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Ravens:
By inverting the process of crystallising manifest darkness, we take the material kin of darkness, specifically ash*, and coax it into forming an immaterial aspect. By taking the examples of impish will and golem animus, we forge these into forms that resemble, in both form and function, birds of pure black. Their ashen nature allows them to be coated on another creature, to use them as transport, while their immaterial aspect spreads their animus across material separations, allowing them to almost instantly reform themselves from anything that doesn't either completely disperse their matter, too far for their immaterial aspect to spread, or attacks against their immaterial aspect, such as divine light. Further, they can spontaneously form beaks and talons of Dark Crystal, and constantly radiate an aura of darkness, invoking fear, doubt, and weakness in those they encounter, which can accumulate when they congregate in large numbers...

Something for the fire plane with a them of being scary and difficult to defeat with conventional means, but somewhat lacking in direct firepower, what with them just being birds made of ash with a few small spikes. They should make for an effective support unit while being largely immune to fire and falling, which should make them effective at conquering the fire plane. They ought to be able to function in the water plane, but would likely be greatly troubled by being soggy. Still, soggy is better than extinguished which is what you would get from the typical fire minions...

*Ash being to fire what shadow is to light, the remnant of its absence. Shadow is a form of darkness, and fire is a form of light...