Marid

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Marid

General characteristics and biology:

These sentient mineral gems push the boundaries of what is considered life. You see, most of the time you wouldn?t know they were not human. Because they have the inexplicable ability to gather water around them as give it shape and texture, allowing them to take just about any form to about two meters tall. Thus many who have come across a Marid might have never noticed anything amiss, maybe one was at that corner store you just got a soda from, ringing it up for you. The gem tend to collect and purify a mass of water to their purposes, each having its own taste. Additionally, Marids have a rather slow metabolism, needing maybe an ounce of water adsorbed into their gem bodies annually.

You see, outside their natural environment, Marids are masters of disguise. If one were to find its way to earth, it would stay there until it found itself by chance in a body of water larger than a kiddie pool. Pulling the water into a collection of gelatin mass, it would form a human, or other animal body. Already having studied examples that passed by the Marid gem, it would take on the mannerisms of the mimicked species. Living perpetually immortal compared to humanoid raced, even mimicking the effects of aging, learning as much as it can.

Marids have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, even something mundane to another entity would fascinate a Marid, and it would want every detail. With a natural Eidetic memory, Marids do not write down their knowledge, they tend to selfishly hoard it in an almost Draconic manner. Maybe a Marid wants to study human behavior, the Marid would install itself in a position that allows for a great varity of interesting, sometimes as a cashier. Marids lack a sense of morality, so if a Marid waned to know about how an adult of any sentient species raised its young. It would dispose of a current child and take its form, allowing itself to be raised by that species.

The gems that are the true Marid are between hues of turquoise to emerald. Truly ancient Marids would appear to be a diamond, when in actuality they?re not.  These gems can range between pea to marble size, how these sample gem get water to collect and center around them is a mystery, much less how they can make it change color and texture to suit their needs. Another mystery is how these small gems achieved sentience.


Society and Reproduction:

Marids originate from a gas giant that has dense high pressure atmosphere. Additionally, this gas giant orbit close enough to its star to have an orbiting cycle of seventeen days. The high pressure coupled with the intense temperature of being so close to its star have created a phenomena called ?Boiling Water Ice?. You see, due to the pressure technically all the matter on the Marid homeworld is frozen over, yet the temperatures causing them to boil as well. The sample 5% of the planet surface that is water has been witness to a strange chain of evolution, eventually producing the Marid.

Each Marid belongs to a originating Parent Gem. These Parent Gem are incredibly massive and never leave the homeworld. The Parent Gem has a strange and massive intelligence that cannot be comprehended in human terms. The Parent Gem will shed a layer of its ?skin? once ever earth decade, creating thousands of new Marids. The parent Gem being able to communicate with its colony of young telepathically, the Parent Gem?s will is law. However, even the Parent gem does not escape the inate thirst for knowledge that all Marids have. Sending Marids into space and to other planets to gather knowledge of all kinds.


Right now, there are two surface Parent Gems. Meaning that two masses of boiling ice that is the Marid?s natural niche is currently on the surface of the Gas giant. Deep or Lost Parent Gems are in great number, meaning their mass of boiling water sunk into the mass of the gas giant. Even one of these surfacing could potentially disturb the current balance of power.

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[Admiral Regis Hermitage]

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