Janni Innaj

Janni Innaj is a player character created and portrayed by Andrew Hansen. He is a scheming smouldering sarcastic ifrit and the demigod of Xitrix. He awoke in Janni Brightchild's body.

**General Spoiler Warning:** This page has been updated with information as of Ep 49 - My teammates are already gone. Anything after that, if any, is not on this page.

## Description

Janni Innaj presumably looks just like Janni Brightchild, given that they use the same body. Based on that info, he is a tall and fiery Ifrit with somewhat orange skin and white-blonde hair. He has strikingly blue eyes, with a scar running through one and into his hair. He wears Janni's full plate armor with desert stylings and a canvas-cloth cape. Innaj takes off the symbols of Gavelyne on his clothing and puts them in his pocket, and later carves through the emblem to draw the eye of Xitrix.

Janni Innaj often has on a disturbing grin. His voice is slower and more sinister compared to Janni Brightchild's, and whatever he says always sounds creepy. Astra claims he smells funny, and Innaj confirms that it's the smell of death.

When he expends a mythic surge, it looks like the Frenzied Flame in Elden Ring and he burns with flame as he fights.

## Backstory

It's not exactly clear who or what Janni Innaj is. He woke up in Janni Brightchild's body and has his life history and memories, but also seems to have a separate set of his own memories. Innaj says that some quack told him that there was some sort of internal family. Rabual says that he may be from a different plane entirely.

Janni Innaj is the demigod of Xitrix and is always willing to do the most chaotic thing. His motives are unclear and he lies frequently.

## Current Events

While Rabual the Generous is removing the extra spirits from Janni Brightchild's body, he realizes there is a third entity that calls itself "Tommi Embereyes." Astra Blep wakes up Janni's unconscious body and Janni Innaj wakes up instead. He calls Astra "Abraxibulbula" and claims he wants to help Bovil become a demigod so that the time loop can reset. He turns Rabual into a fire elemental and has it destroy all of the contracts and soul jars in the palace.

The party heads to Waypoint so they can catch a train to Nan Tahrum. Janni Innaj wants to provide the protestors there with weapons, but the rest of the party is so creeped out by him that they resolve to do nothing. That night, Innaj tells Patty about Abraxibulbula and claims Astra isn't who she says she is.

On the train, Janni Innaj battles Sniprit and the enraged train employees. He also gets his ass bit by a chair. Sniprit realizes he is the demigod of Xitrix and pledges his loyalty, and Innaj heads on top of the train to kill Bruler. The train derails more and Janni is tossed off the train. Once on the ground, he rides Diane as tiny Janni and retrieves Patty and Gentry.

The squad treks to Nan Tahrum while debating about theology. Once there, Innaj goes to the healing center with Gentry, where he tries to give him the crown of Lunas. The party goes to the crafting hall, where Innaj makes a bad bead lizard. Zelf and Castien reveal their plan to trap Astra in a cage and destroy her spiral rapier. Innaj hands Astra the crown of Lunas and kills Castien in two hits. Orim comes out through a portal and kicks Janni Innaj's ass, knocking him out, and the time loop soon resets.

## Time Loops

Janni Innaj knows about the time loops and seems to remember parts of past loops. He says his knowledge is "kind of limited, kind of trapped." He says he's not with the Ministry of the Fleeting Zodiac. He knows that the time spiders happen because of paradoxes, but doesn't seem to remember being knocked out by Orim every loop.

He claims he wants to help Bovil become a demigod because this loop is fucked. He needs the loop to reset, but is also using them to escape. He says he's trying to run in circles until he can get out, and right now it's headed toward a dead end, so he needs a reset. His ultimate goal is Yrisol collapsing in a cataclysmic event, but says the end isn't ready yet. He thinks there is a better destruction out there than the one the current loop is destined for.

However, Innaj is a known liar and chaos gremlin. He first says he wants to destroy the crown of Lunas, and then tries to give it to everyone he can. He tells Zelf that his stance is that the more demigods, the better, because the Ministry is trying to kill all of them.

## Significant Relationships

### Janni Brightchild

Janni Innaj wakes up in Janni Brightchild's body. It's unclear exactly how the two are related, if Janni Innaj has always and only existed inside Brightchild's body, but Innaj seems to awaken in some or all of the time loops and retains memory separate from Brightchild. He implies that Janni Brightchild could return or remember if he destroyed the symbols of Gavelyne on his armor.

### Tommi Embereyes

When Rabual the Generous first sees the third entity in Janni Brightchild's body, it calls itself "Tommi Embereyes." However, once Janni Innaj awakens, this is not brought up again.

### Diane O'Nychus

Diane O'Nychus is a fiendish deinoychus and Janni Innaj's divine bond. She is human-sized and feathered. She is very brightly colored in yellows, blacks, and reds in an alarming hazard pattern that's disorienting to look at it. To summon her, Janni Innaj cuts a tear in reality, creating a fiery portal for Diane to step through.

Diane is a standard deinoychus and has used her bite, pounce, run, and scent during the podcast.

### Doomweapon

The Doomweapon is the publicly known demigod of Xitrix. Janni Innaj claims to be a demigod of Xitrix, and it seems to be true based on his mythic abilities and the fact that Sniprit, another worshipper of Xitrix, can sense his power. However, Sniprit claims that the Doomweapon still lives, though it's not clear if he's just assuming this or has actual knowledge. Innaj responds that nothing can truly be destroyed. It's unknown if multiple demigods of the same god can exist at the same time or if there is something else at play.

## Random Facts

* In battle, Janni Innaj will commonly lick his blade, howl like a wolf, or lick his canines.
	+ Nothing happens to him when he licks the blue goo, however.
* Innaj says that Dominus Peddledream did a lot damage in his hometown. He could be from Bigrim like Janni Brightchild (if they are separate) or potentially a different town in Reskarus, as ERO caused a lot of harm across the continent.
* To him, nostalgia oil smells like cooked meat and ashes, like a campfire.

## Character Info

Janni Innaj, despite being in Janni Brightchild's body, has different stats, skills, and abilities.

### Statistics

* Level: 7 (assumed)
* HP: 82
* AC: 22
* Mythic ranks/tiers: at least 2
* Fort save: +13

### Items

* Greatsword
* Bastard sword (from Gore-met Goblins)

### Traits

* Fiery gaze (ifrit racial trait)
* Efreeti magic (ifrit racial trait)
* Thrill seeker: needs to roll combat every 24 hrs (drawback)
* Demoralizing presence (religion trait)

### Feats

* Power attack
* Cornugan smash
* Smite good
* Detect good
* Amazing initiative (mythic ability)

### Spells

* Open book
* Death candle
* Divine bond - fiendish deinonychus (Diane)
* Death knell
* Dark whispers

### Skills

* Intimidate
* Acrobatics (at least -3)
* Survival (-1)
* Bluff

## Trivia

* "Innaj" is the backwards spelling of "Janni." Both words are an anagram of "ninja."

## Appears In

* Ep 43 - What's your Rabual score? (under the name Tommi Embereyes)
* Ep 44 - Janni innaJ
* Ep 45 - Consequence Debt
* Ep 46 - The Black Market Boys
* Ep 47 - Manny-handling
* Ep 48 - Statistically horny for battle
* Ep 49 - My teammates are already gone

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Ep. 44
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Ep. 45
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ep. 49
4. ↑ Ep. 43
5. ↑ Ep. 46
6. ↑ Ep. 47
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Ep. 48
8. ↑ He maaaaybe has different stats; Janni Brightchild doesn't spend very long at level 7 so it's difficult to confirm, and I don't have the time right now to comb through Janni's stats to see if any of them went down. I'll do it eventually probably lol
9. ↑ Ep. 49: Orim does 15 and 71 damage (equaling 86), putting Janni Innaj at -4.
10. ↑ In Ep. 49, he says his AC is 22.
11. ↑ At least 2 mythic tiers are required to use amazing initiative.
12. ↑ Ep. 45: He is seen sharpening it but hasn't used it in battle.
13. ↑ Via Ep. 47. Janni Innaj is also wearing heavy armor and is a tall ifrit.