This is actually more the style of jinn and efreet bottled by Solomon. The three wishes stuff was more common with fairy magic (and spoiler, the wish maker would foul it up and get stuck with the consequences.)
With a djinn, it was more yeah, I’ll do magic stuff for you until I get bored, and if you’re very lucky, and don’t piss me off too much, I just might let you live.
Think of a mafia don who owes you a favor and doesn’t like the obligation hovering over him. And yet, if you ask for too much, he may just disappear you instead.
According to the mythology every jinn is different, like us mortals, but with also the experience of having been imprisoned in a bottle or article. Both of Aladdin’s jinn (of the lamp and of the ring) were additionally bound to serve whoever possessed their article of binding but most were not, so it was up to them in the moment how they’d behave.
Very often the jinn or efreet would just kill the hapless mortal who freed them, and then might go on a local rampage. Others (the most common story) would be grateful for their release and might help out if their liberator was in a bit of a jam. So opening a bottle of jinn (heh!) might be a last resort since there’s intrinsic risk.
In the scenario I was suggesting, the jinn stays with their liberator on their own volition hanging out so long as its fun, and then if the mortal wasn’t too much of a dick (or as per the comic, adequately malevolent) will part ways amicably.
This is actually more the style of jinn and efreet bottled by Solomon. The three wishes stuff was more common with fairy magic (and spoiler, the wish maker would foul it up and get stuck with the consequences.)
With a djinn, it was more yeah, I’ll do magic stuff for you until I get bored, and if you’re very lucky, and don’t piss me off too much, I just might let you live.
Think of a mafia don who owes you a favor and doesn’t like the obligation hovering over him. And yet, if you ask for too much, he may just disappear you instead.
So, if you let it go before that happens you might survive?
According to the mythology every jinn is different, like us mortals, but with also the experience of having been imprisoned in a bottle or article. Both of Aladdin’s jinn (of the lamp and of the ring) were additionally bound to serve whoever possessed their article of binding but most were not, so it was up to them in the moment how they’d behave.
Very often the jinn or efreet would just kill the hapless mortal who freed them, and then might go on a local rampage. Others (the most common story) would be grateful for their release and might help out if their liberator was in a bit of a jam. So opening a bottle of jinn (heh!) might be a last resort since there’s intrinsic risk.
In the scenario I was suggesting, the jinn stays with their liberator on their own volition hanging out so long as its fun, and then if the mortal wasn’t too much of a dick (or as per the comic, adequately malevolent) will part ways amicably.