Genie in Popular Culture - Marid

Marid

• Marids are found in the Bartimaeus Trilogy. They are the highest in the order of beings that includes afrits, jinn, foliots and imps.

• Marids are mentioned in the P. B. Kerr's Children of the Lamp children's book series as the most powerful tribe of jinn, who preside over good luck.

• Marid is one of the elemental enemies in the video game Vagrant Story. Its appearance resembles that of a bluish humanoid with fins and webbed feet, and it wears a distinctive, coned-shaped piece of headgear.

• Marids are included in Microsoft's Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends. They are blue-colored genies who hurl spheres of elemental energy at their enemies.

• Marid is a playable elemental character in the SNES game Arcana, also known as Card Master: the Seal of Rimsala. Marid appears as a mini-boss in the game who must be defeated before she can be recruited to the player's team. She is the main healer of the group and is effective when confronting high-powered villains in the game.

• Marids appear in Final Fantasy XI as large, elephant-like beasts. They were introduced in the Treasures of Aht Urgan expansion pack, which contains themes largely based on Arabian mythology.

• Several Marids appear in Christopher Stasheff's 'Wizard in Rhyme' novels Crusading Wizard, and My Son, the Wizard.