Editing Genie (section)

=[[Dungeons & Dragons]]=
[[File:Female Efreet PF.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A Pathfinder take on the Efreet.]]

Genies are one of the "big names" for the [[Elemental Planes]]; being the most human-like in appearance and intelligence, they present a "face" for interactions both positive and negative that the more primordial elementals lack. There are four species of genie, one for each of the four major elements: [[Djinn]] (air), [[Efreet]] (fire), [[Dao]] (earth), and [[Marid]] (water); some editions also have a fifth, the [[Jann]], comprised of all four elements and thus needing to spend most of their time on the Prime Material. Although very different in personality, the various types each share certain traits, including polyamory (except the Jann) and large libidos, vaguely Middle Eastern cultures, and the ability to grant wishes with a laundry list of restrictions (notably, they can't grant wishes for themselves or other genies, and while they can grant one wish a day they can't grant another wish to the ''same'' creature until a very long period of time has passed).

Of these four (to five) races, it has always been the Djinn and the Efreet who have stuck out the most in the D&D player's mind. These two races have very clear archetypes; djinni are the "friendly leaning but dangerous if made moody" genies, whilst efreeti are the "obviously evil genies". In comparison, dao tend to boil down to "efreeti with earth powers and a lot more greed for gold and gems", whilst marids tend to boil down to "djinni with water powers, an even more fickle attitude, and a barrowload of extra ego". Jann, being both the weakest type of genie and the one type native to the Prime Material and thus more likely to be met in person on your travels than found in a magic item, come across more as a race of desert nomads with magic than "proper" genies.

In fact, it got to the point that 4e originally left those three races out; it wasn't until an article in [[Dungeon Magazine]] #199 that the dao and marids both returned to 4th edition (the Jann could suck it). And they were still pretty much identical to their classic depictions; dao were avaricious, evil, giant earth-genies obsessed with mineral wealth, and marids were arrogant, flamboyant, adventurous water genies who all to the last claimed a noble title. Whether this was deliberate - a lot of the later 4e Dungeon & Dragon magazine articles tended towards bringing back older lore - or was just a sign that the grid-filling nature of D&D genies robs even the best authors of their creativity, who can say?

[[Al-Qadim]], the "Arabian Nights" mini-setting for the [[Forgotten Realms]], placed a lot of emphasis on genies, naturally. It created the "[[Tasked Genie]]" designation, a variety of lesser genies specially molded to fulfill certain tasks until they had become entirely new species revolving around that task (specific strains: Administrator, Architect/Builder, Artist, Deceiver, Guardian, Harim Servant, Herdsman, Messenger, Miner, Oathbinder, Slayer, Warmonger and Winemaker). It created the [[Markeen]], or "Genie Double", a genie cursed to be the exact physical replica of a mortal, and it introduced the [[Sha'ir]] class; a [[Wizard]] variant that drew its powers from the service of a minor allied genie called a gen.

Genies are one of the elementals most likely to produce [[genasi]] offspring, though [[Pathfinder]] also has a specific "genie-born" hybrid, the [[Suli]].

3.5's Tome of Magic introduced a new breed of genie; the [[Khayal]], a "darkness elemental" genie native to the [[Plane of Shadow]]. Master wielders of shadow magic, khayal are distinguished by their dark, dusky-gray skin and their utter-black eyes, which appear more like night-filled holes in their skull than anything human-like. If one can look past that, they otherwise look like slightly taller than average humans. They regard the other elemental genies with varying levels of antipathy, but have an especial hatred for jann. Looking down on all other races, khayal culture revolves around deciving and manipulating them - although they are never anything but scrupulously honest with each other. Tradition holds that anyone who can irrefutably prove they have been lied to by a khayal is owed a single task from that genie in recompense, but they don't always live up to this. They have been known to assist mortals of their own volition, either out of mutual need or due to being impressed at the mortal's deceitfulness, but they display archetypical genie arrogance when they do.

3.5 also gave us the Frostfell sourcebook, and with it, the [[Qorrashi]], who were associated with the Paraelemental Plane of Ice, but they only got an average-size soucebook bestiary-level description, so there's not much to say about them other than that they exist.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
2e Dao (MM).gif|2e Dao
2e Djinni (MM).gif|2e Djinni
efreeti MM 2e.png|2e efreeti
marid MM 2e.png|2e marid
2e Dao Female (LoF).png|2e Female Dao
2e Djinni Female (LoF).png|2e Female Djinni
2e Efreet Female (LoF).png|2e Female Efreet
2e Marid Female (LoF).png|2e Female Marid
2e Dao Male (LoF).png
2e Djinni Male (LoF).png
2e Efreet Male (LoF).png
2e Marid Male (LoF).png
2e Janni Female (LoF).png
2e Janni Male (LoF).png
noble dao MC Al-Qadim.png|Noble Dao
noble djinn MC Al-Qadim.jpg|Noble Djinni
noble efreet MC Al-Qadim.png|Noble Efreeti
noble marid MC Al-Qadim.jpg|Noble Marid
Djinn & Efreeti 3E.jpg|3e Djinn & Efreeti
3e Dao and Marid.png|3e Dao and Marid
Qorrashi.jpg|Qorrashi
Khayal.jpg|Khayal
4e Dao.png|4e Dao
4e Marid.png|4e Marid
4e Djinn Skylord.png|4e Djinn
4e Djinn Stormsword.png
4e Djinn Thunderer.png
4e Djinn Windbow.png
4e Efreeti.png|4e Efreeti
4e Efreet Sultan of Brass.png|4e Efreeti Sultan of Brass
Dao-5e.png|5e Dao
Djinn5E.PNG.png|5e Djinn
Efreeti-5e.png|5e Efreeti
Marid-5e.jpg|5e Marid
</gallery>
===Tasked Genies===
<gallery>
artist genie MC Al-Qadim.png|Artist Genie
builder genie MC Al-Qadim.jpg|Builder Genie
guardian genie MC Al-Qadim.png|Guardian Genie
herdsman genie MC Al-Qadim.jpg|Herdsman Genie
slayer genie MC Al-Qadim.png|Slayer Genie
warmonger genie MC Al-Qadim.png|Warmonger Genie
winemaker genie MC Al-Qadim.jpg|Winemaker Genie
administrator genie City of Delights.png|Administrator Genie
administrator genie MCAV1.jpg
deceiver genie ALQ2.png|Deceiver Genie
deceiver genie MCAV1.jpg
harim servant genie City of Delights.png|Harim Servant Genie
harim servant genie MCAV1.jpg
messenger genie ALQ4.png|Messenger Genie
messenger genie MCAV1.jpg
miner genie ALQ4.png|Miner Genie
miner genie MCAV1.jpg
oathbinder genie ALQ2.png|Oathbinder Genie
oathbinder genie MCAV1.jpg
</gallery>