The Academy's genies on elephants don't look very good; they look better on their own two feet (if you can consider blue smoke to be legs). Could we use the genie model from the seventh Heroes game? Solmyr had a very beautiful model there, and there are also female models for genies.
No, I made the genies the way I wanted them to look. The genie from Aladdin also ran on his own two feet after being freed, and here we also have free, sort of, genie heroes. But the most important thing is that a regular genie without an elephant can easily be mistaken for a neutral unit on the map, so the presence of the elephant is a gameplay feature. There are mods that add genie models to genies; you can remove my model from the mod using the method described above and use another mod.
The names of the genies in the MapObjects folder: Astral (Nura) and Tan (Jalib).