Efreeti

Efreeti

Species	hemitheioc
No. Appearing	1
Behaviour	servant
Range	Astral, Gehenna
Size	12 ft. tall
Weight	1,400 lbs.
Intelligence	11
Armour Class	2
Hit Dice	10
Action Points	6
Max. Stride	14
THAC0	15
Hp/Die	d12
Attack Forms	sword
Damage	3–24
Special Attacks	create illusion, enlarge, gaseous form, immune to fire, invisibility, polymorph, produce flame, pyrotechnics, wall of fire, wish

Efreeti, also ifrit, efreet or affreet, are supernatural beings associated with djinni, but efreeti are described within Islamic texts as "rebellious" among that number. Efreeti dwell in the City of Brass, in the Land of Jahannam upon the rim of Gehenna, separated from Hades by the River Phlegethon. In appearance they are an enormous horned creature, either male or female, with a body comprised of smoke and fire. They are powerful, formidable beings who despise humanoid races and fear the power of Allah and the Angels. The gate between Gehenna and the astral plane is defended by the Archangel Gabriel.

Behaviour

Generally ruthless and wicked, efreeti live in tribal groups that compete viciously for control over Jahannam, the opportunity to punish the deserving and for personal status among their peers.

Blood feuds between tribes of efreeti have continued for millennia, with defeated individuals condemned to centuries of servitude before they're able to re-incorporate and take their place in the tribe once again. Thus conflict and hatred are unrelenting among their number.

Summoning

Because they are imprisoned in their lands, an efreeti can be encountered elsewhere only through being summoned by means of dweomercraft or a magical device.

This is commonly done by corrupt persons without concern for the world, in order to receive a single wish from the efreeti in exchange for letting it loose upon the Prime Material Plane. This is the solitary price the efreeti asks; and conjurers, unconcerned with the consequences of this, freely grant the request.

Once the efreeti is free, the efreeti takes great pains to avoid detection for as long as it can, while visiting its resentment upon devout Moslems, setting brother against brother and committing other forms of similar wickedness. Once learning of the efreeti's existence, bands of Earthly forces will gather together to banish the creature, though this often requires the intervention of angels and archangels.

The invocation of an efreeti is a form of black magic and is considered sacrilege among many faiths. Often such a person is hunted down and punished, despite what they may have received from the efreeti, for the act of releasing the being on the world.

Advantages

An efreeti cannot grant it's own wish, nor the wish of any other efreeti. It can only satisfy the wishes of other creatures. However, among its abilities, it is able to perform the following abilities at will: invisibility, assume gaseous form, enlarge, polymorph self or others, create an illusion or create a wall of fire. From its own body, an efreeti is able to likewise produce flame and produce pyrotechnics.

Efreeti are naturally immune to fire and heat effects.

The sword wielded by an Efreeti is enormous and is fundamentally magic, but it has no bonuses to hit.

See Bestiary