Elementals

Elementals are not born, but formed. When pure magic accumulates in high concentrations within a natural medium, it condenses into sentient manifestations of that element (such as the Blooplet which formed in the ocean, and the Sylphs and Venti, which are formed with Life and Wind magic).

List of Elementals

A – G

Blooplet

Cricle

Elementals

– B –

Blooplet

Slick as Thieves

Appears In: Postknight 1, Postknight 2

Found In: Shello Bay (Kurestal)

Class: Water Elemental

Evolution: Blooplet ➞

Bloople ➞

Blootton

Description

Blooplets are mischievous water elementals with a thick, rubbery blue membrane that holds their gelatinous bodies together. They call Shello Bay home, though they have been spotted across Kurestal’s coastal regions, occasionally venturing onto land.

A Blooplet’s distinctive feature is the pale purple hue of its body. This colouration comes from their diet of Shello Clams: the clams turn their insides pink, which, when viewed through their blue outer membrane, makes the Blooplet appear purple. Blooplets also have horns and tails, which grow progressively larger as they age.

Over the centuries, Blooplets have earned a reputation as kleptomaniacs, with a penchant for pilfering unattended objects from travellers passing through coastal towns and beaches. However, they are not the most careful of thieves, often leaving a trail of greenish-blue slime everywhere they go and on everything they touch. For both Postknights helping out the local folks and guards tasked with retrieving the stolen items, this trail makes it easy to track down the mischievous filchers.

Scholars remain baffled by the tendency of some Blooplets—not all—to steal life preservers, beachwear, even diving suits, from Shello Bay and other coastal settlements.

Some Blooplets have taken to Human summer wear, pilfering whatever they can and rocking it with no regard for size or fit.

Some Scholars suggest that these Blooplets may have observed Humans wearing summer beachwear and, taking a liking to it, decided to dress themselves in similar attire.

Blooplets are incredibly flighty creatures: any attempt to confront a Blooplet mid-heist—or even to approach it amicably—will send it fleeing. They deter pursuers by leaving a translucent gelatinous ‘shell’ as a decoy or a slick puddle of slime to slip on.

From the left, a Bloople, Blooplet, and Blootton.

– C –

Cricle

Shatter and Scatter

Appears In:
1. Postknight 1

2. Postknight 2

Found In:
1. Valley of Gold (Kurestal)

2. Mount Aldor (Kurestal)

Class: Elementals

Evolution: Cricle ➞
Cricicle ➞

Criaucle

Description

Cricles are elementals primarily found in magic-dense chambers deep within the caves of the Valley of Gold, where they form nests. Dense mineral deposits attract ambient magic, causing it to crystallise into Crichips, which eventually coalesce into Cricles. Scholars later discovered a new form of Cricle in the forests of Mount Aldor, encased in a layer of ice. They named these ice-encased elementals Cricicles.

Cricle vs. Cricicle

Cricle

Cricles begin life as Crichips, which are commonly found deep in the winding caves of the Valley of Gold. Crichips are dense ambient magic that has crystallised into fragments. These fragments gradually coalesce into a singular purple Cricle core. As ambient magic accumulates, more fragments naturally fuse with the core to form a fragile, easily shattered body bound together by unstable arcane tension. Once the body takes shape, it gains sentience, forming the Cricle we know today. When a Cricle dies, it shatters into Crichips, its original constituent parts. These Crichips can slowly reform into Cricles over time, though they may not retain the exact same consciousness as before.

Traveller's Tips: Stay alert when dealing with Cricles! When startled or damaged, Cricles blink red in a rapid, steady rhythm, signalling imminent detonation.

Cricicle

When mining activity disturbed several Cricle nests in the Valley of Gold, many Cricles migrated to Mount Aldor. Exposed to the freezing temperatures, they formed a hard shell of ice, which protects and stabilises them, but also stunts their growth. Those with this new form are known as Cricicles. However, should their ice form shatter, the Cricicles explode outward in a vicious vortex of cold wind, freezing anything within a one-metre radius and flinging Crichips in a wild arc.

Anything within a metre of a Cricicle when it explodes will be frozen solid. By applying enough force against the ice, Postknights can eventually break free.

Criaucle

By the Crystal Lake in Aldor, Scholars have discovered dozens of golden Cricles dozing on the shores. These new forms are larger and appear to be significantly more stable. They named these elementals Criaucle (cry-aw-kle).

Scholars have hypothesised that these variants are formed when stray Crichips from dead Cricicles undergo reformation after combining with the smaller crystals that grow from the Crystal of Vitality. These crystals, which form part of the Crystal of Vitality’s crystalline outgrowth, can often be found washed up on the shores of the Crystal Lake.

However, this remains conjecture based on incomplete observation.

Larger. Golden. More stable. Scholars have discovered a new variant of Cricicles by the Crystal Lake in Aldor!

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