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Elemental

An elemental is a creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements: air, earth, fire and water. Elementals are commonly mentioned in grimoires dealing with alchemy and sorcery and are usually called by summoning.

In fantasy role-playing, computer and trading card games, elementals are common, albeit difficult, opponents, which can often only be defeated by an element of the opposing variety. Many games use elementals composed of non-standard elements--elementals made of darkness, ice, life energy, light, lightning, magical energy, magma, mana, mud, plants, smoke, temporal energy and weather phenomena are all relatively common.

See also: element, list of fictional species by type.

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Elementals is a superhero comic book published by Comico; see Elementals (comics).

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