Janni

## Common Janni

Janni naturally take the shape of elven like humanoids with blue skin and black hair. Their ears often point directly outward rather than upward.

### Origins

The Aether

The Janni people are an enigma. They live in cities of polished gold in an Alterworld. They cloth themselves in expensive garbs and their physique is reminiscent of an elf, albeit thinner and blue skinned. Yet the similarities between these spirits and the mortals of Andrasa end there as the Janni are wildly different in areas of intelligence. Their attention spans and fixation on gold or things that sparkle brings to mind the mentality of an animal. They lack ambition, basic common sense and foresight. It is often said that the Janni's defining feature is their weak wills. They are easily manipulated, captured, tricked or controlled because nothing drives them to improve their situation. They hold no true desires of their own, and take pleasure in helping others. This desire to help paired with their innate and unconditional pacifism and docility that makes them the perfect servant for a Conjurer.

Despite their alterworld being distant from the inner circle, Janni summoning is often one of the first skills taught to Conjurers, as failing to bind one to a contract rarely has any real consequences and allows for a safe practice of the basics of conjuration. A conjurer often keeps their first Janni in the form of a ring as a keepsake from their training.

## Abilties

### **Gold Empowerment**

The Janni possess a love for gold and riches. They enjoy gemstones of all varieties, but gold is the only metal that takes their interest. They use it to fashion jewelry and other accessories. The Janni hold a belief that amassing gold will make them stronger, and the hierarchy of Janni society, with grand Janni clearly possessing far more gold than the others, does not dispute this idea. Many scholars hold the theory that much like how gold and gemstones make for excellent catalysts for encahnting, or reality indices, so too do these materials help the Janni's innate magical talents. Gold and Gemstones are also coincidentally the only things the Janni are incapable of replicating with their magic.

There is a research study currently underway attempting to prove a link between a Janni's physical proportions to the amount of gold worn.

### **Innate Spellcraft**

The Janni are utterly unique in the multiverse in their ignorant mastery of the arcane. Any other being, whether mortal or planar in nature, is fully aware of their spellcraft and know that mastery comes from great practice. The Janni are the exception to this, able to alter reality with powerful magic, subconsciously. With mere thoughts they are able to conjure effects more powerful than most wizards can do in a ritual. If it were not for their docility and other strange quirks, the Janni would easily be one of the strongest beings in the multiverse.

### **Loyal Servitude**

The Janni are a race who lives to serve, they literally lack the ability to access to their magic unless it is in order to help someone else achieve a goal or desire. This limitation used to be thought to be entirely imaginary. That the Janni COULD use their magic as they pleased, but their comfort with the status quo, and lack of ambition simply gave them no reason to use it. This theory has since become less popular as the population of Aferitti has grown, and people have realized that despite their change in demeanor and intense desire for revenge, the Aferitti are still dependent on commands from a mortal in order to access the true scope of their powers.

### **Paradoxical Mortality**

The Janni are planar beings, and like all planar beings, their bodies are composed from essence, but unlike other beings, the Janni feel a need to eat, sleep and breath. Failing to do these things does not kill the Janni, but fills them with an intense discomfort. Additionally, Janni lack a quality shared by all planar entities, which is an amorphous form. While devils, demons, and other spirits are known for their constant shifting and changing of shapes or features, the Janni always hold the same body and shape, and seem to identify each other based on appearance, much like mortals do.

These bizarre quirks often help aid the theory that the Janni are not the orginal inhabitants of the Aether, rather that they were designed by the Alterworlds true inhabitants to serve. Where these supposed "true inhabitants" reside now is a mystery that leaves most uncomfortable.

## Variants

### **Grand Janni (D'Jinn)**

There are those in the world of the Aether who are known as D'Jinn. Telling a D'Jinn apart from a normal Janni can be difficult, because at first glance the only noticeable difference is the D'Jinns clothes. They are dressed entirely in gold and fine jewelry. This simple difference is the only outward indicator of a far more powerful being￼ capable of altering reality on a whim. There are even rumors that such D'Jinn may even possess intellect on par with that of any other mortal.

### **Broken Janni (Aferitti)**

When a Janni is used up of outlived its usefulness, it is considered wise to release them from their contract. When a conjurer pushes a Janni too far, there is a risk to do permanent damage to them. The Broken Janni loses its docile nature and becomes wildly aggressive. Its strength and magic improve to surpass even that of grand Janni, but they become violent and cruel in nature. While it is wise to release a Janni before it undergoes such a transformation, if one does occur it should be noted that course of action is no longer safe. A broken Janni should never be released, for fear of another conjurer summoning it by mistake. Rather the broken Janni should be kept in its container and the container disposed of where nobody can find it. Should a broken Janni become freed, it will seek out its abuser and exact revenge on them in cruel and twisted ways, some go so far as to curse the conjurer's family for generations to come.