Air Elemental

D&D 2024 monster: Air Elemental. Source: Monster Manual (2014). challenge rating 5, creature type Elemental, Large size, speed fly 90 ft. (hover) An air elemental is a funneling cloud of whirling air with a vague semblance of a face. Although it likes to race across the ground, picking up dust and debris as it goes, it can also fly and attack from above. An air elemental can turn itself into a screaming cyclone, creating a whirlwind that batters creatures even as it flings them away. Elementals Elementals are incarnations of the elements that make up the universe: air, earth, fire, and water. Though little more than animated energy on their own planes of existence, they can be called on by spellcasters and powerful beings to take shape and perform tasks. Living Elements On its home plane, an elemental is a bodiless life force. Its dim consciousness manifests as a physical shape only when focused by the power of magic. A wild spirit of elemental force has no desire except to course through the element of its native plane. Like beasts of the Material Plane, these elemental spirits have no society or culture, and little sense of being. Conjured by Magic Certain spells and magic items can conjure an elemental, summoning it from the Inner Planes to the Material Plane. Elementals instinctively resent being pulled from their native planes and bound into service. A creature that summons an elemental must assert force of will to control it. Bound and Shaped Powerful magic can bind an elemental spirit into a material template that defines a specific use and function. Invisible stalkers are air elementals bound to a specific form, in the same way that water elementals can be shaped into water weirds. Elemental Nature An elemental doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep. Elemental Large fly 90 ft. (hover)