Beasts are the standard animals of the material world. Most beasts in the Elemental Worlds are a combination of two animals from our world. Beasts change from region to region throughout the world and range in size from tiny to huge, with a few gargantuan exceptions. They can generally be expected to act like animals. They’re territorial and defensive, they hunt for their food, but they won’t attack without reason, or don’t have an inherent desire to attack. To a beast, fighting means expending energy and risking injury. They have emotions and can be provoked. They sometimes fight, live, and work in groups or packs. Some are completely harmless, some that look harmless are quiet killers. But the most threatening beasts are the apex predators. Every natural habitat has them, and they’re some of the only beasts that would consider attacking a human in the wild. They’re used to being the strongest creatures around, so they don’t often back down, but they are smart enough to calculate their odds. If they feel the odds are in their favor, you could become their next meal.

Humans are one of the greatest threats in the Elemental Worlds. If we consider the fact that anything a player character could do, an opposing character could do as well, we can see that human enemies are potentially very dangerous. When we also consider factions, organizations, and power dynamics as well, humans can become very scary. A monarch with an army at their disposal, a tyrant’s secret police, a mobster with an arsenal of hired killers, master benders, chi blockers, and benders with specialized sub-bending techniques like bloodbending and combustionbending are all potential human threats of the Elemental Worlds.

Humans are one of the greatest threats in the Elemental Worlds. If we consider the fact that anything a player character could do, an opposing character could do as well, we can see that human enemies are potentially very dangerous. When we also consider factions, organizations, and power dynamics as well, humans can become very scary. A monarch with an army at their disposal, a tyrant’s secret police, a mobster with an arsenal of hired killers, master benders, chi blockers, and benders with specialized sub-bending techniques like bloodbending and combustionbending are all potential human threats of the Elemental Worlds.

Mutants are humanoids that have been altered by a spirit. Whenever a spirit touches a human, their energy naturally begins to overpower that of the human. The longer the human and the spirit maintain contact, the more the spirit’s energy overtakes the human’s body. Brief or shallow contact might simply give the human a glimpse into the spirit’s nature or history. If a spirit enters a human’s body, they will be able to withstand the spirit’s energy for a brief period of time before the spirit starts to take over. Once the changes start, it will only be a short while before the spirit’s energy destroy the human’s body, depending on their Constitution. If the spirit leaves the body before the human is destroyed, any alterations sustained while the spirit inhabited the body remain, creating a mutant. Some mutants have no powers from their transformation, others have all of the potential power of humans, plus the infinite potential of spirits. The transformation is dependent on the spirit, and the mutant typically takes on some of the physical features of the spirit. Typical alterations include improved strength and speed, health and stamina, and natural weapons like claws, a tail or horns. Beyond physical alteration, some spirits will leave energetic changes on humans. Finally, the most powerful type of mutant is one that has permanently bonded itself to a spirit. This can only happen under special circumstances, usually requiring a massive amount of raw spirit energy or a situation in which a human’s energy overcomes that of the spirit, a very rare occurrence. These mutants acquire the full power of the spirit, becoming as much spirit as they are human.