Doldrums

K'ul Goran's constant and unpredictable winds are as much a challenge for the minotaur population as the labyrinthine city construction is for the genasi and djinn population. For those arriving from the Plane of Air though, even these unending air streams are only a fraction of the elemental power that they are accustomed to. For some of the djinn who come to the country, this change in intensity and pressure is too much for their bodies (often mostly comprised of swirling winds themselves) to fully process. The energy with which their own air currents swirl and dance lessens and slows, and the roiling form of the genie comes almost to a standstill. This is matched by a lack of energy from the djinn as a whole and they struggle even to breathe. This condition is known as the Doldrums and can be rapidly deadly or severely debilitating.
This was a major reason why only a handful of djinn had come to the Material Plane before, and a number of minds both medical and arcane had looked to solve this problem to little avail. Divine restoratives also had little impact on their powerful elemental forms.
Recently though, a Genasi priest of Akadi the Primodrial has found a treatment that has met with some success. As prior aerial motivators like injecting fast flowing air into them or lightning strikes had had no effect, along with the failure of divine intervention, they suspected that perhaps it was not a physical malady at all - but a more psycho-existential condition. They theorized that as Djinn are such transcendent beings already, their own beings are sustained in part by their own self-belief, somewhere between mortal self-confidence and divine sustenance-by-faith. Coming to a strange and unpleasant place like the Material Plane was a trepidatious step for many among the elite genie, though suggesting this to them would invite a swift denial. Still, as their own belief in themselves wavered, the innate magic that sustained them also wavered as they are actually tied together, and the cycle of the Doldrums begins.
The priest, Hypsi, used a very straightforward technique - using a magically-induced calm and then a simple bit of suggestive magic to tell the Djinn that they were fine and the problems were solved. Maintaining these rituals for a few hours have helped their patients to regain the confidence for their winds to start flowing again. Even after the spells end, the realisation that it can be fine with self-belief magically sustaining them has typically been enough to cure this condition completely.
A curious case, and a real scientific insight into the almost-divine nature of elemental beings and the relationship with faith as power.

Type

Magical