So wtf is a Ifrit…
The Ifrit are described in myth as creatures that are more powerful than men and spirits, but who are beneath devils and angels in power.
An ifrit is an enormous winged creature of smoke, either male or female, who lives underground and frequents ruins. Ifrits live in a society structured along ancient Arab tribal lines, complete with kings, tribes, and clans. They generally marry one another, but they can also marry humans.
Ifrit were feared because in addition to being stronger, faster and able to master magic as their birth right, they were immune to weapons and steel. Only magic, used properly by holy men, wizards, sorcerers or warlocks could harm the Ifrit and in the end subjugate it to the will of humans. It was only through magic that an Ifrit could be bound to servitude, though when you made wishes you had to be very, very specific as an Ifrit would often follow the letter of the command rather than the spirit of it. One myth about the Ifrit that came about after they’d been villified and the boundary between the good and bad eliminated, was that Ifrit were generated from the blood of murder victims, and that to prevent the Ifrit from rising you would drive an unused nail through the pool of blood.
I smell a Lafayette show down…
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