Genies

Glued to their vessels, these are beings of incredable power! But, more often then not, they are obedient wish granters to the ones who have the lamp. However, within them, is a source of unlimited magical possibilities, for good or for worse.

## History

One would think that they originated during the time of the egyptain empire, but in actuallity, they emerged during the mayan times, but came into existance from a group of them moving away from the Mayans.

Thousands of years ago, when the world was at more simpler times, there lived a group of people who lived in the jungle with temples all around them. Every month, they would have a sacrifice to appeal to a sun god in order for the people to prosper more. For the longest time, it seemed to have worked... until so much went wrong.

The First month, they were visited by barbarians, the next their crops failed to grow, same as the next month and same as the next, all the way to 6 months. They soon grew angry over the 'luck' they were having, planning to dethrone their so-called leaders.

But then, a female desended from the stars in order to help them. She made their crops grew, rebuild their homes, and cured any of the ill. At first, some of the people attacked her, but all of the weapons they used on her broke as soon as they connected with the skin, making them soon bow out of fear. After comforting the people, she let 3 people learn her ways in private. After a year, it was time for her to go, but before she left she said: "In order to keep your land protected, you must sacrifice one of your own to become a dijnn," and then leaving, only mentioning to the 3 people now dubbed Guardians to have her judge the new genies.

After that day, every year they select one of their people (age 14-27 usually) to become a genie to keep their place prospering. Every 2 years, they would train a teen to become a Guardian, after one is accepted as a guardian, they are given immortality, so they may forever watch over the things they have created.

The only reason why the civilization fell is due to the place becoming too relaxed from the lack of conflict coming at them. While at the same time using up too much of the Goddess's magic with so many women turned genies, and a screw up in the Genie ritual, making the goddess predict misfortune coming their way. And it did, leading to the sealing of the temple, the slaughter of innocent people, the stealing of some of the genies, and the fall of the place they use to call home. Currently, the Guardians no longer train anyone and only search the globe to find any genies they could, plus any Rouge and corrupt ones.

## Anatomy

Genies do not need sleep, food or water to stay alive (some even argue oxygen is not needed for the majority of them), even if they may think they do. They are, and have always been, immortal servants glued to their vessels. The vessels are often reenforced bottles or lamps, ones that have a small long hole leading to a wider metal body that can only be accessed through the hole. Once a genie is connected to the vessel, they are often given the ability to not shatter against many things, from bullets to meteors, they do not break against these things. Even when a genie is freed, they are still kept the invincible-ness to them, the Guardians have used these left over vessels to melt down and forge into their "Immortal Slayer" weapons (with a few other ingredients in the forging process)

Because all of the spells to change one into a genie stems from the original Ancient type, almost all genies are the same. Their bodies are able to withstand extreme forces or pressure thanks to their immortal bodies, with their tails covering up the hole and hollowed area that one could see below their belts before the Genie ritual. Because the ritual uses clay pottery figures as the vessels for the souls, all of the genies bodies have this clay durability against "Immortal Slayer" weapons, though can be fixed by filling the cracks and holes with moldable clay; even with this, their bodies still feel and look human, even without their legs. Right in the center is a human heart attached to carvings within the genies, making their souls tied to the new clay figures. If that is destroyed by the "Immortal Slayer" weapons, the genie dies and the bodies return to their clay figure state but in the last pose they were in before the change.

## Types

It would be easy to mistake that all genies are the same types, but you would be wrong there. Because of the varierty of ways one can turn into a genie, there have been labels for the ones that have changed in different ways.

### Ancient

The first genies to appear and are the most powerful of them all, the only way one can become a ancient genie is by the ritual the Guardians did in the past, one that is not only permanent, but also stuck to their vessels. Their freedom is not allowed nor easily obtainable thanks to the ritual. Currently, there are no other ways one can become a Ancient genie.

### Modern

The most common ones, though not as powerful as Ancient Genies, though that might be more beneficial in the long run. Because of the lack of magical power compared to the one above, the wish to free one is allowed but the ability to abuse the 3 wish per master rule is less restricted and is open for loopholes. How one is turned into them is mainly by potions and spells, originally just potions as it was easier to have their bodies change. But all are just a knockoff of the original ritual in someway shape or form, able to replicate it and change their bodies exactly, but can never captured the original raw power.

### Digital

Created via programming and first appearing in 1990's, they are consider stronger than Bootlegs due to being able to manipulate any file and able to escape the computer via other files, cables, USBs and the internet. Due to this, most to all of them are locked/stored away.

### Bootleg

Known as the weakest and first appearing in the 1960's, one is created just with magic with no other person used to make the genie. Though, that means the Genie can only do spells related to what was used to create them.

### Flame/Reincarnation

This is considered the most disrespectful out of all the genie types, their power is more along the lines of a Modern genie though a tad weaker, but the reason for their immersion is the one tha makes them the most disconnected from Modern. It involves the use of one's ashes to recreate the person who has died into a genie, regardless of them being dead already, and their vessel becomes the container the ashes were kept in (or one must be provided in order for it to work). Because of this, those who do know about genies see this as incredably disrespectful to deny people their final rest in order to be a wish granting slave, and hiding them isn't a good option due to their exclusive fire tails.
How one becomes a Flame/Reincarnation Genie is by having a dead loved one's ashes placed into a genie potion's bottle while the ashes are still warm. Most of the time, this is done out of despiration to keep the loved one still with them... and often causes the genie to have depression.