Djinn

Mithra †

Atar †

Hvar Ksata †

Rashnu †

Verethragna †

Tishtrya †

Haoma †

Vayu †

Zorvan †

Angra Mainyu †

The **Djinn** are a humanoid alien species originating from the Djinn Homeworld, a planet in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. Six thousand years ago, they crash landed on Earth while on route to another planet, where they subsequently were infected by the same virus that gave humans the secondary genders/designations over seventy thousand years ago. But the virus, unlike with humans, also gave them powers and long lives, much longer than the natural lifetimes of their species.

Because they were infected by the virus, the Djinn almost unilaterally decided that they could not return to their home world. The only dissenter among them was Angra Mainyu, who was killed in the ensuing fight. Now choosing to be stuck on Earth, the remaining members of the Djinn decided to help out humanity with their powers, which, along with their long lives, led to them being viewed as gods and then all but Ahura Mazda as various aspects of him in the Zoroastrian religion.

After the fall of the Sasanian Empire (651 AD), all of the remaining original members of the Djinn, except for Anahita, were killed off one by one. Anahita was the last one of them living by the time that she was captured by the Ten Rings. Centuries later and after being taken from the original Ten Rings by what would become Zadran's Ten Rings, she was later killed herself on April 15th, 2008. Before she died, however, due to how her powers, repressed by the set of handcuffs the leader of the Ten Rings had forced on her, sent Tony Stark into what would have otherwise been a perpetual heat since the same handcuffs meant she could not stop his heat with her powers, Anahita shared Tony's heat with him, with the result of him getting pregnant. Thus, while all of the original members of the Djinn are gone, there is one (unborn) member that remains in the form of their half-Djinn, half-human child.

Although not much is known about the other original members of the Djinn besides Anahita, including their designations, the original members of the Djinn are as follows:

* **Ahura Mazda †:** King of the Gods and the God of the Sky and Wisdom; brother of Anahita and Mithra, father of Atar
* **Anahita †:** Goddess of Fertility, Health, Water, Wisdom, and War; sister of Ahura Mazda and Mithra, aunt of Atar
* **Mithra †:** God of Light, Justice, Oaths, and Truth; brother of Ahura Mazda and Anahita, uncle of Atar
* **Atar †:** God of Fire; son of Ahura Mazda, nephew of Anahita and Mithra
* **Hvar Ksata †:** God of the Sun
* **Rashnu †:** God of the Dead
* **Verethragna †:** God of War
* **Tishtrya †:** God of Agriculture and Rainfall
* **Haoma †:** God of Harvest, Health, Strength, and Vitality
* **Vayu †:** God of the Wind
* **Zorvan †:** God of Time
* **Angra Mainyu †:** God of Evil, Chaos, and Destruction

One note about the name of the Djinn, however: while the Djinn view this name as theirs, Anahita does acknowledge in chapter 3 of *black and gold* that the name could be used for any species that could be described by the name by humans. But for the purposes of this series, unless stated otherwise, when speaking of the Djinn, this group is the one being referred to.