Editing Efreet (section)

==World Axis==
Efreet of the World Axis are... pretty much the same as their counterparts in the Great Wheel! What can we say, it's an obvious winning formula? The "evil merchant princes" aspect of efreet society is played up in this version, however, with more emphasis on the efreet being planar movers and shakers - with its indigenous temperature lowered from "lethal save at the efreeti's whims" to "scorching hot summer's day", the City of Brass is also considerably more important in this cosmology, being one of ''the'' big planar trade hubs of the World Axis. They are most famous for having mastered (they claim created, but the [[djinn]] argue otherwise) the mystical lore of ''al-buraj'', a complex blend of philosophy, mathematics and drug-fueled spiritualism that is the most reliably way for beings to charge navigable paths through the ever-shifting plane.

The precise origins of the efreet? Nobody actually knows. Theories include being the archetypal "fire race" of the multiverse (thus, other fiery creatures, including [[fiend]]s, are merely copying the efreet), being yet another fiery creation of the [[Archomental|Primordials]], being descendants of rebellious [[devil]]s, being the creations of a god that defected to the side of the primordials, or even being the fruit of a forbidden love betwixt god and primordial.

One notable if minor lore change between the cosmologies is that the efreeti Grand Sultan in the World Axis is no longer Marrake al-Sidan al-Hariq ben Lazan (don't be ashamed if you don't know that name; it literally only appeared the once in AD&D), but a young up-and-comer named Bashamgurda, who took the throne about 400 years ago. Ironically, Bashamgurda would go on to be slain by a band of adventurers late in the [[Scales of War]] adventure path, being replaced by a general named Estumishu... although the adventure even consistently misspells his name as "Bashumgarda". Precisely why the name was changed, given so much else about the City of Brass writeup in 4e was taken from 3e's Planar Handbook, which was the only planar sourcebook to reuse that info from [[Al-Qadim]], is a mystery. Perhaps it was to cement that the World Axis is a different cosmology to the Great Wheel. Maybe it was because "Marrake al-Sidan al-Hariq ben Lazan" was deemed too stupid and/or offensively 90s to be reused. Maybe WotC just figured nobody would care, since the name literally only appeared in two sourcebooks across two editions. Whatever the reason, it is what it is, and the change was made very early in the Axis' creation, since Bashamgurda was namedropped in the "Worlds & Monsters" edition previous splat.

Another, more major change, is that the efreet of the Axis no longer have any real rivalry with the [[marid]]s - oh, the two races still despise each other, because the marids hate slavery, but they just don't focus on each other all that much. The real enmity in the Axis is between efreet and [[djinn]]; the two have been clashing for position of the "dominant" elemental race since the dawn of history, and it's rumored that it was the efreet who came to the gods with the secret of binding djinn into physical vessels, which has resulted in the near-collapse of djinni civilization. Naturally, the djinn want revenge.

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