p. NB 95). Are all nymphs spirits? Are alternative forms of nymphs (dryads, oreads, etc.) also considered spirits? If not, which are known not to be?

Thanks,
Andy Dawson

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