Transparency (Su) When underwater, a Nereid's body becomes transparent, effectively rendering her invisible. She can become visible or transparent at will as a free action.
You can see any objects or beings that are invisible within your range of vision, as well as any that are ethereal, as if they were normally visible. Such creatures are visible to you as translucent shapes, allowing you easily to discern the difference between visible, invisible, and ethereal creatures.
I'm not quite sure how these two abilities/spells interact. Looking into the water, normal people would essentially just see more water. Someone with see invisibility...? I think they would see the creature as if it were translucent-but that's already what she is. Assuming the see invisibility helps at all, as it says she's effectively invisible, but not actually invisible. Help?
Transparency, as a Supernatural ability, is by definition a type of magical invisibility. See Invisible should work fine.
Translucent and Transparent are not exactly the same.
If they agent the same, doesn't that contradict your answer?
It is unclear what should happen. Pun intended.
I think that See Invisbility does nothing in this case, but I could be persuaded to rule the other way if someone were convincing with their reasons.
I might hedge my bets and give someone with See Invisbility up a bonus on their perception check to spot the Nereid since they are looking for translucent things due to the spell.
The creature is not really invisible. It just gains the benefits of invisibility so see invisibility should not work. It seems to me that the creature loses color allowing others to see through her.
transparency =/= invisible, transparency just piggybacks the mechanics of invisibility.
If they wanted it to be invisibility they could have worded it as
"...becomes invisible ..." and saved themeselves a dozen words.
Its a Supernatural ability so See Invisible should work.
Plus if they wanted to avoid invisibility they could have just worded the ability to grant Total Concealment.
The poster child of invisibility vs. see invisibility is the Invisible Stalker. It has Natural Invisibility (Ex). As an Ex ability, it is not magical, and is not overcome by the spell. The Nerid's Transparency (Su) is Su, and so magical. Being magical, I would expect it to be overcome by the spell.
/cevah
Transparency, as a Supernatural ability, is by definition a type of magical invisibility. See Invisible should work fine.
Translucent and Transparent are not exactly the same.
Transparent is a subset of Translucent.
The poster child of invisibility vs. see invisibility is the Invisible Stalker. It has Natural Invisibility (Ex). As an Ex ability, it is not magical, and is not overcome by the spell. The Nerid's Transparency (Su) is Su, and so magical. Being magical, I would expect it to be overcome by the spell.
/cevah
I am pretty sure that see invisibility would work on an invisible stalker. It worked on them in 3.5
Invisible stalkers have an amorphous form. A see invisibility spell shows only a dim outline of a cloud, while a true seeing spell reveals a roiling cloud of vapor.
I think see invisibility would also work on the Nereid. It is an ability that grants invisibility's effects. Unless it says otherwise it should also grant her that effect's drawbacks.
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See invisibility definitely works v.s. invisible stalkers. Invisibility purge, however, does not.
Also, don't forget that when underwater invisibility causes it to look like a humanoid bubble displacing the water around you, instead of being totally invisible. You get a 20% concealment, v.s. 50% from invisibility underwater.
I think the transparency is meant to give regular 50% concealment underwater.
But to the real question at hand:
I don't know, sorry, but I don't think I'd allow the Nereid to be seen based on this line from See Invisibility:
" It does not reveal creatures who are simply hiding, concealed, or otherwise hard to see." and to me translucent does not equal invisible.