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| [[File:Elemental Weirds (Air and Water).jpg|thumb|right|300px|Weirds of Air and Water.]]
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| [[File:Elemental Weirds (Earth and Fire).jpg|thumb|left|300px|Weirds of Earth and Fire.]]
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| '''Elemental Weirds''' are, as the name implies, an [[elemental]] race from the history of [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. Uniquely - for elementals - they've changed drastically between [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] and [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]].
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| They debuted as the "Elemental-kin: Water Weird"; an intelligent but usually hostile water [[elemental]] that could shapeshift between the form of a mass of water and a snake made of solid water. It had more than a touch of [[Gotcha Monster]]. This version debuted in the 1975 WinterCon "Tsojconth" for [[Dungeons & Dragons]], and was later included in the first edition [[Monster Manual]] (as chaotic-evil), crediting Ernie Gygax for its creator.
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| [[Rose Estes]] featured a vicious and territorial Water Weird in ''[[Endless Quest|Dungeon of Dread]]''. Meanwhile [[Tom Moldvay]] did ''not'' include them in his Expert Set; neither would [[Frank Mentzer]]. Tsojconth also-meanwhile would get revised into [[S4: Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth]] - swapping the Weird for a [[marid]] (of course we couldn't know that). So, for many of us, Estes' book was the only place we'd meet 'em. Estes' Weird wasn't a killer; it didn't act evil. All those kids coming into the hobby with this Weird in mind didn't believe the Manual's "Chaotic Evil" guff. The Water [[Grue]] "Chaggrin" ended up taking the Weird's niche as a truly sadistic elemental-kin.
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| 2nd edition redid the Weird in the Monstrous Compendium Volume Two, which got reprinted in that Monstrous Manual under the "elemental, water kin" heading.
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| In [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition|3e]], however, the Elemental Weird - which debuted in the [[Monster Manual]] II - was instead stated to be a species of [[elemental]]s found all over the [[Elemental Planes]], taking the forms of [[monstergirls|beautiful women made up of elemental matter, be it Earth, Air, Water or Fire]]. These creatures are described as elemental oracles, acting as seers and fortune tellers. This version of the Elemental Weird would receive an Ecology of the Elemental Weird article in [[Dragon Magazine]] issue #347, which also brought back the original Water Weird by stating that infant Elemental Weirds - statted here as "Lesser Weirds" - spend their lives as snake-like elementals tied to a mass of elemental matter, until eventually they mature and transform into the shapely elemental [[nymph]]s. [[Elemental Book Series|Frostburn]] would expand the list of four elemental weirds with two new ones from the Paraelemental Plane of Cold; Ice Weirds and Snow Weirds.
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| As of [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition|5e]], they are back to their original snakelike form. Or at least the Water Weird is, as it's the only weird to show up in 5e.
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| ==Gallery==
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| <gallery>
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| water weird 1e.jpg|1e
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| water weird MCV2.jpg|2e
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| water weird 5e.jpg|5e
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| </gallery>
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| [[Category: Dungeons & Dragons]] [[Category: Monsters]] [[Category: Monstergirls]]
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