Djinn

'Djinn/Jinn or Djinn-born,<ref>“The market district has no oversight.  The Djinn-born are restless.” - Excerpt from Signature 8.7</ref> with Genies being a common anglicization; are a species of Other that are believed to be naturally created from the elements and "divine remnants",<ref name=":0">“Talk to me,” he said.  “What do you smell?”

“Genies,” spoke the elder Ibix brother, without hesitation.

“Genies are a problem,” Jeremy said.  “Plural?  More than one?”

“At least four.”

Genies.  All of the problems a sphinx posed, with a great many of the same capabilities, but sphinxes were created, and genies were natural, born of elements and divine remnants.  A keen eye for the balance and the cosmic makeup of reality, an ability to alter that balance and makeup, and, generally speaking, genies operated on the macro scale.  Moving mountains, so to speak, or building castles in the span of a day.  Hard to use without causing a great deal of alarm among non-practitioners. [...]

“I can hardly believe you need me,” he commented, “All these people.  Even if he has genies and angels.” - Excerpt from Interlude 9</ref> likely fallen or retired Angels that have switched over to being powered by other forces.<ref name=":1">Majnūn Jinn were one of a variety of Jinn, which were some really powerful Others that were once ‘architects of creation’ or angels, but were theorized to have been brought ‘down to Earth’, or they finished their work, started to fade, and ended up bolstered with elementals or other forces.  Then they continued indefinitely, so long as they could keep sustaining themselves on spirits, elementals, incarnate stuff, or whatever.  The Majnūn type were an angry variety that stirred up nightmares and psychosis.  When they worked, they affected whole regions. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref>

They have presence that even non-sapient Others recognize and a fearsome reputation.<ref name=":2">Anyway, I imagine that a lot of the sort of things you don’t want to mess with, like genies, that goblin I just dealt with, they’re human shaped.  So if you stand far enough away, or if you’re dealing with a crowd, you have to wonder.  You hold back. - Excerpt from Execution 13.9</ref><ref name=":3">I could see a figure on the far side of the doors.  Deep brown skin, eyes like  liquid gold, hips wrapped in wispy white cloth that was gossamer-fine.  Genderless.

“Djinn,” Alexis said, breathless.  “Lift.”

The Djinn turned his back, walking away.  It was going to come back, most likely, and it was going to act.

Fuck.

Big and bad enough that the brainless little homunculi were afraid to approach while it was taking point.  The scariest Others that rational individuals steered clear of were steering clear of this thing. - excerpt from Duress 12.5</ref><ref>I glanced at Johannes.  He was rigid, jaw set.

He, I remembered, had a dragon and a giant at his beck and call.  He had genies. - Excerpt from Sine Die 14.10</ref> They can have similar abilities to Sphinxes; a keen eye for the balance and the cosmic makeup of reality, an ability to alter that balance and makeup, however, generally speaking, they are limited to the macro scale - moving mountains, or building castles in the span of a day etc - hard to use without causing alarm among the Innocent.<ref name=":0" /> A presumably elemental genie killed by Barbatorem blew up a parking lot in the process, including a giant;<ref>“Is that a genie?” Paige asked.

“Yeah,” Peter answered for her, his voice hushed.

[...]

They approached the genie.

Eviscerated, the genie was stuck in a standing position.  Hollowed out, chest and stomach torn open, its jaw had split at the chin, as if it had opened its mouth too wide, venting from within.  Its remains were scattered around the open parking lot.  The source of whatever impulse or push had moved the assorted cars.  Scorch marks etched the pavement, leaving sections of it glassy.  There was no blood, no gore, only the shell of a form and signs of an outpouring of energy.

Not a one minute walk away was a giant.  Sitting cross-legged, hands folded in its lap, its shoulders slumped forward, head tilted so it faced the ground.  Even sitting, its head reached as high as the roofs of the two stores on either side of it, each one three floors tall.  The face had burned away, the skull shattered, revealing just how thick the bone was.  Far thicker than a human skull.  The interior of his head was only dark.  The fragments of the skull and wisps of scorched flesh littered the hands, lap, and surrounding pavement. - Excerpt from Judgement 16.6</ref> Jinn that focus on nightmares and psychosis will inflict them on entire regions.<ref name=":1" />

Known examples are basically human-shaped with darker skin then average, but have differences like the common glowing golden eyes, or sexless bodies and impossible clothing.<ref>Sandra was joined by an Other.  A tall Middle-Eastern man with a long black coat trimmed with gold.  He wore sunglasses, but I wasn’t sure the glimmers of light I saw on the lenses weren’t his eyes shining through from beneath, rather than reflections.
[...]
“This concludes my duty to Johannes for this day,” Eblis said, his voice as deep as the rumble of thunder. - Excerpt from Malfeasance 11.4
[...]
“Tall, brown-skinned man with glowing eyes, called Eblis?”

“Djinn.  That’s telling,” Rose mused. - Excerpt from Malfeasance 11.5</ref><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4">And in the large, exaggerated circle, a young woman stood, smaller than the man in the suit.  Her hair was wild, and the headscarf she wore wasn’t capable of containing it, instead becoming something that exaggerated and complemented it.  Her skin was dark, but it was dark like a thundercloud was, her eyes bright and gold, and her body decorated with lines, like she’d been cracked open but had maintained her shape, more of that bright gold light shining from within.  She didn’t wear clothes so much as she had cloth wrapped around her, decorating her like the headscarf did her hair.

All of her was tense, her head, arms, legs, and upper body unmoving, but for hard breathing.  Her hair, headscarf, and the wrapping that was poised around her body were all in constant motion, whipping around in a wind that didn’t leave the circle.
[...]
The young woman in the big circle had floated up to a point midway between the floor and ceiling, her hair and the cloth that bound her extending in length and twisting in the wind around her.  A blindingly bright flash filled the circle, and a rumble shook the building.  Books fell to the floor.

Lucy had to squint to see, and there were still spots in her vision.  She saw Durocher walk past the fleshy-techy Other and over to the circle where the flashes were coming from.  She bent down and wrote something on the floor, some additions to the diagram.

The flashes lost their painful brightness.  The shaking of the building ceased.  Lucy continued to blink away the spots of light in her vision.
[...]
Blasted away in a flash of lightning from a Jannah,
[...]
Verona passed over her phone.  Jannah.  Spirits of the garden, eden, heaven, related to genies. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.1</ref>

Variants & examples

• Unknown
  • Eblis and others
• Jannah <ref name=":4"/> dealing with weather effects, storms and similar
  • The one Bound by Mrs. Durocher
• Majnūn Jinn, dealing with nightmares and madness.<ref name=":1" />

Trivia

• Jinn are unseen spirits similar to those found throughout world folklore, distinct from agents of heaven or hell, angels and devils, they share some traits with man in their ability to choose.
  • Majnūn is an Arabic word for insanity that literally means "possessed by Jinn".<ref>Majnūn (مجنون "crazy", lit. "possessed by Jinn") - Wikipedia</ref>

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