Alu Kahn Sang
The Wind of Destruction. Lord of Dust Quasielementals [it/its] / CE
Realm: Dust (wandering)
Alu Kahn Sang, the Wind of Destruction, embodies the raw entropic fury of Quasi-Elemental Dust. Manifesting as a primordial dust storm the size of a small country, it’s less of a creature than a force of nature. Within and around it are its minion-children, a legion of dust quasielementals who are notorious for their love of havoc and destruction.
Chant goes Alu Kahn Sang used to be an earth primordial made of the hardest granite, but during the Dawn War it was struck by disintegration magic of immense power. Surviving by sheer force of will, Alu Kahn Sang’s wrath was so potent that even as a cloud of angry dust it breached the boundaries of the Outer Planes and spilled into Astral Sea. It took the combined efforts of the deities Khala and her son Kord to repel the living storm back into the confines of the Elemental Chaos. Despite this, Alu Kahn Sang was not subdued—while currently restrained to the plane of Dust, it is one of the few primordials who otherwise remain unchained, still nursing a grudge against the powers who gallivant on the Outer Planes.
These days, Alu Kahn Sang is the embodiment of retribution and seeks vengeance against the gods. It’s drawn to its side entropic elementals of every kind, though its allegiance to them can be as tenuous as the sands that make up its form. The followers of Alu Kahn Sang are volatile and temperamental elementals, attracted by the promise of power—but they serve at their peril, for the Wind of Destruction is fickle and indiscriminate in his wrath, and known to consume its allies as well as his enemies.
Although this primordial might occasionally deign to communicate with mortals, its interests lie beyond such mundane beings. Alu Kahn Sang’s voice roars through in the loud places in the plane of Dust, acting as a siren song to elementals who share its anger or would seek to harness the untamed might of elemental destructiveness. Cutters who heed this call would find themselves allied with with a force that’s as likely to tear them asunder as to elevate them, for the Wind of Destruction is a true bringer of chaos.
Canonical Source: Inner Planes [2e] p117; Dragon Magazine #347 p39 (mention in sidebar); #353 p49 (as an enemy of Sunnis); Heroes of Elemental Chaos [4e] p30
Source: Jon Winter-Holt
