[quote=@Nimda]
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Are they united by some kind of cause?
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No, they really don't gang together like that. We're all bound by ties to the elements, but besides that we're all just people living our own lives dealing with our own problems and such. A bad person with ties to the elements doesn't just make them a sworn enemy to us, nor does it make them sworn by some evil contract to side with other bad people.