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100 Elemental Locations

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This is a collection of 100 different elemental locations, divided into four groups of 25, air, earth, fire and water. These locations could be used on the appropriate elemental planes or, alternatively, used in other locations that have a strong connection to a specific element. Many of the locations assume that there are elemental creatures present in them, but this can easily be changed.

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  • Rainbowed Swamp: This murky mire is constantly shrouded in fog, yet for some reason, even with the lack of light, the fog is filled with rainbows. The effect is striking, but it is far more dangerous than it looks. The rainbows are not created by light shining through water droplets. Instead, they are a type of elemental air life, one that uses its colours to lure prey in to then suck them dry, not unlike the actions of a will o'the wisp.
  • Treasure Outpost: Situated in the heart of rich ore, mineral and gemstone veins is this outpost of elemental earth beings. The outpost is a treasure house, used to store that which has been mined from the surrounding veins, which makes it a very tempting target for those interested in such treasure. The outpost is heavily defended and riddled with traps and no attempt to steal from the place has been successful, so far, with all the intruders dying in the process. Their corpses are hung from the outpost's walls.
  • Lair of the Fire Sharks: Inhabiting the flaming region is a pack of unusual creatures of elemental fire that look very similar to sharks in appearance, albeit made of fire, and also behave in a similar manner. When something is injured within range of the lair, and the fire sharks seem to consider a range of different creatures as prey, the pack of sharks will descend on it in a feeding frenzy ripping it to pieces. They also appear to be able to detect potential food from some distance away, even that which isn't injured.
  • Malleus Waterspout: A large, permanent and deadly waterspout that gained its sobriquet from how it hammers those that travel too close to it. Ships in particular get rendered down to mere splinters, but any creature runs the risk of being hammered apart, or at the very least grievously injured, by the forces of the waterspout. The spout seems almost sentient in the way it targets approaching things.


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Ellen S August 28, 2022 11:18 pm UTC
I wish this also included Wood and Metal.
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Adrian K August 29, 2022 8:09 am UTC
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I hadn't thought of something like that! I was just doing the four primary elemental planes. Interesting idea; I wonder what other things could pair with those to make another four types.
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Ellen S August 29, 2022 4:25 pm UTC
It could be Chaos and Law, in the Planescape senses of those concepts. Or Ice/Cold. Or Light/Positive Energy and Darkness/Negative Energy, but without the cliched and overdone connotations of good and evil. It doesn't have to be four, it could be five.
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Ellen S September 01, 2022 3:01 pm UTC
To clarify my response, my suggestions are additions that may help players use this in a wider variety of settings.

In Chinese, Tibetan, and some other East Asian cosmologies, Wood and Metal are fundamental elements but Air is not.

In Planescape (and D&D in general before 4th Ed.) Chaos, Law, Good, Evil, Positive Energy, and Negative Energy are additional cosmic fundamentals, and Ice is a paraelemental plane that does not resemble its "parents" closely. Wood is also an optional fifth cardinal element. Good and Evil have been done so many times they don't need any additional help, I think.

In Exalted, Wood is the fifth fundamental element alongside the classical four, and Air includes ice, cold, and lightning.
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Adrian K September 01, 2022 3:11 pm UTC
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And then there are all the Para- and Quasi-elemental planes that were in some editions of D&D (AD&D Manual of the Planes off the top of my head).
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Ellen S September 01, 2022 3:21 pm UTC
Right. But most of the para-planes feel, at least to me, very much like variants of the planes next to them. Most could be randomized with reinterpretations of the results from the tables here. Ice is the one that really does not feel like Water or Air, but like its own thing...

Also it occurred to me that in some settings, Earth includes Wood.
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Adrian K September 01, 2022 5:33 pm UTC
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True, there is definite, and I suppose natural, overlap between some of the para- and quasi-planes and the main ones. Quasi-elemental lightning is perhaps another that stands out as being a bit different.
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