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| Sentynel | Dec 15 2008, 01:07 AM Post #46 |
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I searched the books using amazon.com and can't find that bit, but I'm positive something Barti-related described marids as water spirits. Argh. The books do describe djinni as fire and air spirits and afrits as fire spirits, but I can't find a similar description for marids.. |
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| Captain Internets | Dec 15 2008, 01:07 AM Post #47 |
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Well, look harder! |
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| Nero | Dec 15 2008, 01:09 AM Post #48 |
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Didn't he mention it in GE, I think around Honorius's dive into the water? Or was it just about afrits being of fire? Then I'm sure Mrs. Underwood described a marid... |
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| Captain Internets | Dec 15 2008, 01:10 AM Post #49 |
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That was afrits she described wasn't it? |
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| Nero | Dec 15 2008, 01:13 AM Post #50 |
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I know that, but wasn't also marids? |
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| Captain Internets | Dec 15 2008, 01:14 AM Post #51 |
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I'll go get my copy and see Edit: Mrs Underwood says Afrits are demons of fire...doesn't mention marids though...sorry Edited by Captain Internets, Dec 15 2008, 01:17 AM.
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| Umbreo | Dec 15 2008, 01:37 AM Post #52 |
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keep looking, you may have heard that marids are water spirits on some other site or interview or something; but i maintain that it never describes marids as water spirits in the trilogy. |
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| Dansariki | Dec 15 2008, 03:49 AM Post #53 |
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Like everything else in The Bartimaeus Universe, Stroud did his homework. Marids, like Afrits ('ifrits'), Djinn (Say 'Genie' and 'Djinni') and Imps are primarily based on Arabian folklore and myth. Mentioned in the Quran, Marids are spirits of water, and are described as arrogant and exceptionally powerful. This information is never present within the Trilogy, so far as I can tell. It is also missing from Stroud's site. I will read through the books again, but I think I'm actually to blame for this. I have a habit of stating opinion or facts of questionable provability as true fact. Knowing what I knew, I probably said at some time or another here that Marid's were that of water, and off it went. Sorry.
Edited by Dansariki, Dec 15 2008, 03:51 AM.
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| Umbreo | Dec 15 2008, 10:37 PM Post #54 |
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Thought that might have been the case. Maybe you should ask Jonathan Stroud? |
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| Sentynel | Dec 16 2008, 12:39 AM Post #55 |
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Question asked. |
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| Umbreo | Dec 16 2008, 12:42 AM Post #56 |
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what, just now or already been asked? |
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| Sentynel | Dec 16 2008, 12:48 AM Post #57 |
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Just now. |
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| Umbreo | Dec 16 2008, 12:56 AM Post #58 |
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about how often does JS read and answer questions? |
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| Captain Internets | Dec 16 2008, 12:56 AM Post #59 |
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Once in a blue moon. |
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| Umbreo | Dec 16 2008, 01:02 AM Post #60 |
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so . . . irregularly |
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