Re: rent-a-bod

[Greg Mowczko <mooch>]

> From: Wright Frazier <khelek>
>
> re: what elementals are made of:

Nothing. They have no Body so they have no substance. They manipulate a
set amount of the appropriate matter to "form" a body.

> 	Pure form of the element:
> 	Fire: really hot flame
> 	Water: the purest water
> 	Air: the purest air
> 	Earth: Dirt.

I would go with Rocks and soil not just dirt. They are all part of earth.

> Thats how I view'em, and how the greeks probably defined them(and whatever else ancient
> cultures went into the elementalism game).  The elements were seen as good and wholesome in
> their correct forms, and its when they got 'unbalanced' that bad things happened.  "Impure
> earth" = no crops.  Impure water = no drinking.  Impure air = suffocation.  Impure fire =
> no light?  Fireone is a bit wierd.
>
> So you ask what kind of body an elemental has?  They have one composed of the purest and
> most idealistic form of their element, since they represent all that is the element.
>
> Wright

They have what they have. Can they exchange content for content? That is what
I wonder.
							Greg

> > Far be it from me to bring up one of my own chars especially after the
> > fact but how does the fact the elementals have no body affect a trasnmog.
> > Ie is body needed to transmog. What is to prevent someone of like rate
> > 1000 (???) from transmoging into Ra? Don't say it's b/c nobody has seen
> > the gods b/c there are chars that have.
> > 	Also what about spells that affect body?
> > 	Greg said that They have a psyeduo body. That is they take up
> > their element but can choose to exchange it for different types. Ie
> > Terovervo can give up some iron to have some Dimond in his body.
> > 
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