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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5605866" data-attributes="member: 57383">Mostly it's implied rather than stated, with mention that &quot;On the elemental plane of air can be found certain intelligent air elementals which have special abilities beyond the above&quot; and offhand remarks about elementals being ruled by a boss, chief or king. There's also the elemental princes of evil in the Fiend Folio, which are able to summon elementals of their own element (except for Cryonax, I believe that was because TSR didn't have cold elementals in an official hardback at the time).That suggests that AD&amp;D elementals have a hierarchical system, suggesting it's more an authority figure relationship than the supernatural control that, for example, a water weird can impose on a water elemental.Such a hierarchy is not that surprising. Lots of extraplanar monster types have a suspiciously neat hierarchical system in AD&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 5605866, member: 57383"] Mostly it's implied rather than stated, with mention that "On the elemental plane of air can be found certain intelligent air elementals which have special abilities beyond the above" and offhand remarks about elementals being ruled by a boss, chief or king. There's also the elemental princes of evil in the [I][B]Fiend Folio[/B][/I], which are able to summon elementals of their own element (except for Cryonax, I believe that was because TSR didn't have cold elementals in an official hardback at the time). That suggests that AD&D elementals have a hierarchical system, suggesting it's more an authority figure relationship than the supernatural control that, for example, a water weird can impose on a water elemental. Such a hierarchy is not that surprising. [I]Lots[/I] of extraplanar monster types have a suspiciously neat hierarchical system in AD&D. [/QUOTE]

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