Editing Marut (section)

==AD&D==
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Maruts made their first appearance in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition, where they are stated and detailed in passing in the original [[Manual of the Planes]] [[splatbook]]. This information is extremely bare-bones; maruts are presented as [[golem]]-like servitors of the god Rudra, having the form of "great, red-eyed, unliving giants carved from polished black stone and dressed in gold armor with wide plates on the shoulders and armbands".

They would subsequently be updated to 2nd edition in the Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix. Although described in more detail here, the base concept is still quite simple; maruts are literally [[angel]]-[[golem]]s, combining divine power and allegiance to a deity with the single-minded purposefulness of a golem. They exist only to serve their god's will; nothing more. Though still described as having been first created by Rudra, they have also spread into the hands of other gods, mostly as payments from Rudra.
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