Maride (EAPEU)

The **Maride** are elemental genies of Water and the final life stage of the **Maride** race. They are capable of conjuring storms, creating water sources and granting vitality. **Marides** are the beings responsible for all the water sources found through all the known verses.

## Physiology

**Marides** resemble smaller versions of Hydros, the Water Primordial. They are formed of living water and a core which is the basis for their being and growth, energy cannot be destroyed only transformed as such a **Maride** acquires more and more power throughout its lifecycle if a **Maride** is killed then its energy is stored in its elemental core and only after the core is destroyed or the energy in the core spent can the energy return to the Elemental Plane of Water.

## Lifecycle

### Water Mephits

The first stage in the **Maride** life-cycle, a weaker servile 'larval' form of the **Maride**.

**Water Mephits** are incessant tricksters that delight in setting traps for unsuspecting passersby. They favor the relative safety of water, but will gladly trek outside their comfort zone to execute a new prank. They are often found in the service of Water Elementals and/or their parent Maride.

### Water Daemons

The second stage in the **Maride** life-cycle, a Water Daemon forms either by enough **Water Mephits** fusing together which is more commonly how Water Daemons come into being or on rare occasion through age.

A juvenile Maride it is unable to grant powerful wishes but can still grant great magical capacities to mages if they know how to use them.

### Water Elementals

The third stage in the **Maride** life-cycle.

An almost fully grown **Maride** as it grows older and stronger it will eventually become a **Maride**. Though the process can take centuries. Though they share the same name, mage made Elementals are usually made of materials found in the world, while the Elemental of the Genie life-cycle is made up of pure elemental chaos.

### Maride

Full-grown members of the race.

A Genie of Water, it is said that the first **Marides** were made by the Water Primodial, Hydros the same way **Marides** created Water Mephits, by extracting a piece of their essence and shattering it, and the pieces became the first **Marides**.

## Abilities

* **Asexual Reproduction**: **Maride** can reproduce their species without the requirement of a partner or mate.
	+ **Population Augmentation**: The **Maride** can add to their own population, mainly by creating new members of that population, namely Water Mephits which are the youngest form of the **Maride**
* **Dimensional Travel**: **Maride** can travel between different dimensions and universes, and cross over different planes of existence or travel across various forms of reality. The **Maride** can travel to alternate universe/other earths or even pocket dimensions.
* **Water Magic**: **Maride** are able to perform a form of magic that allows the user to cast magical spells and feats through water.
	+ **Water Absorption**: **Marides** can absorb water in all its forms from the atmosphere, bodies of water or living creatures, while removing it from the source, into their body and use it in various ways.
	+ **Water Breath**: **Marides** are able to generate and manipulate water within them in a way that allows them to shape the exhaling of the effect. These shapes can include bursts, streams, spheres, and even a mist of it from the mouth.
		- **Water Ball Projection**:
		- **Water Beam Emission**:
	+ **Water Generation**: **Marides** are able to generate water from their own body and/or thin air.
	+ **Water Manipulation**: **Marides** can create, shape, and manipulate water, inorganic compound with liquid, gas (steam, water vapor), and solid (ice) states, including changing them from one state to others.
	+ **Water Mimicry**: Due to their body being water imbued with elemental power from their core, Marides have physical bodies made up of water.