Quasielemental, Negative, Salt [411]

Climat/Terrain Quasiplane of Salt
Organisation Solitary
Fréquence Peu commun
Diète Water
Cycle d'activité Any
Intelligence 13-14 - Hautement intelligent
Trésor Nil
Alignement Neutre Absolu
Nombres 1-6
Classe d'armure 1
Mouvement Au sol : 3"
Vol : - Classe de vol :
Nage :
Enfouissement :
Web :
Dés de vie 6, 9, or 12
Thac0 6 HD: 15 9 HD: 11 12 HD: 9
Nbre d'attaques 1
Dommage / attaques 1-8 + 1hp/HD
Attaques spéciales Absorb moisture
Défenses spéciales See below
Résistance à la magie Nil
Taille L - larger than man-sized ( 7+' to 12' )
(9-12’ tall)
Morale 15-16 - Champion
Valeur en XP 6 HD: 2,000 xp
9 HD: 5,000 xp
12 HD: 9,000 xp

Commentaires : Every time a body thinks he’s nailed down the Inner Planes, they just get more complicated still. It’s easy enough to understand the four Elemental Planes, and not too hard to tumble to how they mix to form the Paraelemental Planes. But it doesn’t stop there. In addition to combining with one another, the four planes of the basic elements also mix with the Positive and Negative Energy Planes to produce the eight Quasielemental Planes. And, as sure as Sigil, those eight quasiplanes spawn their own elemental beings – namely, quasielementals.

For reasons that graybeards love to rattle their bone-boxes about, quasielementals simply aren’t as powerful, in general, as elementals or paraelementals. The explanations range from mere coincidence to the idea that the quasiplanes have lower energy levels than the others. Most scholars, however, believe that the quasiplanes are the least fundamental of the Inner Planes, and therefore produce beings of less inherent power. ’Course, this doesn’t mean that quaslelementals’s pushovers. Far from it. They’rs bloods to be respected, particularly when encountered in their home environments.

This entry takes a look at the negative quasielementals – the ones that hail from Ash, Dust, Salt, and Vacuum. They’re considered “negative” because they come from quasiplanes formed from the conjunction of the Negative Energy Plane and Air, Earth, Fire, or Water. Some folks look upon these negative quasiplanes – and their quasielementals – as representing the disintegration of the main four elements.
Like the crystalline facets, other natives of the Quasiplane of Salt, the salt quasielementals absorb moisture of any sort. They’re not as numerous as the constantly multiplying facets, though, especially in the border areas between Salt and the Elemental Plane of Water. They can take on other appearances (as can certain other quasielementals), but these salt beings most often resemble large, white, rime-encrusted lizards.
Combat : Using their large, dense fists, salt quasielementals can smack their foes and cause 1d8 points of damage plus 1 additional point per Hit Die (6, 9, or 12). But they pose an even greater danger to any beings that contain water – which includes most animal and plant life, creatures of elemental water, and so on. The quasielementals automatically leech moisture from anything within 80 feet, and this draining effect inflicts 2d6 points of damage per round on susceptible creatures.

’Course, a body knows what’s said about too much of a good thing. If a salt quasielemental encounters so much water that it’s entirely immersed, it dies, exploding with great force. Everything within 30 feet of the creature is subject to an attack (as if the quasielemental itself had made it). Those struck suffer 1d8 points of damage from flying salt shrapnel.

Salt quasielementals can be struck only by weapons of +1 or greater enchantment. They’re also immune to fire.
Habitat / Société : The salt quasielementals stick mostly to their own plane. Fact is, they’ll never join the facets’ crusade against the Elemental Plane or Water, due to the dangers they’d face from being near such large volumes of liquid. More or less solitary creatures, salt quasielelementals’re content to wander their plane, absorbing water in small amounts.

It’s interesting to note that while a salt quasielemental can drain the moisture from a facet, the process doesn’t work in reverse – a facet can’t absorb anything from a salt quasielemental. This just goes to show that the quasielemental is truly the embodiment of salt (and dryness), while the facet is just a creature of salt.
Ecologie : Chant is that a few high-up wizards have figured out a way to imprison salt quasielementals in their laboratories to keep their spellbooks and delicate experiments dry.