Individuals whose ancestry includes beings of elemental fire such as efreet, ifrits are a passionate and fickle ancestry. No ifrit is satisfied with a sedentary life; like a wildfire, ifrits must keep moving or burn away into nothingness. Ifrits not only adore flames, but personify multiple aspects of them as well, embodying both fire’s dynamic, ever-changing energy and its destructive, pitiless nature.
Physical Description: Ifrits vary in appearance as widely as their elemental ancestors do. Most have pointy ears, red or mottled horns on the brow, and hair that flickers and waves as if it were af lame. Some possess skin the color of polished brass or have charcoal-hued scales covering their arms and legs. Ifrits favor revealing and ostentatious clothing in bright oranges and reds, preferably paired with gaudy jewelry.
Since ifrit are descendants of outsiders, many live long lifespans. They reach adulthood around 60, with middle age at 150 and old age around their two hundreds. The most venerable of this ancestry live into their mid-two hundreds.
Ifrit are sexual dimorphic, with the average height of males around six feet and females a couple inches shorter. Their body mass is similar, making most females weigh slightly less than males.
Society: Ifrits are most often born into communities of other ancestries, and rarely form societies of their own. Those who grow up in a city almost always struggle to fit in; most are simply too hot-headed and independent to mesh with civilized society, and their predilection toward pyromania doesn’t endear them to the local authorities. Those born into nomadic or tribal societies often fare well, since ifrits’ instinctive urge to explore or conquer their surroundings can easily earn them a place among their tribe’s leadership.
Relations: Even the best-natured ifrits sometimes value other individuals as useful to their own ends, and as such they get along best with people they can charm or browbeat into submission. Half-elves and gnomes often find themselves caught up in an ifrit’s schemes, while halflings, orcs, and dwarves usually bridle at ifrits’ controlling nature. Strangely, ifrits sometimes form incredibly close bonds with elves, whose calm, aloof nature seems to counterbalance an ifrit’s impulsiveness. Most ifrits refuse to associate with sylphs, but are otherwise on peaceable terms with the other elemental-touched ancestries.
Alignment and Religion: Ifrits are a dichotomous people – on one hand, fiercely independent, and on the other, imperious and demanding. They are often accused of being morally impoverished, but their troublemaking behavior is rarely motivated by true malice. Ifrits are usually individually or integrity aligned, with a few falling into true neutrality. Most ifrits lack the mindset to follow a deity’s teachings, and resent the strictures placed on them by organized faith. When ifrits do take to worship (usually venerating a fire-related deity), they prove to be zealous and devoted followers.
Adventurers: Ifrits adventure for the sheer thrill of it and for the chance to test their skill against worthy foes, but most of all they adventure in search of power. Once ifrits dedicate themselves to a task, they pursue it unflinchingly, never stopping to consider the dangers ahead of them. When this brashness finally catches up with them, ifrits often rely on the mystical arts to combat their resulting troubles.
Names: Aja, Alayi, Denat, Efit, Etwa, Elum, Jalij, Maqan, Maqej, Qari, Sami, Urah, Zetaya