"They're cats. If cats could turn into whirlwinds and blow your washing off the line. You try holding a conversation with one, and it's all whooshes and gusts and the occasional sulking tornado if you offend them."— A windswept summoner
Breezy
They are the whispers of the wind, the sigh of a breeze through the trees, and the roar of a hurricane tearing across the land. They have no fixed form; one moment, an air elemental might appear as a swirling vortex, a shape barely held together by the force of its own motion. In another, it might seem like a figure woven from mist and cloud, shifting constantly as though even its existence cannot settle. And sometimes, it is simply felt- the rustle of hair against the skin, the prickling cold of a sudden gust, the hollow silence of air that has stilled.
Unlike their counterparts, air elementals are not tethered to the material world. They are ephemeral, existing in a state of endless freedom and restlessness. They dance on the currents of the sky, carried across oceans and mountains, whispering secrets from one end of the earth to the other. They are the breath of the world, the carrier of words and sounds, the unseen thread that connects all things.
Gale Force
There is a playfulness to them, a capricious joy in their freedom. An air elemental might tease a traveler by stealing their hat with a gust or swirl leaves into shapes that vanish as quickly as they form. But there is also a darker side to their nature. Air elementals are as fickle as the wind itself, and their laughter can turn to fury without warning. A playful breeze can become a raging storm in an instant, tearing through everything in its path.
Summoners speak of the impossibility of binding them. To imprison an air elemental is to cage freedom itself, and they will resistant with all the fury of a trapped tempest. They are freedom and fury, whispers and roars. And when they move, the world moves with them.
I love the comparison to cats. Very definitely true.
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"No, no, don't you think about pushing that mug off the count- goddammit."