Feldlings

Feldlings are elementals that are usually about ten feet tall. They spring to life seemingly randomly around one or more Heash stones and then attack anyone they see. They are sentient to a degree, but their experience is limited to confusion, fear, and rage. They do not have memories to draw from and do not understand their own existence.

Feldlings take on the elemental properties of the stones they contain. If the Feldling has more than one elemental stone, it will have properties of all of the included elements. The greater the number of stones or the higher their class, the larger the elemental tends to be.

The vast majority of Feldlings are powered by only one stone. The stones are most often contained at the heart of its body, but have been seen occasionally in other places, such as the center of the forehead or the palms of the hands.

A Feldling’s skin is almost impenetrable, but the Heash stone is at the surface of its skin, where it glows and is easily visible. The easiest and surest way of defeating a Feldling is to knock the stone(s) loose. The creature will crumble without a stone to power it. If a Feldling has more than one Heash stone, and only one of them is knocked loose, the creature will lose the elemental traits of the lost stone and will decrease in size/strength according to that stone’s power.

Theoretically, you could have a Feldling that contains stones for all of the elements at once, but this has never been seen. Feldlings can be found all throughout Fiadhach.