Pronai

Pronai
Pronai are elementals native to the prime material plane that embody natural forces and processes. They are attracted to strong manifestations of the process they embody and enhance them with their presence. They look like misshapen animals. The effects they have on natural processes can be either harmful or helpful to humanoids depending on where it happens – the pronai don’t care!

Very few people, aside from perhaps druids and scholars of the subject, understand how pronai work and attempts to utilize them to create effects where they are wanted (e.g. to encourage cloud pronai to stay around farming regions to create consistent rain) have been almost universally unsuccessful, often with disastrous consequences. They die if they are confined and have no inside (a dead pronai leaves behind only an empty skin) meaning they have almost no value as a quarry for hunting (besides for skin trophies). As a result, humanoids generally ignore them and think of them in the same way they may think of less animate manifestations of nature, like clouds or avalanches.