Al-Qadim: Over, Sideways, and Under

I praised this animation in my last entry, then forgot to actually include it. In the last session, we learned that some malevolent force is freeing genies from their vows. My own family's genie, without authorization, destroyed the ship belonging to a rival family and kidnapped my betrothed, Princess Kara. When questioned, the genie intimated that my family ordered the attack, so the caliph had my mother, father, and sister (the only family members who can summon the genie) imprisoned in the capital city of Bandar al-Sa'adat. I don't know whether the caliph is part of the conspiracy, but he said some weird things, and something is clearly going on with him. The sorcerer Farid al-Mutan suggested I seek out the Genie Lords to get to the bottom of this mystery, but to find them, I'll need to learn the name of the island they live on. I can supposedly get that information from a hermit in the library on Shibaz. Before going there, I decided to go to Bandar al-Sa'adat to spend some money…