"What was the midnight war?" Sul paused and sat there for a time before finally speaking. "...It was a dark and terrible time for D'jinn, I would not speak of it so lightly, perhaps later after I tell you my own tale..perhaps not at all..."
"Fair enough....Ok so, D'jinn are more or less long lived, beings formed off energy.. am I correct in this so far?" the D'jinn nodded and I continued, "D'jinn tend to stick to themselves and nature but some of your kind have been involved in the founding of our most earliest civilizations, as well as acted as our early gods and spirits." Sul nodded once more. "So, tell me about yourself Sul."
"I am a D'jinn, as I have explained... I'm not sure what else to say."
"Well, let's start at the beginning, where and when were you born?"
"How long has it been since the unification of Roma?"
"The Republic, Empire or Eruscans?"
"The Republic, and their own word was Etruscian, Eruscan was what the Romans called them, though they were all romans after they were annexxed."
"To answer your question, roughly two thousand five hundred years, when was the War in relation to this?"
"Between the fall of Babylonia to Mursalis of Hatti and the transition of the Roman Republic to the Empire."
As Sul spoke I continued to write this all down before I interrupted as it paused, "So.. the war was close to fifteen hundred years long, is that right?" The Djinn gave me the slightest of nods before I continued. "now that we have a general timeline, where and when would you say you were born... is born even the right terminology?"
"Born is correct, as it takes two Djinn to create a new third Djinn, I won't go into detail and simply let your mind wonder." The Djinn snickered before continuing, "I was born after what was referred to as the great floods on the southern continent of Al'antia, while many groups described this events as the anger of the gods, and punishment for vices it was rather the result of several things. Fire, or rather stone and metal rained from the sky across the world impacted the oceans and changed the balance of the natural world. At that time the Djinn and Angels were opposed about what to do. Both groups had seen the threat coming, however the angels refused to interfere, while the Djinn wanted to intervene, as a compromise we chose members of your species to be warned and make their best attempts at riding out the impending destruction. Considering you are here to ask me questions is proof enough our efforts were not in vain."
I rapidly scrawled my notes, holding up a hand to indicate I wanted Sul to stop there for the time being. "Ok, that was a lot of information that I need to properly make sense of it all...Al'antia, southern continent, could this be what has been referred to as Atlantis in Greek writings?" Sul nodded holding up a glowing set of glyphs again to correct my pronunciation, "Grecian, got it.... So the "great floods".. makes sense most cultures have a flood myth, makes sense it was a natural disaster of some kind, however our scholars though it several separate events."
"It was. The comet initially impacted luna and broke apart and over the course of several hundred years the larger pieces became trapped by the world's g'vity and was pulled in most of them impacting the oceans and resulting in massive displacement of water." I arched and eyebrow at the word Sul had used. "G'vity, the force that keeps your feet on the ground."
"We call it Gravity."
"Duly noted....where was I?"
"Comet chunks splashing down and causing Tsunami's."
The Djinn sat there quietly staring at me. "..Soo...nah..me?" I nodded, drawing out a basic sketch of a Tsunami and the spelling. "Ah, yes....where is that term from?"
"Japan, to the far East...it's actually closer if you go to the west though. An island nation, also known as the land of the rising sun. East of China....do you think you can teach me that glyph trick you've been using? It might make it easier to communicate and translate ideas and words a bit more clearly."
The Djinn sat there silently watching me for a time.
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