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Sylphs or sylphids are elementals of wind who are depicted as giant women that inhabit skies, made from air and possessing bird or insect wings.

Common Tropes[]

Abilities and Powers[]

  • Air manipulation.
  • Smoke manipulation.
  • Vapor manipulation.
  • Cloud manipulation.
  • Steam manipulation.
  • Wind manipulation.
  • Sky manipulation.

Archetypes and Traits[]

  • Aerial adaptation.
  • Atmospheric adaptation.
  • Flight.
  • Invisibility.

Condition and Status[]

  • Super condition
  • Supernatural beauty

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Etymology[]

Either the mixture of Latin sylvestris (“of the woods”) with nympha (“nymph”), or from Ancient Greek "σίλφη" (sílphē, “beetle”).

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