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Player: Teresa Shannon
Email: tws@csd.uwm.edu
AGE: 27
Name: Siddiqua Amtuallah (means "One who keeps her word" and is a female servant of Allah).
Nature: Djinniyeh specifically an Ifritah
Age: Immortal
Appearance: Female figure approximately 5'8" light features with milky white skin, eyes as a prisoner are a metallic sheen, brassy or coppery with an almost burning flickering of flames edged in gloriously thick long lashes. Her body is luxurious and sculpted with a remarkable stomach, arms with long tapered fingers, a silky porcelain and hairless body. The curve from her breasts to her hips inspired many poems from scholars which have survived to this day and her lips are more bountiful than the Tigris and Euphrates. Her hair is heavy, long and black with red highlights and coifed for the court she attended before capture. She has a mark upon her that was much commented upon in the courts by suitors and would-be suitors and those who knew her. It appears above her right collarbone and looks precisely like the Islamic crescent and star, a mark that appeared when she chose to believe. It is visible with her current clothing. Her wrists and ankles are bound with iron, ethereal chains dangling between them. If seen magically, aura and the like, she is a beautifully shaped pillar or writhing fire bound with magical chains. She weeps tears of molten copper. The chains were an added touch of cruelty by the one who bound her and give her a constant pain as they bite into her body.
Background: The Ifritah is very attracted to this human life and earth, why she lived amongst humans and consorted with them. The Ifritah aided the faithful and had the freedom to act amongst them after being marked by the Almighty. She became a sought after figure at the courts in Baghdad and later Damascus for her erudite ways and mystical knowledge. She was betrayed by a Syrian magician hungry for the power of her services and he tricked and bound her into the lamp, intending to use her later.
She has been stewing over that for over a thousand years, and takes her bondage reluctantly especially due to the constant pain and torment from the chains. She has not yet served and will try futilely to resist. Out of some vengeance she will take the most capricious and literal interpretations of commands at first. If one could get beyond the betrayal aspect the Ifritah is capable of human emotions, although trust will not be possible until some show of sacrifice is made. The Ifritah knows no way to free herself. She has a weakness for all things delicate and truly innocent and is terribly lonely and bitter. The bottle is nigh unbreakable and exerts a subtle influence on its surroundings.
Abilities: An Effreet is bound to serve as an inferior power to that of Allah ,binder of demons, to Solomon, or to those who have gained the extreme power and understanding to bargain with the Djinn in the name of Allah, the Merciful and King Solomon.
This Ifritah is bound to the bottle and to the whims of the one holding the bottle with restrictions set by the mage who betrayed her. She may grant three wishes to the master of the bottle and perform other minor duties that do not qualify as a wish. She may not perform contradictory actions or those that conflict with the living will of Allah or the binder of Djinn, Solomon. She may not kill her master but may those who are targets of the master's will. Killing another is a wish. Affecting someone's mind is always a wish. Changing the fabric of reality, affecting physical things or changing the properties permanently of an object or person is a wish. She may not effect the souls of those that have them.
She may not raise the dead as that directly conflicts with the will of Allah, nor may she grant immortality to those who may not normally claim it, although long life is possible. She has extreme powers over those areas requested by the master but does not store all of them at any given time. The master may use her minor powers without number though she is not bound to reveal that; minor powers to gather information or to transport or do some servitude. She may communicate with anyone. If a wish statement is mentioned in the presence of the bottle, even if she is not being addressed then she will act and the wish will be considered 1/3 of the servitude filled. After service she may not serve the person again and another must use the bottle. Events seem to become more intense around the bottle's owner, good and bad as if the fates focused on the individual near this relic of another magic.
History: This is an Enlightened Ifritah and she has been around on the earth since before Babylon, managing to hang on into the beginning of the golden age of the Moslems before being trapped by a Syrian magician. A trust was betrayed and the being was bound for magical servitude into an ancient vessel of smoky leaded glass with a curiously sigiled iron stopper. The magician, by all accounts, was killed by crusaders passing by and the glass was taken as a curiosity back to Europe, to France for 200 years. A scholar purchased it from a noble family down on its luck and eventually exchanged it with a Moorish sorcerer for a philosophers stone as the sorcerer recognized the age and manufacture of the bottle.
When the Reconquista drove the moors forth, the bottle ended up in a church storeroom in Leon, undisturbed until General Franco's reign in the 50's when he was looting tombs for propaganda and money. The bottle went to a member of his advisory council who was Opus Dei and had certain dark leanings on the side. Delving into his dark researches he left the bottle undisturbed and upon his untimely and violent death the bottle went with other occult artifacts to an estate sale to another and eventually ended up at Christies auction house in London. The glass itself predates all but the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, intact, and the seal, still of melted gold around the iron stopper raised the value of the antiquity for the mystery of not being opened.
She retained a vague memory of anyone coming into possession of the bottle and influencing things, but has not been out of the bottle and is unaware of social and cultural mores. She's pretty pissed off, but is bound with ancient magics to the vessel and the owner of the vessel; she will try to resist her bondage, but in vain. The bottle's seal is likened to a seal of Solomon, but is an invention by the Syrian sorcerer and thus the sigil does not appear in any tomes or books but the personal diaries of the magician, lost in the ages.
Currently the bottle is on its way to Sanctuary and will appear as a gift to one yet unnamed.
