What type of creature would the Skesis from The Dark Crystal be? I could see them as a new species of rakshasa.
Well the skeksis and the mystics are 2 halves of a whole. You literally can't have one without the other - when Skeksis-A dies Mystic-A also dies (although they don't have to be anywhere near each other).
I'd see them as some kind of outsider (native to the material plane, like tieflings or aasimars)... actually tieflings and aasimars aren't a bad analoge.
I always saw the skeksis as having a high INT while the mystics have a high WIS (but some of that might actually be personal bias coming from the word "mystic"), and the mystics are probably LG alignment to the skeksis CE.
UrSkeks seem to have cleric levels since they can do Raise Dead
Gelflings and Podlings seem like Elf/Gnome copies
Aughra is a special case since she was 'Born of the rocks and wood'
Perhaps the Skeksis could be a new kind of oni (based of the tengu maybe?) and the mystics would be a new kind of kami?
I'd use the stats for tengu and call it a day (they do swing swords at stones all day after all).
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Awakened Iron Golem?
I think you're thinking of the Garthim, the Skeksis' warriors, not the skeksis themselves. :) Though I think the Garthim are actual giant vermin (or magical beasts) that were controlled with magical staves. I think there is a creature in Pathfinder that kind of looks like them but I am too lazy to look it up. Though there is a construct-like feel about them too.
Looks like the D&D nagpa definitely were inspired by the skeksis, as they appeared not long after the film.
What are they in sort of a broad way? Glancing at the Dark Crystal wiki to remind myself, looks like the urSkeks (the original conjoined being) were indeed, effectively Outsiders (complete with returning "to a higher plane of existence" when they rejoined). I think MrCharisma has the best guess that they (and the urRu/mystics) would be a form of native outsider, one evil, one good, and one of their features would be a lifebond with a counterpart.
They're supposed to be bird/lizard hybrid, and stats could be adapted from similar creatures (though I personally wouldn't use pure tengu, they could be a place to start)
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