Elementals

Counting in their numbers some of the eldest of the spirits, elementals see newer spirits (and the half-spirit Uratha) as a passing annoyance. The eldest among them remember a time before animal- or plant-spirits existed, let alone the choirs and descants spawned by humanity’s presence. And, as they are never hesitant to point out, they will exist long after the newcomers are no more.

Air Elementals Choir

Descants among the Air Elemental Choir tend to be as amorphous as the element itself. Some, such as the Cold Descant, are based on characteristics and include everything from winter breezes to the infamous North Winds regardless of where they are found. Others are more regionally definitive, and can include the myriad of air patterns specific to coastal shorelines or deserts. Still others deal not with air movement at all, but composition. Smog, fog and other compositions all may claim membership in the Air Choir, although individual spirits may prefer to identify within pollution or weather descants as well.

• Wind Descant: Waftling, breeze spirit

Fire Elementals Choir

Whereas the Water Choir’s descants are predominantly divided by form and the Earth’s by composition, the Fire Choir holds predominantly descants of intensity. Spark-spirits, quickly expiring but vibrant, have goals similar to those of their brethren in the Explosion Descant but different from those of their mellower but longer-lived cousins in the Flame Descant.

• Flames Descant: Consuming Fire, flame elemental

Earth Elementals Choir

Many spirits within the Earth Choir are steady and tireless, moving and speaking slowly and deliberately. There are, of course, exceptions, such as the fiery lava-spirits. For the most part, earth-spirits are not easily swayed from their purpose. Earth elementals are among the oldest in the spirit wilds and some of the most difficult for the Uratha to deal with. There is little these elementals desire from these young upstarts who fancy themselves caretakers of a world in which they are little more than fledglings themselves.

• Granite Descant: Enduring, granite elemental

Water Elementals Choir

Nothing living can exist long without water, and the spiritual embodiments of this element have never forgotten it. Their personalities can vary from the capriciousness of a babbling brook to the solemn (bordering on emotionless) depths of the sea. The more powerful a water-spirit is, the more likely it is to have absorbed elements of other spirits it has preyed upon, coloring its personality and physical form.

• Rivers Descant: Swift Waters, river spirit

Artificial Elementals Choir

Some spirits that gather in the Artificial Elementals Choir are truly the spiritual embodiment of human-created materials. Plastic-spirits, like their natural cousins, are the building blocks from which objects are created, and some retain their connection to their material background rather than aligning themselves with the specific choir or descant that their end-product would seem most closely tied to. Others, like electricity-spirits, have truly existed in a natural form since the beginning of time, but have now become so associated with humanity that they are no longer truly welcome in their original choirs.

• Electricity Descant: Trapped Lightning, electricity spirit
• Plastic Descant: Anyshape, plastic spirit
• Steel Descant: Iron's Child, steel spirit

Weather Elementals Choir

Crossing the apparent elemental boundaries between air and water, weather elementals have existed almost as long as either of the primary elements. They consider themselves an individual choir, but maintain strong ties to both of their ancestral choirs.

• Lightning Descant: Cloud Sword, Rank 1 lightning elemental; The Thunderer, Rank 5 Royal Avatar of Thunder and Destruction
• Storms Descant: Angry Skies, Rank 2 storm elemental