Marid Appearance?

[delabarre]

Pathfinder #21, p. 49:

Quote:

Marids have bodies covered in fine scales and hair like flowing kelp, most often blue, black, or green...

PFRPG Bestiary, p. 142:

Quote:

(A marid) resembles a powerful giant with hairless blue-green skin, deep blue eyes, flamboyant eyebrows, and pearlescent teeth.

Sooo...hairless or kelplike blue/black/green hair? Blue-green scaly skin?

I don't know what "flamboyant" eyebrows means.

I'm totally down with the pearlescent teeth though.

[Shuriken Nekogami]

i don't really know, i would borrow from anime in this case.

[Moorluck]

Since it(PFB pg142) starts its description with 'This being...' and then shows a picture with long flowing tresses, I would go with the text being the description of a particular Marid. I would imagine that maybe he shaved his head to hide that ceasar ring. :P

[pres man]

Hairless probably refers to the body versus the head.

[James Jacobs]

Marids have hair on their heads and eyebrows, but nowhere else (hairless skin, in this case, basically excludes the scalp).

The description in Pathfinder #21 is, unfortunately, incorrect and/or out of date. Although marids, like most creatures, can certainly have variations in their appearance, so the version described in PF 21 could be a weirdo "backwoods" version of the race or something like that.

[Arnwyn]

How did that manage to happen, and why did it change?

[Cpt_kirstov]

Arnwyn wrote:

How did that manage to happen, and why did it change?

. I would guess that the person editing the bestiary was not the one who edited the ap adventure and theprevious entry was missed

[James Jacobs]

Arnwyn wrote:

How did that manage to happen, and why did it change?

Pathfinder #21 was written and edited several months before we had the Bestiary being worked on, for one thing. I believe, at the point we were working on #21, we didn't even have the final list of monsters for the Bestiary nailed down; we CERTAINLY didn't have all of the Bestiary files in. Nor did we have art in for Shazathared, the marid on the cover of #23, in yet (the cover art for ALL the Legacy of Fire adventures tended to come in at the very last minute). We introduced the shaitan genies in Pathfinder #18, of course, and in that adventure we have two very different looking shaitans, all of which look different than the one from #23's cover. The central theme of a shaitan is that they have skin made of some sort of stone, be it obsidian, lapis lazuli, or alabaster... or granite or marble or sandstone or whatever. The result of that means that there can be a HUGE variation in shaitan appearances.

And we liked how those three shaitans looked, and so it became the official look. The article in #21 therefore has a few inconsistencies with where we ended up.