They are sometimes worshipped by elemental priests, although the magma elementals themselves use this adulation to their own advantage, and discard their priests when they grow tiresome.
They are most common around areas where both seismic and volcanic activity are common, such as volcanoes, but are known to have spread back to the Elemental Chaos. Magma elementals are the most common example of this both earth and fire elemental creatures are relatively abundant on the parched desert-world, and Athasian lore holds that they are the result of fire and earth elementals being forcibly fused together by the lingering effects of destructive, reality-warping, or defiling magic. that's about as much as I know about the history of magma elementals.ĭue to the destructive magical energies that have inundated Athas, and its abundance of raw elemental magic, it's little surprise that bizarre warped versions of common elementals should exist. Paraelemental planes got a little more prominence in the Dark Sun setting, although that plane made at least some tweaks to the paraelemental lineup - I remember it having Rain instead of Ice, for obvious reasons.Īnd. Planescape solidified, if it didn't create, the existence of "paraelemental" planes (fusions of two elemental planes) and "quasielemental" planes (fusions of an elemental plane and an energy plane). The idea of a magma elemental goes back pretty far in D&D history. Dungeon #183: Eye on Dark Sun: Magma Elementals