[quote=@Muttonhawk] [center][img]https://orig00.deviantart.net/caee/f/2015/179/9/9/barok_kick_table_by_superaj3-d8z6qsm.gif[/img] [h1]NOW WHAT WAS THAT YOU WERE SAYING ABOUT ME LOSING!??![/h1][/center] Scroll and scroll and scroll and weep. And then scroll some more. I need help. [/quote] What I was saying is that I let you win, of course. :lol I know about winter and earthquakes and tropes and long posts, but am just as ignorant to editing as Cuumulo is to faith. That ignorance is what allows me to write entire posts in single sessions! There's no competing with that! It was a good read, as BBeast said, and your portrayal of Cuumulo was also great. Nevermind the writing of his dialogue being like some Jvanic cancer, just imagine how awful Aihtiraq's can get. I don't think it'd be terribly unusual for him to take the shape of a hain. I don't know if I've explicitly managed to say as much IC, but I always imagined that most djinn would take on a shape similar to that of the being that they address, or else just remain in some favored and decidedly inhuman default appearance. Most pictures of generic elementals have them look vaguely humanoid and many of the djinn are seen from the perspective of Vetruvian or Rukban shamans, so that's probably the source of any perceived humanoid bias in their portrayals.