A para-elemental is an inhabitant of one of the inner planes formed where two pure elemental planes meet. * Ice elementals dwell where air meets water. * Ooze elementals dwell where earth meets water. * Magma elementals dwell where earth meets fire. * Smoke elementals dwell where fire meets air. Only inhabitants of these planes are true para-elementals. Mephits are formed by drawing substances from these para-elemental planes, but are not themselves para-elementals.