[Bug][Or maybe just something really unfun] Level 9 Air Elemental Spawns In My Backyard without warning

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So I apologize if this screenshot is massive, I'm just getting used to image uploads. What I would like to point out is that this air elemental and his friends spawned in the square where they are currently pictured, completely randomly. I guess there could be some enemy spell that did this, but if so, it went unnanounced. There are no air elemental lairs nearby. I was not given any random event message. This just happened. Next to a conclave deep in my territory and far from any other dangers. I understand that a certain degree of randomness is nice, but this is ridiculous, especially on a "normal" world difficulty. Please make it so this doesn't happen.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Are you sure he spawned there? Air Elementals have flying now, they can cross water.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

He's accompanied by 3 air shrills, so unless they too can fly, that's not what happened.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top


There is a bug or feature that allows the airshrills that are with the elemental to fly as well. He probably flew across the sea...

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Either way.. high level monsters from far, far away (sometimes places the player hasn't even explored) deciding to leave their lairs and home in on your cities is getting very old. I just had a lord of the flame army (from one of the wildlands presumably?) walk out of Kraxis' territory and show up next to my capital about turn 80. I never even discovered the wildland, who knows how far he came - threading his way past a couple of Kraxis' cities - to find mine.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

"So I apologize if this screenshot is massive, I'm just getting used to image uploads"

its fine! :D

"What I would like to point out is that this air elemental and his friends spawned in the square where they are currently pictured, completely randomly"

as the others said, are you sure they spawned, looking at your minimap it seems likely the air elemental "carried" the airshrills over the body of water (when a monster group have an air elemental, the whole monster groups is flying).

"high level monsters from far, far away (sometimes places the player hasn't even explored) deciding to leave their lairs and home in on your cities is getting very old."

Yes that is really getting old, being ambushed in my own territory from earth elementals, fire elementals, dragons and whatever else the widlands all over the map used to contain is mildly annoying.

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~ Kongdej