Elementa

Elementa (Polish: żywiołak or istota magiczna) are entities that live in either one of the Elemental or Para-Elemental Planes, or in the Material Plane but fueled by the elemental power.
== Characteristics ==
Elementa usually live in their appropriate elemental plane. In material world, they tend have rather weird and scary shapes, with claws, spikes and knobbles.The Ceaseless Light A powerful mage is however are able to bind an elemental into a construct, creating an entity with shape and intelect of a golem but power of an elemental.
Elementa vary in intellect and skills. Wild Hunt Hounds seem to resemble mundane beasts such as dogs and wolves, neufrae are a sentient race with skills compared to those of the arch-masters of magic, while genies are beings with power almost unmeasurable.
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Elementa are a type of monster in . While never mentioned ingame, the Wild Hunt themselves are Elementa as they are susceptible to Elementa oil.
Elementa include:
== Notes ==
* Though constructs such as golems and gargoyles are not really elemental beings if they are not "fueled" by entities from the Elemental Planes, they are categorized as Elementa in and . In German edition of game, the "Elementa" category is even translated as Konstrukte (constructs) despite djinns being obviously not constructed.
** The problem stems from using multiple names for the category in different language variants of The Witcher 3. In the Polish version of the game, the name used is istoty magiczne (magical beings), which is more broad than żywiołaki (elementa) and can encompass any being fueled by Magic, such as constructs. Żywiołaki (elementa), as they are described in Andrzej Sapkowski's work, and constructs, can be thus defined as two groups within much broader set of magical beings.
== Videos ==
File:What are Elementa? The Witcher 3 Lore - Elementa
== References ==
pl:Istoty magiczne
de:Konstrukte
ru:Духи стихий
uk:Магічні істоти
 
Category:Creatures