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#1 DontEatRawHagis Aug 31, 2011 17:14:38	What are the primal spirits exactly? I am writing up an idea for a faction and wanted to know more about Primal Spirits before I get too far into the background. The idea was that one primal spirit, in a humanoid form, has help create a philosophical movement that has spread across the wastes. Most of the time it is associated with a cult, but for the most part the members are traveling hermits who have learned to master fire manipulation. The reason the spirit has done this was to protect lands of primal energies, but it has snowballed into something more than it imagined. Now the spirit doesn't just want to protect the land, but also expand and overtake as much space as possible and basically become as powerful as a god. Does my take on primal spirits in Dark Sun work? Or should I turn the spirit into just a shaman or elemental priest that has gone mad?
#2 halla Sep 01, 2011 9:41:35	There was an article about primal spirits in Athas in Dragon magazine: www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/d...
#3 naxel Sep 01, 2011 19:39:36	I don't think any primal spirits would really "go evil" and take over the world naturally. They exist as a balance, as a force in the multiverse which stands up for the material plane. That said, I still think this could work. Anyone who venerates a primal spirit would be viewed as an evil cultist, especially by those who live in the city-states and even more especially by the Sorcerer-kings and their loyalists. This spirit, though, may have become twisted and corrupted by the ravages of defiling magic after being exposed to them for thousands of years. Thus it may be far more aggressive than usual and certainly far more vengeful, which is something all primal spirits of Athas feel. They want nothing more than to rip out the throats of every Sorcerer-king because they destroyed their world. You could possibly, somehow, tie in Lalali-puy of Gulg. She's the only Sorcerer-king who admits to her population that primal spirits exist but that they are evil and are monsters who would destroy the world if it weren't for her protection. Her templars are often masters of primal magic but that's because they abuse, imprison, and torture primal spirits rather than live in harmony with them. You could possibly also tie in Oronis of Kurn. He's a Sorcerer-king who regrets having been such a powerful defiler and now he is on the path towards being an avangion, an arcane magic user who treats primal spirits and the world with benevolence. The idea of the shaman leader of this organization just being evil and twisted is good, too. Maybe his own personal anger has only amplified his second sight so that he only attracts the most wrathful of the primal spirits