Land Spirits
An Orglash, or ice spirit, is a rare elemental native to the Prime Material Plane and found in the land of Rashemen. Similar to air elementals, Orglash have insubstantial bodies made of wind and snow.
Orglash are wild and chaotic, but think of themselves as protectors of the land. Orglash seem able to sense if one is a foreigner to the land. They may remain motionless at a distance and allow a native to pass by, but they will certainly attack someone they consider an outsider.
An Orglash is immune to all cold and cold magics and can regenerate its health in freezing conditions, but it suffers against fire magics. An Orglash is especially resistant to the magics used by Thayan wizards. Some Orglash can take the form of a powerful whirlwind, much like an air elemental.
Orglash are solitary creatures. A single orglash protects a single locale, usually a mountain peak, valley, or other cold place. They expand their territory in the winter months and will travel over all the land during those times.
Orglash can lash out at foes with tendrils of sharp ice shards and wind. They can also emit a powerful blast of cold similar to the spell cone of cold several times per day.
Orglash can only survive in cold temperatures, so they are most commonly found in winter, though they can also survive in some springtime temperatures. They are injured by temperatures above 60° and can not maintain the form of their bodies in temperatures over 100°. Such temperatures do not kill them; they simply have to return to an area with colder temperatures or wait until the weather cools to be able to resume their natural forms again.
The Rashemaar have mixed feelings about the Orglash. The creatures defend the land of Rashemen against the Red Wizards of Thay, but they also sometimes attacked native Rashemaar. It is argued that the Orglash care only for the land of Rashemen and not its people.
The Witches of Rashemen sometimes summon Orglash to fight for them. Some folk believe that Orglash also worked together with Bheur hags, but it was not known if such tales were true.
It is possible that there are other varieties of Orglash that are more similar to other elementals, such as invisible stalkers, than to air elementals.