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Ooze para-elementals, also known as mud elementals, were a variety of para-elemental composed of ooze.[3][4]

Description[]

These types of para-elementals had mutable forms that appeared as dark, liquid masses of writhing tendrils.[3][4] They most often took on a form with a torso, arms, and a head with gaping black indentations where a mouth and eyes would be. And according to some their bodies could be highly acidic, rapidly dissolving most organic material and metal.[1]

Personality[]

Like all para-elementals they were wary, cautious, and even unfriendly to outsiders in their home plane.[5]

Abilities[]

Possessing mutable forms, ooze para-elementals were capable of shifting their way through the smallest and tightest of crevices.[3][4] They were also capable of imitating the passwall spell[6] and possessed a minor resistance to elemental earth and elemental water based spells,[1][4][note 1] though some claimed it was an immunity.[6] And some claimed that the spell transmute mud to rock could petrify them.[4] When it came to weapons, they generally could only be harmed by those with a +1 or greater enchantment.[4]

Combat[]

Ooze para-elementals typically fought by grappling and constricting opponents with their multitude of tendrils.[3][4]

Society[]

Diet[]

Like other para-elementals, those of ooze sustained themselves by converting their elemental opposite, earth, into ooze. However, if they found themselves deprived of this, they would not starve to death.[2]

Homelands[]

This variety of para-elemental was native to the Para-Elemental Plane of Ooze,[3] and rarely willingly strayed far from it,[5][7] Though they could also be found in the elemental planes of Earth and Water.[1] And on rare occasions, one to two ooze para-elementals could be encountered in the Ethereal Plane.[8]

On the Prime Material plane, they were often encountered in the River Ith.[9]

Languages[]

Ooze para-elementals were capable of speaking both Aquan and Terran, but it always came out in a burbling tone.[1]

Relationships[]

They held an enmity towards both ooze mephits and ooze sprites,[4][10] with the former often being known to claim dominion over ooze para-elementals,[4] often killing them on sight.[10]

Rumors & Legends[]

Some claimed that ooze elementals found themselves to be revolting.[4]

Appendix[]

Notes[]

  1. Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix III technically states that, "fire- and cold-based attacks inflict only half their normal damage," but since ooze is the para-element of earth and water this considered to be an error.

References[]

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