Light-hearted (kind of childish) question about the four elementals in the modern world
Do you think the elemental beings have adapted to man-made or man-altered systems of nature?
For example, are chlorinated swimming pools guarded by undines and if so, are they of the same nature as those who guard rivers and ponds?
It seems less ridiculous when I think of flame from a lighter having a salamander guardian,
And even less ridiculous when I think of a large-scale crop of apple trees full of gnomes,
And in the case of the that example would the gnomes view us as helpers or would they be our helpers? I don’t even want to venture into the mass destruction of rainforests because that’s a different question.
Would sylphs help protect the passengers of airplanes or are they entirely aloof to our existence?
Essentially where humans have molded an element to our whims, would the elemental beings react, adapt, overcome, contribute, etc. in our increasingly artificial world.
Are gnomes present when we melt down metals and build cities?
(I am very new to everything, and have just finished the very short writing by Manly P Hall on Paracelsus and the Four Elements, where it is asserted that these are individual beings with different sub-races, some type of “body”, the ability to mate, social hierarchy etc).