The Plane of Fire is a constant conflagration of eternally burning flames. Though this landscape of fire needs no fuel to burn, it nonetheless releases vast billowing clouds of smoke that fill the sky above. This is the domain of the smoke elementals.
Smoke elementals are living clouds of semi-solid choking black vapor. They resemble air elementals at first glance, but two glowing eyes and a burning core of red-hot embers gives away their true nature. They can form wicked claws of solid smoke from their bodies. They believe that the first of their kind were elementals from the Plane of Air who found their way to the Plane of Fire ages ago, and the plane itself reshaped them according to its own needs and accepted them as native children, soon birthing new smoke elementals from its own fabric. Whether this is true or not, smoke elementals are almost as common in the skies of the Plane of Fire as fire elementals are on the ground.
Like fire and magma elementals, smoke elementals are neutral in the complex political machinations of the Plane of Fire, avoiding the efreet, mephits, azers, and minions of the elemental lord Ymeri. The belkers, evil smoke-creatures found on the Plane of Air, are thought to be smoke elementals who found their way back to their plane of origin and dwindled in power without a connection to the life-giving flames.
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