Tunisian fire elemental

Tunisian fire elementals (also simply known as fire elementals) are a type of abnormal, creatures of living fire that consume massive amounts of combustible fuel, destroying everything in their path. There are ancient Phoenician legends about a great fiery beast that that they would unleash upon their enemies killing thousands.

History

Season 2

The UK fire elemental attacks the super abnormals. Episode 2x02 - "End of Nights, Part II": One such creature inhabited a capsule protected by the Sanctuary Network; it played a part in the defense of the London Sanctuary against the Cabal's augmented abnormal super-soldiers. During the battle, the Sanctuary group attempted to disable Ashley Magnus and the other super soldiers with a weapon that Henry Foss and Nikola Tesla had designed. When the weapon failed to produce the desired effects, Helen Magnus ordered with regret for the local elemental to be released into the main lab her daughter Ashley Magnus and the other soldiers were locked in. The creature's fire burned them beyond recognition. This was effective in defending the Sanctuary facility, as the elemental's powers were to much to bear for the super abnormals, forcing them to retreat. The only trade-off was the substantial damage this caused to the building.

Episode 2x09 - "Penance": Helen Magnus's friend Jimmy transported a Tunisian fire elemental in a small metal and glass container in his abdominal pouch. The creature was considered a nearly unlimited source of energy, and ways to harvest this energy were being worked out at the time.

Season 3

A fire elemental from Tunis held by the SS. Episode 3x17 - "Normandy": In 1943, the SS found a fire elemental in a tomb below Tunis, and brought it to a secret facility in France to be used as a weapon against an Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. The Nazis were able to control the elemental and keep it calm using a weather machine that drew its power from the elemental itself. The Five were able to keep the creature from attacking the Allied fleet by forcing it underground with James Watson's weather machine.

Notes

• Trivia: A fire elemental is one on the very first abnormals seen on the show in the Old City Sanctuary during Will Zimmerman's introductory tour of the facility.
• Trivia: The elemental the Five came upon in France is not the same one later held in the London Sanctuary.
• Trivia: When Helen Magnus first saw that Nazi commander Franz Korba's retinas were burned, that's when she realized the Nazis had to be using a fire elemental to power their weather machine, because only an elemental could cause that injury.

References

• Article about Fire Elementals on Wikipedia