Marid

Marid

“	You know the genie? From Aladdin? Think that, but without the whole song and dance number about being your best friend. A Marid is more like the red one. Phenomenal cosmic power and a god-complex.	„
	~ Johnny Blaze

A Marid is the most powerful class of Jinn and the most favored amongst the spirits by Iblis himself. They are in fact what inspired the mythical and seemingly all-powerful genie due to their own enormous power.

Description

Marid are arrogant and proud, and as such can be compelled to perform chores. They are physically powerful, knowledgeable and can be either benevolent or outright malignant. Like every jinn, they have free will. They can become companions to humans but it involves battle, imprisonment, rituals, or copious amounts of flattery.

Overview

Marid are the most powerful jinn ever conceived, having a vast array of fantastical powers. Because of their immense power, there are very few of them around, likely because of the threat they posed even to one as powerful Iblis. It is also implied that Iblis took precaution on how to employ the Marid when he is in need of a task that required more efficiently extreme means.

It is likely they were created as all jinn and that is with Vril, however, according to an Ifrit known as Ghaddar, the Marid, in the midst of their creation took the lion's share of the Secret Fire which in turn bestowed them with their overwhelming power. Seeing this as well as the threat they posed to humanity, God cast them into bronze urns or jars and sealing them by carving His ineffable name where they would never be able to see the light of day.

Marids are mentioned in pre-Islamic Arabian mythology and inside the One Thousand and One Nights alongside the Jinn in the story of The Fisherman and the Jinni. While having phenomenal power they can still be under the control of the one who holds their prison like any jinn but they are, however, perhaps the most difficult to control and sway to their master's side. The only individual at the time who could control the Marid with little effort was King Solomon himself.