#fire elementals

Now from what we can see, Holt and Heath are both fire elementals, but Heath is the only one who exhibits fire manipulation.

Both within the TV specials and in the webisodes.

So far we've seen Heath have the capability of:

Having hair that sets alight when he's excited or mad

Setting one finger alight akin to a candle

Be able to burn through metal

Conjuring fire/fireballs (and throwing them)

Sneezing fire

Blowing smoke

However we never see Holt show any fire abilities like this in either media.

Like yeah, he looks the part and has his stuff decorated with flames, but he never shows any fire powers.

However, there's one instance where he does display this and it's in his diary.

In it, he was so mad that he melted a pen.

So yeah, he definitely does have the ability to heat things, but it's only shown here. It also seems that like Heath, his powers are dependent on his anger or at most excitement.

But with this in mind, I'd like to share a headcannon about Holt's fire abilities:

His hair isn't capable of setting fire

He can heat/burn things like Heath, but it takes more concentration than what's usual for other elementals.

It also depends on his mood as well. For example, anger and frustration would fuel the fire (hehe pun intended) for him to burn something

If he really wanted to burn something completely (depending on how flammable the object's material is) he'd have to focus on it intently and/or channel any anger into it.

So basically, all this to say is that burning things comes more naturally to Heath than to Holt, and it's mostly because he's half-fire elemental. (Or maybe its because Heath is such a klutz lol)

Family: Will-o-wisp

Genus: dracoccaler

Family: pyrolure

(i'm doing all of them as a single post, so not individual species)

Size: 2in - 3.7 ft

Elementality: fire, light, vitality

Diet: souls. Also bugs.

Conservation status: varied

Can be kept as pet?: if you're one of those psychos who keeps will-o-wisps as a pet, how do you guys not die? This is a genuine question. You cannot approach these things without dying. How do you guys have them as fireplaces? It's not even like a dragon or a wild animal where you just have to not get attacked, these things genuinely just make you start to die if you knowingly approach.

Uhh... i don't have a ton of facts about Will-o-wisps because they terrify me.

They evolved to look like dragon eyes as defensive mimicry against salamanders (both reptile and amphibian)

They do not stop growing. The largest recorded Drake's eye was used as a weapon in the fourth great faye war, nicknamed project:Scour. it measured nearly nine meters wide.

(Image description: a Drake's eye in a bushy plant. It is displaying a low simmer, which I believe means it is hungry?)

Did some experimenting with new alcohol based inks on some clear minis.

They dry so fast it's awesome and kind of annoying too. Great blending though between layers. Found them at a Michaels craft store when my local comic book store stopped carrying army painter inks readily.

Some manufacturers are producing plastic/resin minis using colored plastic that is translucent and looks pretty nifty. The one that started this project for me was the Reaper Bones fire elemental. I liked the look of the colored plastic, but it was kind of hard to make out the details in the sculpt. I didn’t want to prime it with white or black paint, as priming would wipe out the translucency, so I started by coating it with Vallejo brush-on matte sealant.

The matte dries clear and also creates a surface that is more accepting of paint than just plain Bones plastic. *Reaper, the manufacturer of Bones, claims you can paint straight onto the unprimed Bones material without priming; you can, it just looks like poo to me. Next up was a coat of a deep red that mainly hit the high areas as I wanted the red plastic to show in the crevices.

Then my nice bright orange going lightly over the red painted areas. Then Yellow over the orange, but not as heavy as either of the two previous colors. The finishing step is to highlight with a 50/50 mix of yellow and white and only touching the high points on the sculpt.

Elementals are summoned in batches of four. One for each element. Fire is the only one left since they survived in war the best.

That’s thematic as fuck right there. 👆

Skeletons are also summoned. No bones required, just a lot of magical energy.

By product of this, skeletons are naturally very gifted with magic.

Spoken magic does exist it just isn’t taught because only humans required it.

Sealing the monsters affected humanity’s ability to use magic, it dampened and diminished to practically nothing over the years until the seal broke on Ebbot again and *whoosh* humans with magic affinity again.

Unfortunately magical affinity grows with your LOVE in humans. So that was not fun to find out.

This 👆 isn’t always the case. You can be born with strong affinity. It’s just a good rule of thumb.

Most skeletons/elementals can tie their roots back to one sorcerers who specialized in summoning.

As the war grew ever closer before the monsters were sealed, summoners became very valuable. Before it was enchanters. Enchanters did not appreciate summoners taking that pedestal and thusly tended to stand with monster-kind.

Elementals were considered second-class citizens by humanity. As were skeletons. At least initially. However both are thinking creatures with souls instead of normal thoughtless golems, which was the initial assumption. So this changed rather quick.

Basically a bunch of elementals killed a load of humans and fucked off to monster territory with the skeletons right behind them.

Who could have possibly thought it was a good idea to piss off magically inclined elementals designed for war?

.... I've been drawing too much fire lately ^^' (maybe 'cause I am on fire oof-)