Muslim supernatural beings

Usage examples of genies.

A mighty descendant of genies communed with dead ancestors and distant gods.

Efreet statues supported iron braziers where crabs boiled and peppers sizzled, oathbinder genies frowned from building-spanning mosaics overlooking the market's transactions, marids clung to high corners as gargoyle waterspouts, harim servant genies glared from doorknockers, even noble djinn swung as string puppets from the kiosks of toymakers.

Memnon's efreet armies had burned down forests so Shanatar's dwarves might build a city in his name, and in that city, genies were painted and etched everywhere.

Bazaar goods proved that Calimshan truly was the land of sand and silks, jewels and genies, slaves and slain rivals.

They helped the High Mage Pharos fuse the genies into the Great Red Crystal that still hovers in the air.

Greatest of ancient genies, Calim came from the far south to the peninsula now called Calimshan in his celebrated Great Arrival.

Among them, in one barren, sandswept valley, an army of minor genies and their human and nonญhuman slaves labored for years to fashion a city called by some "Calim's Cradle" and others "the College," for Cursrah served a sole purpose: to record the accomplishments of Faerun's greatest genie, Calim.

Our genies will never forsake Cursrah, no more than our other sprightly beings, for they glory in serving Calim's Cradle.

Cursrah had been founded by the greatest of genies, built by lesser genies and genie slaves, and still employed two or three carefully bound to their tasks or habitats.

No doubt the college had extra genies bottled up and stored on shelves.

To strike a descendant of genies, someone practically a demigod, would offend the gods themselves.

Your father, bearing the blood of genies, consults our ancestors and the very gods to foretell the future and divine our destiny.

She was uncertain if genies attended prayers, as gods were wont to do, but she'd try anyway.

Had genies and bakkals, way back at the city's founding, envisioned and planned for its downfall?

Though most of the staff spoke understandable, hideously accented French, most of the thirty or so genies with whom the de Nostri were sharing the buildings did not.