Chapter 5Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. Aboard his yacht, Culann considered the four major Elementals.
The four classical Elementals, with their corresponding mythic beings—gnomes, undines, sylphs, and salamanders—had been studied for centuries, their various schools feeding frenzily upon subtle differences of power between the Elementals.
Don't forget the fifth, he told himself. Aether, more often spelled without the initial 'a,' wasn't very influential, had very few proponents or even advocates, was rarely invoked or contemplated, and as such remained much of an enigma even within the enigmatic sciences of Neo Druidry.
An irony that it's the most plentiful Elemental, Culann thought.
Also known as quintessence, ether was the space between worlds, the material filling regions unoccupied
