Rand has put together an imaginative array of elementals--from the feriocious to the adorable, from the Far West to the Dreaming Sea. Almost all of them are both useful for thier sorcerer and as ST NPCs. The book is also written in a more relaxed voice, which is a nice change of pace among Exlated supplements--this feels like a guide more than a text book. My personal favorites are the oldenlode(anthorpologist and folklorist here), the smoulderseam, and the falling fog.