Dijinn

• Largely incorporeal, but can condense into tangible semi-solid shapes for brief periods.
• Their cores are smoldering nexus points — miniature unstable fusions of magic and elemental memory that float within the swirling mass of their bodies.

No genders or traditional reproduction. They instead emerge spontaneously where intense grief, passion, or residual Emberkin magic coalesce in ash-rich zones.

Cannot truly reproduce, but can “fracture,” creating smaller Ash Wisps — lesser versions that carry shards of their will. These may eventually coalesce into new, independent djinn if they gather enough power.

• Thrive in ash plains, volcanic ruin vaults, and old Emberkin ritual sites, often nesting near still-warm magma conduits or ley fractures.
• Many take up residence in partially collapsed Emberkin citadels, drawn by the lingering sorrow and broken oaths embedded in the very stones.

• Do not eat in a biological sense. Sustain themselves on emotionally charged magic, particularly grief, nostalgia, or intense longing.
• Known to hover over mourning camps or visit dying dragons to siphon their last embers of thought.

• Wax stronger when nearby passions run high (wars, funerals, erupting volcanoes).
• During long peaceful ages, many enter a dormant drift — a smoky haze blanketing forgotten ruins until awoken by new turmoil.

• Fickle and deeply dramatic. Love to appear in moments of decision, offering cryptic guidance or temptations.
• Can be mournfully gentle or cruelly capricious, depending on their feeding needs and the emotional “flavor” they detect in mortals.

Largely solitary. When multiple djinn gather, they form Ash Conclaves — swirling communal tempests where they trade memories in bursts of ghost-flame.

When forming faces, they tend toward exaggerated, almost mask-like visages with glowing ember eyes, hollow cheeks, and drifting ash “hair.”

Predominantly found across Embergarde’s ash fields, volcanic badlands, and Emberkin ruin sites, though powerful djinn can drift anywhere ley lines tangle.

Extremely intelligent, with memories often centuries old, pieced together from countless lives burned away in the fires that spawned them.

Perceive emotions as colored heat patterns and ley line pulses as currents they can ride, allowing them to appear suddenly miles away by slipping through magical “smoke vents.”

• Names are often inherited from the passions that spawned them, e.g.:
• Kehlath of the Lovers’ Pyre, Zurrhath Ashmourne, Nylira Emberthirst.

Not capable of romantic attachment in the mortal sense, but form complex attachments to recurring souls — haunting families across generations.

No tools, but master volatile ash-rituals and ember illusions, able to craft ghost-flame constructs that act like servants or curses.

• Speak Ancient Embercant mixed with low, drifting Draconic, voices echoing as if from many different mouths at once.

• When greeting mortals, may coil around them in a soft ash swirl, reading surface emotions before offering words.
• Among themselves, drift in spirals, trailing cinder tendrils that briefly touch.

None — adorn themselves with shifting soot mantles or cinder-crowns. Some incorporate scraps of old Emberkin jewelry, levitating them in smoky orbit.

• See themselves as keepers of grief and memory, ensuring nothing that burns truly dies without echo.
• Many believe they’re destined to reunite all lost passion into a final world-ending pyre, though this could be more poetic than prophecy.

• Fire genasi: Treat them with eerie affection, seeing them as living reminders of their progenitors.
• Molten dwarves & gnomes: Distrust them; many dwarves keep talismans of solidified lava glass to repel djinn influence.
• Salamanders: See them as curious but slightly tragic — the ultimate fate of passions left unchecked.
• Dragons: Ancient dragons sometimes consult them for forgotten secrets, though even dragons risk losing precious memories in the bargain.