You've found a lamp with a dick-ass genie inside!
Fortunately, you've done your research. These genies were nobles of powerful sorcerer slave empire, cast down by the gods and bound as slaves themselves to teach them humility. Each one will only be freed after serving 1001 masters, three wishes for each. These genies are assholes, but you know their rules:
+ They only have to follow the words of your wish, and can interpret those words as far as they can be interpreted.
+ They can't directly lie to their master, but can deceive indirectly.
+ They can't do anything to harm their master UNLESS their master's wish can be interpreted as request/permission to do so.
+ Wishes have to be declared by holding the lamp, addressing the genie ("slave" or "servant" will do) and announcing "I wish [X]", so they can't take any casual expression of desire as a wish.
+ Wishes are only used up to do outright magical things; until you use them all, the genie must serve you any way a human slave could. The genie is allowed to alter their appearance but is required to openly wear some sign of their slavery.
The genies are forbidden to interfere in the domain of the gods even if their master wishes it, so:
- They cannot truly create life by magic (though they can animate lifeless objects, or transfigure existing living creatures)
- They cannot interfere with mortal free will (no mind control)
- They cannot interfere with the rightful flow of time
- They cannot use any magic on their own prison lamps or the lamps of other genies
The magic that recognizes you as master of the lamp is divine, not the genie's, and effectively recognizes your "wish account" by your soul. The lamp does not work for beings who do not have souls. Mastery does not need to be consecutive - you can make your first wish, pass the lamp to someone else, have them make their first wish and then take the lamp back and cast your second wish, and so on.
What do you wish?