Balan is a Chaos Lord who appears briefly as an ally of Arioch. When Balan, Arioch, and Maluk were summoned to Earth by Jagreen Lern to help him consolidate his conquest of the Young Kingdoms, Elric summoned a legion of Stormbringer's brother swords from the Realm of Chaos to fight them. The earthly forms of the three Chaos Lords were destroyed by the swords and forever banished back to the Chaos Realm.[1]
He is also known as Balaan.[2]
In the Stormbringer! roleplaying game[]
Balaan is described as a god of pain in all its forms. Worshipped by some as a god of ecstatic agony, in other quarters Balaan is revered as the god of torturers. His face is always hidden by a mask of iron or steel which is bolted to his flesh. On Melniboné, Balaan hides his face behind the flayed face of some mortal beauty, worn as a wet and dripping mask.