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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 9705396" data-attributes="member: 1125">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 MaridThe 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)</blockquote>