Yan-C-Bin
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| Yan-C-Bin, as depicted in Dungeon #199 (2012). Art by Tyler Jacobson. | |
| Home plane: | Elemental Plane of Air |
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| Power level: | Archomental |
| Gender: | Male |
| Alignment: | Neutral evil |
| Portfolio: | Evil air creatures |
| Domains: | Air, Evil |
| Superior: | Elder Elemental Eye |
Yan-C-Bin is an archomental, the Prince of Evil Aerial Creatures. His symbol is a silver-white circle.
Description
Yan-C-Bin is normally an invisible, amorphous cloud, and is usually only felt as a slight disturbance in the air. He is about ten feet in diameter and weighs 3 pounds. Two glowing eyes may appear in his cloudlike body. He may also appear as a sage resembling a man from west of the Baklunish Basin with three pairs of bird wings and a robed body that fades into mist.
Relationships
Yan-C-Bin was once a foe of Ogrémoch, but eventually discovered his greatest foe: Chan, the good archomental of air. He sometimes gets into conflicts with Pazuzu. He despises the djinn.
Yan-C-Bin is served by air elementals, necromentals, phiuhls, air grues, breathdrinkers, invisible stalkers, and arrowhawks. Recently, he has been working with the nerras.
Realm
Yan-C-Bin spends a great deal of time wandering the planes, but lives a great sky palace made of solid air on the Elemental Plane of Air. His palace is surrounded by spiked glass spheres and turns slowly in the wind, making chiming sounds.
The region in which Yan-C-Bin resides is filled with "destroyed elemental pockets of interlopers and would-be settlers." The land is protected by Yan-C-Bin's retainers and champions, who keep vigilant watch over the realm, because this "graveyard is rumored to be a wealth of knowledge and gold."[1]
Worshipers
Yan-C-Bin has a large clan of ninja dedicated to him, as well as an order of shugenja and monks. He is often revered by dervishes and swashbucklers. Cloud giants often worship him, as do those who favor aerial mounts.
Clerics
Yan-C-Bin's clerics wear white-trimmed robes.
Temples
Yan-C-Bin's temples are built in highest mountain peaks. They are often inhabited by cloud giants, harpies, and renegade djinn, as well as humanoids riding hippogriffs, griffons, and rocs.
Yan-C-Bin was involved with the Temple of Elemental Evil and he is worshiped by evil folk in New Empyrea.
Relics
Yan-C-Bin sometimes offers his cultists a magical short sword called tempestcutter, which renders its wielder invisible and immune to air attacks.
History
Yan-C-Bin is the youngest of the Elemental Princes of Evil. He fought on the side of the Wind Dukes of Aaqa during their great wars with the Queen of Chaos.
Gallery
References
Notes
Citations
- ↑ Monster Manual (1977), p.35.
Bibliography
- Cook, Monte. "Four in Darkness: A Guide to Elemental Evil." Dragon #285. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.
- ———. Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.
- ———. Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.
- Cook, Monte, and William W. Connors. The Inner Planes. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 1998.
- Grubb, Jeff. Manual of the Planes. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1987.
- Grubb, Jeff, Bruce R. Cordell, and David Noonan. Manual of the Planes. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.
- Jacobs, James. "Spawn of Elemental Evil." Dragon #285. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2001.
- Jansing, Eric, and Kevin Baase. "Princes of Elemental Evil: The Archomentals." Dragon #347. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2006.
- ———. "Princes of Elemental Good: The Archomentals, Part II." Dragon #353. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2007.
- Kestral, Gwendolyn, et al. Monster Manual IV. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2006.
- Mentzer, Frank. Egg of the Phoenix. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1982.
- Mentzer, Frank, and Paul Jaquays. Egg of the Phoenix. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1987.
- Shea, Michael E. "Lords of Chaos: Olhydra and Yan-C-Bin." Dungeon #199. Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast, 2012.
- Turnbull, Don, ed. Fiend Folio. Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1981.
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| Topic | Type | Description | Product | Page/Card/Image
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| Yan-C-Bin | Deity | Prince of Evil Air Elementals, Prince of Evil Air Creatures, Master of Evil Air, The Great Cloud (Elemental Lord), | Deities & Demigods (1st & 2nd printing), AD&D 1e | 105 |
| Yan-C-Bin | Deity | Prince of Evil Air Elementals, Prince of Evil Air Creatures, Master of Evil Air, The Great Cloud (Elemental Lord), | Deities & Demigods (3rd+ printing), AD&D 1e | 90 |
| Yan-C-Bin | Deity | Prince of Evil Air Elementals, Prince of Evil Air Creatures, Master of Evil Air, The Great Cloud (Elemental Lord), | Defenders of the Faith, D&D 3.0e | 96 |
| Yan-C-Bin | Deity | Prince of Evil Air Elementals, Prince of Evil Air Creatures, Master of Evil Air, The Great Cloud (Elemental Lord), | Dragon magazine #285 | 45 |
| Yan-C-Bin | Deity | Prince of Evil Air Elementals, Prince of Evil Air Creatures, Master of Evil Air, The Great Cloud (Elemental Lord), | Dragon magazine #347 | 30, 32, 36, 39-41 |
| Yan-C-Bin | Deity | Prince of Evil Air Elementals, Prince of Evil Air Creatures, Master of Evil Air, The Great Cloud (Elemental Lord), | Fiend Folio, AD&D 1e | 33 |
| Yan-C-Bin | Deity | Prince of Evil Air Elementals, Prince of Evil Air Creatures, Master of Evil Air, The Great Cloud (Elemental Lord), | Legends & Lore, AD&D 1e | 90 |
| Yan-C-Bin | Deity | Prince of Evil Air Elementals, Prince of Evil Air Creatures, Master of Evil Air, The Great Cloud (Elemental Lord), | Manual of the Planes, AD&D 1e | 35 |
| Yan-C-Bin | Deity | Prince of Evil Air Elementals, Prince of Evil Air Creatures, Master of Evil Air, The Great Cloud (Elemental Lord), | On Hallowed Ground | 53, 192 |
| Yan-C-Bin | Deity | Prince of Evil Air Elementals, Prince of Evil Air Creatures, Master of Evil Air, The Great Cloud (Elemental Lord), | Oerth Journal #13 | 18 |
| Yan-C-Bin | Deity | Prince of Evil Air Elementals, Prince of Evil Air Creatures, Master of Evil Air, The Great Cloud (Elemental Lord), | Oerth Journal #23 | 47,48 |
| Yan-C-Bin | Deity | Prince of Evil Air Elementals, Prince of Evil Air Creatures, Master of Evil Air, The Great Cloud (Elemental Lord), | Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, D&D 3.0e | 63, 132, 133, 137 |