![]() Many genies can grant wishes to those who bind them, best them, or earn from them a favor. However, some genies meet a terrible fate as an undead ghul or edimmu, and the most evil of all genies' souls find their way to Abaddon and are transfigured into divs. Upon its death, a genie's soul is reabsorbed into the elemental plane of its birth and reincarnated into a new body. When struck down by violence, a genie's body evaporates, dissolves, or crumbles into its constituent elements. Genies are effectively immortal, immune to the ravages of time and old age. Most genies, save the nomadic jann, live decadent lives in opulent palaces or cities on the elemental planes the most magnificent are the Opaline Vault of the shaitan and the efreet's City of Brass. The power of a genie is often linked to its physical size, with the oldest and/or most powerful being the largest. They grow much faster than mortals, reaching adulthood at the age of six (for efreet or djinn) to fifteen (for jann). Unlike most outsiders, genies are born in the manner of mortals, usually in sets of twins or triplets, or even in litters of up to eight. 6Įarly in their history, before mortals were created, many genies of all races were enslaved by the godlike tyrant Iblis, and the struggle to obtain and keep their freedom was the only time the warring genie races ever joined forces against a common foe. He created the corrupt divs from the souls of evil genies to bedevil them. Ahriman hates the genies with ever fiber of his being. 5Ĭoncurrent with the creation of the genies, the dark demigod Ahriman came into existence as the genies' destructive shadow. ![]() 4 Their own stories call them "the first people", claiming that their suffering at the claws of Rovagug was the start of the war between him and the other gods. Genies are said to have come into being with the first act of creation. 2 Geniekind is a term used to describe the plethora of genies. 1 Other, lesser genie races exist, including the diminutive zhyen and malignant black jinn. The five best known races of genies are djinn (of elemental air), ifrit/efreet (of elemental fire), marid (of elemental water), shaitan (of elemental earth), and jann (composed of all elements, and native to the Material Plane). A genie (also known as jinni, plural jinn) is an outsider native to one of the Elemental Planes, and often composed primarily of elemental material. ![]()
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