How many effreets in the elemental plane?
Who knows? How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Or there may not be so many at all.
... there have to be greater things for the "powers that be" to do than notice something so small.
The powers that be probably couldn't care less what folk on the Dragon Isles plane may do with their time- unless they are fooling with a plane other than their own.
On another point, where do the water elementals come from? Why do they show up for little old me? If water elementals can just show why would they tolerate the 'folk' at all? If a few effreet draw notice, and the opposite element reacts, why don't we see battles between the elements all the time?
They show up because they have free will and they can, whenever there is a disturbance in the equilibrium of the planes.
Perhaps there are battles taking place on the elemental plane all of the time. Or perhaps all of the elementals on that plane have come to an agreement over the years not to fight each other, but the gloves come off on other planes. Or perhaps if a destabilizing entity threatens this agreement that is eons old, they all decide to combine their efforts to eliminate that destabilizing entity.
