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    Patrick McCormick
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    Genies

    Neil Barnes wrote:

    > I'm curious to see
    > what people think.
    >
    > Any ideas?
    >
    > (And before anyone asks, I make a regular habit of doing things in my
    > campaign before I think them through. :)

    Well, I don't see any reason why genies should be changed in any way for
    Birthright. It sounds like you want them to stay the way they are.

    If you did want to change something, perhaps the genie isn't really a true
    genie, but more like a curse ersheighlin (

  2. #2
    Neil Barnes
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    Genies

    On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Patrick McCormick wrote:
    > Well, I don't see any reason why genies should be changed in any way for
    > Birthright. It sounds like you want them to stay the way they are.

    I want them changed a bit - not enough to loose the Arabian flavour,
    but enough to give them a slightly new spin.

    > If you did want to change something, perhaps the genie isn't really a true
    > genie, but more like a curse ersheighlin ( Who knows, maybe that is similar to how genies were meant to be created in
    > general (without the blood thing of course).

    I seem to remember that in (unofficial) Islamic cosmology Genies are
    fallen angels who rebelled with Iblis out of jealousy of humans. There's
    no exact distinction between dealing with Genies and demons, and an
    orthodox Muslim wouldn't do either. In general Genies are less
    Malevolent than Demons, being more Malicious. A genie would tend to
    twist wishes in uncomfortable rather than fatal ways I suppose.

    > If you could explain more about what kind of genie it is, maybe I could help
    > you more.

    Well, it's pretty much a Djinn.

    Here's my thoughts so far:

    Genies/ Djinni/ Ifrits are elemental spirits that are partially bound
    the Cerilia after being exiled from their home planes for some
    unspecified reason. (Within the overarching AD&D cosmology assume that
    they're normal Genie-kind exiled from the Elemental planes.)

    They can only survive in places of great magical power. Thus they either
    inhabit distant out of the way places such as the mountains of the
    Drocandragh, (essentially only provinces with a source rating of 7 or
    above) or magic items, with a strong elemental connection. Many of these
    items were created by Ibrahim el-Arassi (an ancestor of the saviour of
    Khinasi) as prisons for the more malevolent amongst the genies, whom he
    bound into the items.

    They can be compelled to serve the owner of a Genie Prison, carrying out
    three tasks. While unable to grant wishes, they can draw upon their
    quite considerable powers to do so (since this is the only chance bound
    genies get to use their abilities, they're actually quite eager to carry
    out tasks for their masters, even if they're not too happy about
    serving.)

    Each genie is tied to one of the four elements, and genies of Eath & air
    are more skilled at creating, while fire & water genies are more skilled
    at destroying things. However each genie can still perform most forms of
    task, it's just that they'll be less effective at tasks outside their
    areas of speciality.

    Genies can do lots of things, including possessing the ability to travel
    instantaneously just about anywhere, detect magical energies and a few
    other titbits.

    Genie tasks cannot change anything about a person - they cannot increase
    stats, provide invulnerability or anything else.

    Umm. Stats later, maybe.

    neil

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