Elementals have plenty of utility. Many are capable crafters or capable of producing materials, plenty of Wood and Water elementals are capable medics, and warrior elementals can also know martial arts. Plus, a year and a day is more than enough for most tasks, even aside from the fact that Elementals can be negotiated with to continue tasks beyond the end of their mystical binding without being guaranteed to fuck you over like Demons would.
Elementals have as many problems as demons. Neither is human, don't think either is better they are not.
Counterpoint, it's easier to banish elementals on a failed binding, and Demons actively hate you while some Elementals are explicitly pretty reasonable, even if their utility functions are different than ours.
the difference is so minor that even to the weakest sorcerer able to cast the spell as to be not relevant. It is irrelevant since we can just have 5 DB stand guard and kill the demon if the binding fails. And elemental will kill you the same as a demon if you do something stupid. And frankly outside of combat elementals are the worse option by far. Also 50/50,we would get Warhammer elementals which are decidedly not friendly anyway.
Demons don't hate people. They are strange and alien, but it is entirely possible to become friends with them. First circle demons are not that dangerous for a Dragonblooded sorcerer.
I fundamentally disagree. Elementals are alien but demons hate you. And Demons fundamentally have worse optics among our peers and citizens. And I'd like to reiterate my point that Elementals have plenty of non-combat utility equal to Demons. They've got crafters and medics and material producers too.
No they don't. Demons do not hate people. They are alien and strange, but they do not hate people. It is entirely possible for mortals to safely summon and bargain with demons. Mortals. We are not suggesting using 2nd circle demons, who would be too strong for us to contain. 1st circle demons can be controlled easily.
By that argument, there would also be a nonzero chance of us getting a Chaos Daemon from demon summoning, no? I don't know how similar they would be to Exalted Demons, but probably not significantly more removed from each other than Warhammer Fantasy Elementals and Exalted Elementals?
Well, you can't really bargain with Warhammer Daemons once you've already done the job of summoning them. Either you force them under your control by sheer force of will, or they run rampant and kill whoever they want, summoner included.
Very different demons. WH demons are just evil. Exalted demons are alien with alien priorities.
The only people to make head way on improving DB are Neomah and, the Scarlet Empress who had access to top level First Age tech.
Well that's nice.
But she can learn those of her parent?
