Volcaniclast

"Have you ever seen a man burned from the inside out? Taken by surprise by some foul creature and reduced to ash in mere moments? I have, and believe you me, it was a most unpleasant sight. It happened some years ago, after Glasslake Mountain blew its top.

"I found myself, along with other explorers like me, near enough to see the aftermath of the eruption, and I watched my dear friend's skin turn to charcoal before my eyes. The creatures, great, bulbous, floating things, surrounded us, and we hadn't even noticed. The rest of us fled."

- Illinois Smith, explorer extraordinaire. From his journals.

From Destruction, Life

Volcanic eruptions, like many natural distaster, often leave scars across the landscape. The tops of mountains obliterated in mere moments, fissures opeing in the earth and stone, lava flows incinerating entire forests and pyroclastic rock sent catapulting miles from the epicenter.

Among these projectiles are often volcaniclasts: elemental beings born from the release of energy into The Weave and sent hurtling over the land. Wherever they land (often a violent affair) they incubate for some time before awakening and spreading fire through the land.

Some have been known to lay dormant for decades, even centuries until the conditions are right. Then they unleash their destruction upon the world around them.





Reproductive Tendencies

Volcaniclasts with a ready supply of lava or igneous rock have been known to propogate, spawning miniature versions of themselves that grow as they accumulate suitable materials. Often this growth requires a sort of molting process, and the volcaniclasts must shed their old shells.

These discarded stone husks are greatly prized, for the inside is often coated with gems and crystals formed in the hot, dense core of a volcaniclast. But be warned, if you find a husk, it is likely the elemental who shed it is still nearby.

Elemental Nature

The volcaniclast doesn't require air, food, drink or sleep.