Paul Farquhar
Legend
Marids are fluid.
D&D General Why did Marids change?
- Thread starter Shades of Eternity
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Shades of Eternity
Legend
we shouldn't kink shame.
This wins the thread.
Nikosandros
Golden Procrastinator
I don't know but I bet there's something fishy going on. I won't take the bait.
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
Nah, it's just a red herring.
Necropolitan
Hero
I'm fine with them looking like fish creatures, but they should still be blue.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Which does bring up why dont Efreet look like lions or genie like birds? why does every djinn except Marid look humanish
LuisCarlos17f
Legend
In 3rd ed the look was different.
Now I am remember some old fairy tale about a fish what granted wished, for example brothers Grimm "the fisherman and his wife".
Maybe different families choose to show a different look. For example when they are more willing to trade with humanoids they show a human-like image.
Now I am remember some old fairy tale about a fish what granted wished, for example brothers Grimm "the fisherman and his wife".
Maybe different families choose to show a different look. For example when they are more willing to trade with humanoids they show a human-like image.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Yeah there are a number of Persian and Chinese tales about Fisherman catching magic fish who plead for mercy and grant the fisherman luck and wealth in return. Most of the stories become a moral about choosing wisdom over greed. Its also true that Jinniyah are shapeshifters often taking the form of gazelle or snakes. I suppose that could justify the fishy form of DnD Marid
The Mārid itself comes from the 1001 Nights tale about the Fisherman and the Genie, where a poor Fisherman after many failures calls on the name of God and catches a brass bottle bearing the Seal of Solomon. The Genie within it is a Mārid, gigantic in size, and proud and arrogant. The Mārid first believes that Solomon has come to slay him, but when the Fisherman tells him that Solomon is long dead the Mārid threatens to kill the Fisherman but is tricked back into the bottle via another story (ie cleverness/wisdom).
In the Tale of the Three Ladies, we learn that the Eldest Lady was in a shipwreck and rescued by a powerful magician who was descended from the Mārids (and calls on them to sink enemy ships)
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