Aerial servant

An aerial servant was a form of air elemental native to the Elemental Plane of Air.

Description
Aerial servants appeared to be invisible on their home planes. They resembled the upper halves of humanoids made of sparking blue vapor. Their white and blue smoky bodies had only slits for facial features, and ethereal hands with stretched-out fingers.

Behavior
Residing in calm weather was known to cause aerial servants gradually grow weaker and lifeless. When summoned a summoned aerial servant would obediently complete any task for their conjurers, though harbor resentment towards them, unless prevented from doing so. If they were prevented, aerial servants were known to go insane at striking out at their masters.

Physiology
Possessing ultra-high speed and strength, they could carry weights in excess of 10,000 gp, and move at speeds twice that of an invisible stalker.

Aerial servants could only reproduce in areas of extreme weather, where they were drawn to. Whilst engaged in such a storm, there was a chance that the servant would be blown with such force that it would create another of its kind. This process was awfully painful, and the servants strove to avoid it.

Combat
Although they generally preferred to avoid combat on their home planes, when summoned to another, they fought using their supernatural strength. They attacked by strangling opponents with their extended fingers, suffocating them and causing them to take damage. Only exceptionally strong opponents could break free of the grasp of such air elemental kin. When invisible, aerial servants surprised opponents and were incredibly quick, making it far harder to land an attack.

They could only be hit by magic weapons.

Society
These elemental kin did not form families or communities, but only appeared to wander alone. They spent much of their time soaring through their native plane, revealing its infinite mysteries.

Diet
Aerial servants fed on the planar wind of their home plane, which constituted their life force. These elementals had to be nourished in such a way at least monthly, or they took a hit to their health.

Homelands
Aerial servants were not known keep lairs or specific territories. As the cyclones, wind storms, hurricanes, and maelstroms of the Elemental Plane of Air generally did not pose a threat to them, aerial servants were often found in these areas.

On the Prime Material plane, aerial servants were often found throughout Calimshan, either guarding treasure chambers or wandering around after their summoner had failed to control them.

Relationships
Aerial servants didn't often associate with other creatures, though had a natural affinity for fellow air elementals.

Powerful clerics were capable of summoning them to Prime Material plane by means of the aerial servant spell. Clerics typically prepared for any resentment and hostility the semi-intelligent elementals might feel towards them by casting protection from evil beforehand.

Appearances

 * Magazines
 * Dragon magazine 67
 * Dragon magazine 81


 * Trading cards
 * Spellfire: Master the Magic
 * AD&D Trading Cards


 * Video games
 * Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
 * Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon
 * Icewind Dale
 * Icewind Dale II