Elemental

A typical elemental creature called an Air Elemental.

Elementals are a type of creature that hail from the Elemental planes. They are creatures that embody a single elemental plane.

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Creatures native to the Elemental Planes. They range from simple masses of a specific element to beings infused with elemental energy.

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— In-game racial description

Characteristics

Elementals come in a wide variety of forms and sizes depending on their element. They don't typically have features typical of other creatures, as they are generally made of the element's plane they come from. They are often, but not always, resistant or immune to the damage type associated with their element.

Types of elementals

Azer

Main articles: Azer and Azer on the Forgotten Realms Wiki

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Master craftsmen and expert miners made from bronze and fire.

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— In-game racial description

Azer are dwarf-like creatures with bronze skin that burns so hot that their weapons and bodies can burn nearby creatures.

Mephit

Main articles: Mephit and Mephit on the Forgotten Realms Wiki

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Capricious, vulgar, and rarely endearing - except to their masters. Mephits are curious, impish creatures from the Elemental Planes.

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— In-game racial description

Mephits are imp-like creatures that enjoy being tricksters.

Mephits in Baldur's Gate 3

• Grease Mephit
• Ice Mephit
• Magma Mephit
• Mud Mephit

Mud Elemental

Main article: Mud Elemental

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These sludgy, muculent elementals come from a Plane intersecting Elemental realms of Water and Earth.

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— In-game racial description

Mud elementals are strong, humanoid shaped masses of mud.

Lava Elemental

Main article: Lava Elemental

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These superheated sacks of molten slag come from a Plane intersecting Elemental realms of Earth and Fire.

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— In-game racial description

Lava elementals are similar in appearance to earth elementals except they are made of lava.

Other

• Air Elemental
• Air Myrmidon
• Djinni
• Earth Elemental
• Earth Myrmidon
• Fire Elemental
• Fire Myrmidon
• Flaming Sphere
• Hell Sphere
• Water Elemental
• Water Myrmidon

Related items

• Voss' Silver Sword - +1d4 bonus to attack rolls and damage against elementals

Related spells and abilities

•  Banishing Smite - if successful, banishes an elemental back to their plane of existence.
•  Blood Frenzy - won't grant advantage against injured elementals
•  Planar Binding - if successful, takes control of enemy elemental
•  Protection from Evil and Good - elementals have disadvantage against the target
•  Slam (Zombie) - won't apply  Crawling Gnaw to elementals