Djinn Worship

Djinn Worship is the primary faith within the Bahami Federation. Rather than worshiping some distant god or idea, the people of the Federation instead have a series of djinn that reside on their islands. Each island is said to be watched over by an individual djinn, providing for the people's prosperity and livelihood. The djinn, in return for wealth and worship, offer protection from storms and hurricanes that occasionally pass over the islands. This allows the Federation to thrive, as long as the flow of slaves and gold continue to enter into the islands and into the coffers of the powerful djinn that watch over them.

Structure

There is no overarching organizational structure to the worship of the djinn in the Bahami Federation. Instead, each individual djinn negotiates directly with the emir of the various islands they reside upon. The emir then passes on the latest demands and words of the djinn to the people, justifying rises in taxes and providing warnings of incoming inclement weather or foreign attacks. The djinn rarely intervene directly, nor do they ever bequeath clerics with power. They are known to be jealous of their own power and magics, and rarely, if ever, share.

Assets

Each individual djinn possesses a gateway that leads to their various pocket dimensions and realms from which they lord over their mortal servants. The mukarribs who serve them tend to have their own estates, but they do not contribute these to the propagation of the religion. Instead, most of the assets of the djinn come from raids upon foreign shipping throughout the islands and along the coasts of Emicara. Within the djinn pocket realms, however, the souls of their followers rest and serve the djinn upon demand giving them nearly limitless resources within their own dimensions.

Djinn at the Eye of the Storm

Type

Religious, Other

Demonym

Djinnist

Permeated Organizations

• Bahami Federation

Related Ethnicities

• Bahami