Elementals

• Water Beasts - can assume human shape convincincly enough to decieve TruthSpeakers. Can only maintain the form for the duration of the assigned task. Do not exist independently outside of 2nd party creation. Are sentitent of themselves once created. Creater must be very careful when programming the task, as water beasts have been know to interpert instructions....creatively.
• Earth Creatures - can assume shapes somewhat resembling insects. Good at completing manual/ dexterous tasks, generally used for infiltrate or seek and destroy or information collecting missions. Easiest to recognize and easiest to defeat. 'Life span' not limited, can remain and be 'in service' for decades - but the bodies are fragile - once critically broken they turn into dust.
  
• Wind Animals - always assume the shape of an animal - are very frail and ethereal - behave very much like animals, can't talk, used as distractions, used as trail markers, send messages long distances (can carry light objects like letters...)
• Fire Demons - are very small - only a few inches - they burrow into the living heart of people (and animals), they can stay indefinitely. Once introduced into someone's heart it is very painful and usually lethal for them to leave. Not sure what their effect or uses are...this requires more deliberation. Fire Demons are VERY difficult to create and require insane amounts of heat and concentration. They are incredibly rare - only a handful have ever been known to exist. Once created they last forever. When their 'host' dies they completely consume the body. The ashes harden and form a shell that the fire demon lives in until they are introduced into a new host....
• Creators - elementals are not created by magic. It is a scientific process and the creators are scientists - scientists that have a deep, profound connection with the Earth and space and matter. It takes a heavy toll on the scientists to create elementals - most often the scientist loses part of the 'order' that binds them as a being (the part that holds their atoms together) ...something about the energy of the human consiousness is what makes elementals possible. Scientists usually start to lose their sanity the more elementals they create - this happens as their body, life force, personal glue, starts to dissolve.
• Truth Speakers - (John/ Jack) They are trained to identify the truth of all situations. A high price is paid to become one - a 'truther' has to give up all personal relationsips with people, animals, things, places - truth cannot be first if anything else is planted in a truther's heart that could influence his persecption or motivation. They must be completely objective. They are the highest authority in the justice system. Spend decades becoming a Truth Speaker - study history, human nature, philosophy, economics, etc... Don't know if there is an acutal physical change when they become a truther or not.....still human or more than human.....