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Summary

Certain traits are common to all Elemental races on Merlin. This meta-trait package is used without alteration by all of them.

Elemental Meta Trait

-50 points

Advantages: Doesn't Breathe [20], Doesn't Eat or Drink [10], High Pain Threshold [10], Immunity to Sickness† [15], Unaging [15].

Disadvantages: Callous [-5], Dependency (Mana, Very Common, Constant) [-25], Fragile (Unnatural) [-50], Invertebrate‡ [-20], Social Stigma (Uneducated) 1 [-5], Status 3 [-15].

Package Total: [-50] points.

Conversion Notes

† This was downgraded from "Immunity to Metabolic Hazards" since both AirElementals and EarthElementals only have a limited "Resistance to Poison".

‡ This represents the ability of all Elementals to pass through the smallest of holes due to the uniform nature of their substance. This also divides lifting, carrying and pulling capacities by four (p.B140); to adjust for this, EarthElementals add 10 levels of Lifting ST (this quadruples pushing ST), while other Elemental types reduce basic ST by four levels, making the Extra-Heavy carrying limit 18 lbs. or approximately equal to a average person's "No Encumbrance" limit.

Different levels of mana availability on different worlds will change the point value of the Dependency on it and thus that of this meta trait and the race templates that use it. This leaves the standard point values of these templates if the character starts on those worlds as follows:
Mana	Very	Common	Occasional	Rare
Frequency	Common
World	Merlin,	Unknown	Homeline?	Unknown
Name	Yrth?
Creature	Local Template Values
ElementalMetaTrait	-50 points	-75 points	-125 points	-175 points
Slyph	75 points	50 points	0 points	-50 points
Gnome	41 points	16 points	-34 points	-84 points
Salamander	-44 points	-69 points	-119 points	-169 points
Undine	55 points	30 points	-20 points	-70 points