Stone of the Secret Fire

The Stone of the Secret Fire is a fictional item featured in the Wishmaster film series. It was introduced in the first movie in the series, Wishmaster in 1997.

History
The Stone of the Secret Fire was a red fire opal crafted by a Persian sorcerer in 1127 AD. It was created to contain the essence of a powerful and evil Djinn. After witnessing the horrors that the Djinn perpetuated in the Persian king's court, the sorcerer trapped the Djinn inside the stone whereupon it was buried inside of a statue of the Zoroastrian god, Ahura Mazda.

In the original unaltered timeline, the stone remained inside the statue for 870 years until the statue was purchased by American art collector Raymond Beaumont. As the statue was off-loaded at the docks, a drunken forklift operator named Mickey Torelli spilled his alcohol-tainted coffee onto the controls of the lift, which caused a short, dropping the crate containing the statue down upon Beaumont's assistant, Ed Finney, killing him. The statue shattered and the gem was discovered by a construction worker, who then sold it to a pawn shop for a couple of hundred dollars.

The pawn dealer, recognizing its obvious value then solod it to Regal Auctioneers where it was given to Alexandra Amberson for appraisal. After analyzing the stone, Alexandra immediately detected some inexplicable properties within it. She brought it to her friend, a geologist named Josh Aickman, who agreed to run a full spectral analysis on it for her. During the laser scan, Aickman detected the same strange properties that Alexandra found. These properties, which was the power of the Djinn itself, were too much for the machine to contain and it exploded, killing Aickman in the process. The Djinn was now free. He collected the broken pieces of the stone and kept it on his person as he sought out Alexandra Amberson who, as the first real caretaker of the gem, was now the beneficiary of three wishes.

After a gruesome ordeal and two mis-spent wishes involving the Djinn, Alex made her third and final wish, which was for Mickey Torelli to have not been drinking two days earlier. This alteration of the past, made it so that the statue of Ahura Mazda never broken and thus, the Djinn was never set free.

In the restructured timeline, the statue of Ahura Mazda remained safely in the care of Raymond Beaumont for a few years until it was donated to a museum in Los Angeles. One night, a group of art thieves broke into the museum and the statue was damaged. The Djinn was set free once more and was again in possession of the Stone of the Secret Fire.