Riddles in the Dark of Exilian

[Jubal]

Correct! Just 4 and 5 left...

[Glaurung]

After further musing, 5 suddenly became clear:

Spoiler

a badger

I'm detecting something of a theme here...

[Jubal]

Indeed!

[Cuddly Khan]

I GOT IT!!

Spoiler

It's a bear... we sleep with a teddy bear but if we see a real bear, we run, and when we lift something we bear it.

[Glaurung]

Bump. Jubal, could you let us know whether Khan got the last one right, please?

[Jubal]

He did! Sorry, I'll try writing some new ones soon

[DeepCandle Games]

The sun warms me, and the mountains stand against me, I am everywhere but nowhere.
I can be fast, I can be slow, and sometimes I am easier to see than usual.
What am I?

[Jubal]

Wind or a breeze is the first thing that comes to mind, though I'm not sure in what circumstances that's easier to see...

[comrade_general]

If it's blowing stuff around it's easier to see.

[DeepCandle Games]

Yeah wind. 

[Jubal]

OK, here's a new one:

I was born in the morning with no-one to nurse me,
I envied the sun in the heat of the day;
As it grew cooler I got tanned and lazy,
And I've now fallen dead and I'm rotting away.

What am I?

[DeepCandle Games]

Leaves?

[Jubal]

Yup

[DeepCandle Games]

In solitary halls I wait, sought in acts of fate,
on the brink of lonely minds, on the thoughts of those who wait,
you find me when in life you hesitate, or in the darkness delve,
if you are kind to me I dissipate, if you ignore me I do swell,
many know me through angry words and jealous lovers,
i wear many masks and see through others,
selfish, selfless, I am both,
crippling, relieving, often morose,
I am found when you are lost,
Morbid, sordid, sometimes described as dross.

What am I?

[comrade_general]

Khan.