Inhabitants - Mineral (TIP)

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Some folks might be real surprised to hear that this realm of ores and gems is so populated. It seems all these strange planes got their own inhabitants. Stands to reason, I suppose. If we live on our plane, something's sure to live on the others, right?
==Quasielementals==
Now, what kind of blasted fool would give anything a name like that? Some human, I'd wager my gold teeth. Anyhow, these folks don't take too well to folks coming to the plane of Mineral and carting off their goodies. I guess I can't blame 'em. We'd do the same thing if it were our claim, right?
These quasi-folk don't even much like the xom or the khargra who come here from the plane of Earth. These creatures eat minerals, so they're not too popular among the whatchacallit-mentals that try to defend the place. They're organized like a military, and real tough in a fight.
==Animals and Monsters==
Now, if you ask me, an animal is a squirrel or a bird or something like that. Anything else is a monster, right? That, they tell me, makes me a "clueless berk." Well, they can stick it right up their own "berks!" Folks on the planes got their weird ways of talking and strange ways of thinking-goes to show that when a fellah's done with the planes he ought to go home to his kith and kin and forget all that "planewalking" business. Ain't healthy.
This plane is lousy with critters that'll eat you as soon as look at you. Crysmals, xom, khargra, and even a thoqqua or two lair here. Don't go to the Mineral plane without a good, sharp axe, I say.
==Other Races==
There's some native creatures in Mineral that you'll never see anywhere else. I've sure never seen their like. One kind go by the name tassingg or some blasted thing (tsnng-the Editor). These folks look like they're made right out of crystals, right? They're not friendly to miners and they really like magic, so there's two strikes against them right there.
Mineral mephits are some strange little critters, I must say. Selfish, greedy, and self-important, they not only hate those that try to take valuable materials from the plane of Mineral, but they demand that a fellah give them whatever he might have brought with them as well. Like I said, a good axe....
The dao from Earth come here from time to time, and I've seen pech too, by the gods. Neither's friendly to dwarves, so I don't have much good to say about them neither. The dao worked out a pact with the quasi-whosits, so they're free to go where they please and take what they want. Blasted genies!
==Major Players==
Apparently, to hear some tell it, each Inner Plane's got itself a king or two. Stands to reason, right? Well, there's a fellah here in Mineral who calls himself the king (actually, he claims to be an archomental-the Editor), but most folks off the plane of Mineral don't pay him no heed.
CRYSTALLE. This powerful creature looks like one of those quasi-fellahs and maintains a huge castle defended by crysmals, quasi-ele-whatevers, and golems made of gold, silver, and even mithril. His rule's a fairly peaceful one, and he seems to be a good and kind ruler for the most part. He doesn't have any plans to invade the Material Plane or anything like that, as far as I know, anyway.