Dungeons and Dragons Lore : Efreeti 

Best game I have ever been it with the Effreeti was with a 6 year old little girl. The game end up being called ," Little Fire Princess " My chaotic neutral 3.5e 8th-level sorcerer went to cast Lesser Planar Binding. The spell wasn't high enough to Call an adult Effreeti, so a child showed up. The DM's daughter loved playing the effreeti, and he thanked me for coming up with a fun way to get his daughter into the game. With her stuff Aladdin blue genie. So she got to play with two characters at once.

In my world, the tieflings (called Shaytaani) were enslaved by the efreeti for millennia until they rebelled and escaped to the material plane when the war of the ancient high elves weakened the planar barriers.

Genies might be some of my favorite entities in DnD. They're basically gods formed due to the unknown magical forces of the universe. Everyone wants to be them (I could see a self-reflective elemental religion sort of like Buddhism where the end goal is apotheosis into a genie), but genies themselves struggle to balance their hubris that comes from their incredible power with their psychological need for inter-personal validation and esteem.

I like to think of them as less so a being that embodies fire and more so a being that embodies heat itself. Of course fire comes with that, but it’s more than just fire. It’s passion, hatred, hope, pride, honor, jealousy, greed, and pleasure. The emotions it feels are all those that fill you with warmth and all those that make your blood boil. There is no in between, they are either kind and comforting or wrathful and torturous. I find heat rather than fire to be a better metaphor for the Efreeti’s overall disposition. They either love you or hate you. Which one is entirely up to how you interact with them.

Yeah, I'd love to hear more about the City of Brass!

You make the city of brass seem like Amsterdam filled with Hollywood celebrities! Lol

I like the idea that they are the cruelest masters but grant the fairest wishes, a Gjinn would make it as non impactful as possible, a Dao would rig it to his favor, a Myriad would rig it to a good story. But they gain honor by giving people what they want most. The more you like their wish the more honor they gain. Unless you imprisoned them of course

But what if you hug them _really_ fast?

With abs like that, can they really become any hotter?

My veteran players cringe when an Efreeti offers to grant a wish. They are the best at twisting the words. Player: "My wish is to raise all my attributes" Efreet: "You wish me to raze everything about you?" Player: "Yes. Do that." **player character bursts into flames and disintegrates into ash** Player: "I wish to watch (rival player) die, where the last thing he sees is my gloating over him" Efreet: "You wish that now?" Player: "Yes. Right away." **player character vanishes** Player: "What the f^ck?" DM (me): You will appear in front of (rival player) while he is dying. Player: "I wish all dragons cannot use breath weapons." Efreet: "That is easy." **player character vanishes** Player: "What the f^ck?" DM (me): Your character is transported to an alternate prime material plane that has no dragons with breath weapons. Create a new character or have someone in your party wish you back.

I love the idea of a horror themed campain with efreeti as main villain

Please make an episode on the City of Brass

Yesssss! I've been waiting for you to cover the other genies. To answer your question at the end of the video yes I'd love to hear more detail about the City Of Brass. And since you're asking if anyone's interested in more locations in the planes, how about the Great Dismal Delve home of the Dao genies as well. Can't wait for your videos on the Dao and Marids.

An analysis of narcissistic personality disorder is pretty informative when it comes to the psychology of the efreet. They are basically empty inside and insecure, which fuels their behaviors of seeking "narcissistic supply". This includes granting wishes ("love bombing"). You can bet that you will never win an argument with an efreet, because the efreet will never LET you win an argument with them, and will employ every narcissistic trick to prevent you from showing them up - from gaslighting and word salad to baiting and smearing up to physical violence.

Great choice and another excellent video. Thanks again for covering the yuan ti :)

Has the Efreeti Sultanate ever aligned with the layers of Hell? I think a campaign about preventing such an alliance might be a good campaign.

Rewatching your vids for warlock genies

Every video game I've ever played has taken inspiration from this game in so many ways. D&d is truly awesome. & i still have yet to play a campaign.

2 questions A: Do they know they were once mortals? B: Could a wish spell make them remember? and if so how would any genie react?

Nice video AJ. :) What are your thoughts on a powerful noble efreeti being able to grant Warlock pacts? As the efreeti are more "understandable" in nature, and less omnipotent, it would be an interesting relationship. Especially on the promotion / reputation aspect. The Sultan is not indiscriminate in his choice of pact-recipients, not is he forgiving of failure!

Enjoyed that piece a great deal. Thank you, AJ. My only issue was in the origins of the Genie-kind in general: mortals that somehow fuse with different elemental traits and so end up immortal elemental Genies of one type or another. The creatures come from the Middle East and even mentioned in the Koran. According to that belief system, the Djinn Pre-existed humanity, but came after the angles. They teach that just as god formed Adam from clay, so too did he form the Djinn from smokeless fire. And they have free will, like human beings do, with the ability to choose between good and evil, unlike his angels and demons which must do good and evil, respectively. In Islamic belief the Djinn were god’s chosen until he made Adam, and the he ordered them to bow before their betters. They refused and were cast out of the world, to spend eternity in space inside of shadows, behind reflections, within sound of the wind, and the heat of the earth’s magma. Some of the Djinn are good, others evil; few, if any, are indifferent. The evil Djinn hate humans and have since the time of Adam. It’s also important to note that the Djinn of Islam are mortal, but mortals that live for hundreds of years. They also believe King Solomon imprisoned a number of Djinn with his magic ring within the lamps and bottles in the folk stories. The Djinn so enslaved cannot die or even age until released from their prison. Thought you might be interested in a real world mythology for these beasties to add some flavor to them.

One of my favorite minis is an efreet from the old tomb of spells figure set.I use them very like a rakshasa in that they always have the deal that sounds too good to be true,but you always get shanked in the end.Or find out that you are playing for the wrong team.😏

As always, great video; thanks for the awesome content! One minor clarification: the "i" on the end of the names "efreeti, djinni," etc. indicates a plural. The singular would be "efreet" and "djinn." Just a linguistic tidbit I thought I would pass along. :)

For how much they want their names to be spread across the planes fo exists in high regard, I could see one being a interesting & interactive patron for a warlock. An Efrety would prefer a warlock that molty-classed as a bard, or Already has some level of fame due to an event in their life.

Do not put glyfs of teleport on your monsters gear. Doing this will make your players resent you. Even if they say they don't. Never introduce an item you aren't willing to let the PC's have or an NPC you aren't willing to see killed.

I'm playing a genie warlock who's patron is the efreeti sultan. The efreeti is not necessarily evil but not necessarily good. He protects my character and all spells are a built in defense system set in by the efreeti to protect my character. I'm planning on taking pact of the chain and gave the familiar be an "avatar" of the efreeti .

I've got one of these guys as a trio of subordinates my group are about to clash with that work with an ancient red dragon. Xerxes The Magnificent, he's got a flame tounge as a weapon, I'm sure he has more I can think of before they face him in the next few sessions. :)

I thought as outsiders in 3rd they couldn't be resurrected

These Jin are the most awesome

it sounds to me like most Genie would be extraordinarily susceptible to flattery and/or promises to tell everyone how great and awesome they are to all their friends.

This video is on fire :)

What would a grand sultan efreet do in the material plane? My players turned the campaign on its head and ended up stuck there. On the fly I panicked and word vomited. So now the grand sultan and his host of vizier has been over thrown, led by gold dragon and the players opening dangerous portals have accidently freed him into the material plane and got dragged into the plane. Soooo.... yeah

City of brass, And all other locations please, Pretty please..

Efreeti and devils should be friends.

does anybody know what that outro music was? sounded awesome.

I'd like to know about the city of brass.

City of Brass please good sir!

Is there anyway we can get a series on the elemental planes? I'm near the end of my campaign and it may be possible that one of my players gets one way transported to the elemental plane of Fire and there is a shocking lack of RU-vid videos that cover the planes individually and cohesively. I wonder why that is? I don't have any books that talk about them but from what I gather they seem, maybe to bland? I read about the City of Bronze but is the rest just boring magma? Bleh

lets just say my warlock player has a efreeti as a patron and we need to come up with a pact...anyone got any ideas? what would a efreeti want that wouldnt be too hard to get but also wouldnt be too easy?

When you say that they are made of stone and fire do you mean they can't touch mortals without hurting them, or do you mean mortals shouldn't try to touch them?Are efreeti capable of appearing in a soft fleshy form?

In my world none of the genie are inherently evil I like to think of it as people maybe there is a bad egg or two but for the most part they are good because as it states it’s a mortal soul combined with the element of evil would be a shame that only evil souls would combine with fire or any other element

Was Jafar's Genie form an Efreeti?

Magic cards got efreet I always woundered wat dey wuz

[How to Kill an Efreeti?] They like to play bets so play to win everything your opponent has and looser must kill themselves. Can an Immortal Kill themselves? If you were to send an Efreeti into the negative energy plane would that be able to kill it?

wizards of the coast made dnd and mtg so it's not far fetched to think the two worlds borrow from each other right

I have a married pair of efreet in an iron bottle I acquired about 15 years ago they're alignments were neutral good with lawful tendencies and they are both deeply in love and are always kind to the user. I also have a ring with a very angry very enraged Efreeti Lord whom I'm told is a Vizer of a lesser family of the city of brass. I've aquired copies of "Mazuntals Runes" and "The Seven lost Rings of Mazantal" and coupling that with "The Magical properties of Gems" by mage Tenser I've got the means time and money to begin producing devices to enslave genies successfully I think 28th level is high enough,my library is sufficient I've got oodles of assistance from any class I choose I'm a sage in regards to magical fabrication and magical retrofabrication on items of my own design.....what do you think? I'm sure you have some items your casters have created that make ya swell with pride! Lolx2

is it possible an half human half efreeti happen?

what would happen if an efreet and a mortal mated?.....what would the child be exactly?

Are genies tougher then devil's and demons?

We were trying ridiculous hybrids to make up and play. A friend of mine had a character that was made by magical experimentation. She was essentially a Succubus/Effreeti. Named her "Crimson" for her skin. She HOT! Both figuratively and literally! XD

were is the status for it I an look though every book that has monster but i can't find so please tell me were f&*^%k is please

Audio quality: 3/10 Delivery: 5/10 Content: 8/10 Reupload with better and stable audio. Had to stop listening after about 5 min

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