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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7338034" data-attributes="member: 20323"><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b8/cd/39/b8cd39e37971095b9b907cba5fb26db1--golem-character-profile.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> A cheshire smile spreads across the Al-Aeshma's sand-blasted face, "Seeing and hearing, O Wind Called, I shall answer. Know that the Door of the Four Winds existed long before the Seal of Jafar al-Samal, and long before the Caliphate of All Djinn. The wisest of my brethren knew it as the place where the Winds of Creation touched this mortal world. They spoke of it as an idea as much as an actual place. Only the noble Djinn were taught the secret way to find the Door, and they would travel there on pilgrimage when great and turbulent events came to pass. So it was until the house of Nafhat came to power..." Pausing as he mentions the family name of the Great Caliph of All Djinn, Husam al-Balil ben Nafhat al-Yugayyim, the Al-Aeshma expands his chest and squints his eyes, as if recalling the history of the djinn rubs salt in his wounded pride."The House of Nafhat believed there was no wind they could not master, and sought to move the Door of the Four Winds to their Citadel of Ice and Steel. And so they marshaled grand armies of janissaries upon pegasi to seek the Door, to slake their vanity." His violet face underlit by the flickering campfire tended by your roguish guides, the Al-Aeshma continues in a low voice. ”Those august heroes who returned with the Door were elevated as the first of the Great Caliph’s Lords of Air. None speaks of what they encountered, but the Al-Aeshma believe that when the Door was moved it left behind a void which would become the Jabal Turab, the mountain of dust from which the efreet invade the Winds of Creation.””The Great Caliph learned the powers of the Door  – to transport his armies with the blink of an eye; to  send winds of change, warning, or vengeance to those worlds touched by the Door; to banish his enemies…” Here the Al-Aeshma’s eyes crackle like lightning and he scowls before leaning over to regard Salahuddin once more, ”…and to whisk mortals away to entertain his court. However, the Door was born of eternity, and only a fool could hope to have dominion over it. Even the Great Caliph cannot bind the Door entirely to his will, for it moves with Fate herself, appearing and disappearing according to some unseen design. Thus, there are moments when – lacking the Door’s powers – the Great Caliph must rely on bluff and bluster to keep his enemies at bay.” A dark smile plays across the Al-Aeshma’s face like cloud silhouettes upon the dunes.”This is what I know of the Door of the Four Winds. I trust I have satisfied your thirst for knowledge, sha’ir?”[GM]EDIT: I forgot! [MENTION=6803188]VLAD the Destroyer[/MENTION], gain Inspiration![/GM]</blockquote>

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