Inhabitants - Salt (TIP)

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The creatures that dwell here reflect the nature of the quasiplane they inhabit. Some are very unusual, unlike those found anywhere else in the multiverse.
==Quasielementals==
Two dominant forms of elemental creatures thrive in this plane. The most widespread of these are we salt quasielementals, ourselves. Throughout the plane, our loose series of minor kingdoms stand testament to our longevity and power. I can tell you little else without betraying important and ancient secrets.
The other race is known as facets. While they physically outnumber we quasielementals, their numbers are concentrated along the border of elemental Water. While facets can survive anywhere in the plane, they are most comfortable in this place.
A third race, less significant, is the salt mephits. They seldom form large communities, instead scattering themselves around our quasiplane. Salt mephits get along well with their quasielemental brothers, often living freely among us. They dislike facets, however, for those creatures hold many of their kin in slavery.
==Animals and Monsters==
Numerous animentals can be found here. Almost all of these creatures are reflections of those animals that make their homes in desert environs. Perhaps the most dangerous of these are the scorpions, which can grow to be the size of elephants, and snakes, whose toxins instantly transform a mortal body into moistureless crystal statues.
While the dehydrating effects of this plane destroy most creatures very quickly, we know of many minor creatures that thrive in our home plane. Sloggosh are wide-mouthed quadrupeds that inhabit the same areas as the facets, feeding upon salt and creatures that have swam in from the Elemental Plane of Water. They offer us no threat, but my people fear the hlach, a near-invisible, energy-draining parasite.
Most types of monster are no better able to withstand the harsh conditions of this plane than the average human visitor. Monsters encountered here are almost always some form of crystalline or mineral life like galeb duhr or crysmal.
==Other Races==
Various undead races have formed small necropoli in the quasiplane of Salt. They tend to be reclusive, basking in the proximity of the Negative Energy Plane without feeling the need to channel their hostilities toward the living. Indeed, I have heard that nonnatives who can cope with the fact that everyone around him is nothing more than an animated corpse may even be able to seek shelter among these undead.
==Major Players==
There are no powers in the quasiplane of Salt, nor even an archomental. Only one creature has made its name known outside the plane.
TOR SALINUS. Perhaps the most powerful creature in the quasiplane of Salt is Tor Salinus, a gigantic brine dragon. He appears to be immune to the normal dehydration of the plane, but whether this is a natural resistance or a magical one is known only to him.
Tor Salinus appears to be determined to rule the whole of the plane, but not in the manner most would anticipate. The dragon does not desire power over others, wealth, or even knowledge. He desires instead to be the only living creature in the quasiplane of Salt. Indeed, his hatred of the living extends also to the walking dead. As such, he makes no peace with the various undead communities that dot the quasiplane.
Although dragons were generally unknown to my people and my home, we now know from experience that a homicidal, maniacal dragon is not something to be taken lightly.