Jinn
Ifrit
Ifrit are demonic Jinn, but they appear as giant, green or red humanoids with apish faces; demonic, inhuman eyes; huge fangs; and three horns. They prefer nakedness to clothing, and their four-toed and four-fingered hands are all surmounted by fearsome claws. Their cruelty is infamous.
Jann
A lesser form of Jinn, not far removed from mortal power.
Jinn
Created from smokeless fire, Jinn are master shape-changers. Usually, they remain invisible and insubstantial, but they can materialize and become visible at will. They most often manifest as large, powerful humans and live in ruins, deserts, by rivers, and other abandoned places. They are powerful spell casters, and they may possess victims, enslave mortal minds, teleport, transmute materials, conjure windstorms or sandstorm, cast glamours and phantasms, and fly. Jinn are mortal, but their lifespans are measured in centuries, not years. They often ride tamed gazelle and ostriches. Jinn have free will, as do humans, so some choose good and some evil. It’s a risky operation, but knowledgeable wizards and magus can imprison Jinn in brass bottles or other, similar containers.
Lamas
This is a benevolent, winged, female jinn who protects mortals.
Marid
This is a super powered variant of an ifrit.
Mugharriboon
This is the hybrid offspring of humans and jinn.
Peris
This Jinn variant possesses a gentle, good-hearted nature, and they oppose ifrit at every turn. As Jinn are measured, Peris are superior magus. In battle, they rely on magic wands of their own manufacture, and they specialize in pyromancy.
Other Creatures
Bird of Paradise
This is a goose-sized, wingless bird without feet that suspends itself from the branches of tall trees with its wire-like tail feathers. It lives on dew. It has a beautiful, pure call, but it moans in anguish if captured. These creatures are collected actively by the wealthy.
Cameleapard
This is a cross between a camel and a leopard. It is camel-sized, with a leopard’s spots and hide, and two curving horns.
Hydrus
These are aggressive, aquatic snakes with a venomous bite that causes its victims to swell up and explode. Hydrus often kill crocodiles by leaping down their throats and eating their way out.
Jaculas
This is a four-foot long winged serpent, thick as a human arm, with batlike wings. They fly well, and may also hover.
Karkadann
These are huge, gray, wolf-like beasts with searing red eyes, tusks protruding from their lower jaws, a single, black horn mounted between its ears, and a smaller curved horn from its snout. It is solitary, very aggressive, and exceedingly hard to kill. Not only may the Karkadann savage a victim with its jaws, but it may employ its many horns to gore opponents. Strangely enough, a karkadann may be calmed to into docility by the ringdove’s song; if one lands on the beast's horn, the karkadann will remain motionless until the bird flies away.
Krokodil
Perhaps part dragon, part crocodile, this monster is a thirty- to fifty-feet long, giant crocodile. Besides its size, it may be identified by its brightly colored hide, which is never green or brown.
Lympago
This is a hybrid man-lion, with a lion’s head, claws, and tail, but a humanoid body. Normally they have animal intelligence, but some have been reported to be of human intellect and able to speak human tongues. Like natural lions, they are ambush killers, with powerful sprinting and vertebrae rending bites.
Man-Scorpion
Once more common, these humanoids have scorpion heads, pinchers, and long, lightning-fast scorpion tails. Their venom is as deadly as that of their namesakes, and they possess low-level animal intelligence. They are sometimes magikally bound to locations and used as guards.
Mi’Raj
This creature appears as a pony-sized, yellow hare with baleful red eyes. From its head grows a single, needle-sharp, black horn. The mi’raj can leap and impale a victim with substantial force. Other animals flee from its advance.
Pichichi
Most likely extinct, this was a race of timid, 2' tall humans.
Rukh/Roc
The Rukh is a bird of such magnitude that it blots out Salearr. This mega-avian rarely lands, and it controls winds, lightning, and storms. It is eagle-shaped, but with a 90' wingspread and feathers twelve paces long. It has a taste for elephants, which it kills by snatching from the earth then dropping them to the ground from on high.
Serpent Noble
These rare and unusual creatures appear as crystalline cobras with human faces. They are wise, prophetic, masters of magic, and very poisonous. They will converse with humans for as long as it pleases them, but kill them as soon as threatened.
Shadavar
This creature is antelope-like, but with a single, hollow horn rising from its forehead. This horn is branched with many smaller branches, and when they catch the wind they resonate with haunting melodies that enrapture everyone within hearing radius. Then, the shadavar devours its helpless, unresisting audience.
Si’Lat
These are dreaded female ghouls. They are shape-changers, but in every form they have ass hooves for feet. They are killed with a single blow, but the second blow reanimates them, and each additional blow they sustain makes them stronger.
Simurgh
A bejeweled bird, about the size of an eagle, with golden and silver feathers. It speaks and comprehends all languages, knows the past, present, and future, and possesses great wisdom. Its touch is said to heal all wounds, diseases, and ailments of any kind. Simurghs nest in the mountains, but royals often keep these enlightened avians in their palaces in advisory capacities.
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