Talk:Sea Sprite (D&D creatures)
I searched for an appropriate name or mythological source for this. Both Nerids and Sirines exist in DnD as medium-size creatures. The closest to this seems to be the Putti, but that has no specific link to water.
Overall, the fact that nixies in DnD are small has very little support in mythology. Since the DnD nixie is a modern invention, I suppose we should feel free to continue in this spirit of invention and create more versions of it.
Possible names not currently used in DnD:
- Melusine - often refers to a mermaid with two leg-like tails, just what we do not want. Also depicted as medium-size.
- Oceanid is a Greek relative of the Sirine and Nereid, and so should probably be medium-size.
- Morgens is a name that tells me nothing, but which seems to be a sea-version of the nix or nixie, just what we are looking for.
- Undine or Undine is the name of water elementals in Runequest, and that is what the word means to me. If you beleive Wikipedia, she is a general water nymph, not restricted to any particular type of water. Sort of a class-name for all nixies.
- Merle just sounds better to me than Merie, which just sounds like a name in Frnch.
--Abbe 17:41, 8 August 2007 (CEST)
I invented the name as pure "change first letter"-parallell:
- Pixie -> Nixie
- Aerie -> Maerie -> Merie,
once I noticed the Mer- prefix. I considered it a bonus that Google could not find any occurences of anything spelled that way other than acronyms. :)
But there is no prestige attached to that - if we can nab something mythological, I'm all for it.
Trivia: I think Melusine was a snake-maiden in Hexikon, , i.e. a Naga.
Regarding size: size small is important for me, since Polymorph (D&D spell) says:
Cannot be smaller than Fine nor more than one category larger than the targets normal size.
And Alter Self says:
The new form must be within one size category of your normal size
--Mats 20:09, 8 August 2007 (CEST)
More about undines:
--Mats 00:35, 9 August 2007 (CEST)
