The Neutral Good Chan featured alongside her fellow Archomentals in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix 3.Ī calm breeze of softly churning air seems to suggest a benign presence. Ironically, Chan's bitterest rivalry is probably not with Yan-C-Bin, but with the Good Archomental of Water, Ben-Hadar she thinks he's a dick. A quiet and thoughtful sort, Chan's stronghold is a floating castle made entirely of glass in the Plane of Air, known as the Palace of Unseen Contemplation.Ĭhan spends most of her time locked in a cold war with her arch-enemy Yan-C-Bin, with the two constantly using their inherent invisibility to spy on each other and intimidate one another into keeping their actions on the down low.

Then again, that's a pretty dumb reason, since 1) it has never stopped the metallic dragons from always turning up alongside the chromatics, 2) dragons and archomentals both make for decent quest givers anyway, and 3) complaining about grid-filling in D&D doesn't make much sense when grid-filling is build into the very lore and metaphysical structure of the Great Wheel.Īn invisible entity of softly churning air, Chan is the master of calm breezes and gentle sounds, although she can also rage like a harsh wind or even a violent tornado. Unfortunately, the Princes of Elemental Good have never really had the traction of their more malevolent counterparts, in one part because DMs rarely have as much use for goodly monsters as they do for malign ones (evil parties are, after all, the rarity in D&D) and in another part because they really exemplify the complaints many D&D fans make of Planescape relying a little too heavily on grid-filling. Chan, Princess of Good Air Creatures and Good Elemental Air, is one of the four Princes of Elemental Good, a band of benevolent Archomentals introduced in Dungeons & Dragons to counter the machinations of the older, more iconic Princes of Elemental Evil: Cryonax, Imix, Ogremoch, Olhydra and Yan-C-Bin.

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