Mountain Spirits

Báv Pyiz, or mountain spirits, are elemental creatures who inhabit high forests and peaks in areas of high wind. Their forms are physically weak but mentally strong, aiding their physical actions with telekinesis.

The eyan word for spirit, Báv, originates with the mountain spirits and is the word they use for themselves. Their voices are airy and high, carrying on the wind, leading eyan to assume they are female. Since they are created elementals, they do not have sexual traits or anatomy.

The spirits are emotional, reveling in contact with other beings' emotions, whether they are positive or negative. The spirits are annual participants of The Festival of Black in the Soza Mountains, where they encourage eyan ritual and revelry in their name.

Additional Information

Social Structure

Mountain spirits born together from the same event tend to stay in a familial group or pack. Having little need for physical things, spirits talk, sing, and travel through the forests and mountains. They band together and protect the land and its creatures by whatever reasoning they have decided is best as a pack.

This has led to clashes with eyans, who find the spirits savage when angered and unpredictable. Eyans of the Soza tribe erected shrines to the spirits a few hundred years ago and still leave offerings when traveling long distances or asking for miracles. The spirits sometimes find fun in answering the requests or leaving cryptic replies.

Domestication

Not plausible.

Average Intelligence

Low average to high average compared to their eyan neighbors.

Origin/Ancestry

Born from hot crater pools where cold winds cool the surface quickly or from volcanic vents near sea level.

Lifespan

Hundreds of years

Conservation Status

Mountain spirits are difficult to see and can fly, so are difficult to attack. They have no known predators and are not considered endangered.

Average Physique

The mountain spirits can choose their forms, often mimicking eyan and animal forms. With the recent introduction of humans to Eydan, some have begun experimenting with the human form.

Geographic Distribution