Marling Baba: Gelfling Traveller Marionette Puppet

🌍 "Every path tells a story, and I've walked them all..." ✨

Meet Marling Baba, the wandering gelfling whose feet have touched more corners of Thra than any of his kin dare dream. While most gelflings stay close to their clans and villages, Marling represents something rare and wonderful: a gelfling consumed by wanderlust, driven not by duty or destiny, but by an insatiable hunger for stories.

Marling didn't set out to become a legendary traveller - it started with simple curiosity. As a young gelfling, he'd sneak away from his village to explore the next valley, the next forest, the next mountain pass. Each journey brought new tales: the song of a podling farmer, the warning of a mystic, the legend whispered by wind through ancient stones. He collected these stories like others collect gemstones, and soon realized that the world was far bigger and more magical than anyone in his village understood.

Now, Marling Baba is known across Thra as the Gelfling Traveller - the one who appears in remote villages with tales of distant lands, who can guide lost wanderers through treacherous terrain, who knows the safe paths and the dangerous ones. He's walked through the Crystal Desert, climbed the peaks of the Grottan territories, sailed the Silver Sea, and danced with the Sifa. His weathered pack carries maps drawn on bark, tokens from a hundred friendships, and journals filled with stories that would take lifetimes to tell.

But Marling's greatest gift isn't just collecting stories - it's sharing them. He believes that stories connect all the peoples of Thra, that understanding each other's tales can bridge the gaps between clans and cultures. In a world threatened by darkness, Marling Baba travels on, weaving connections through the simple magic of storytelling.

Inspired by The Dark Crystal: This gelfling marionette celebrates the incredible world of Thra created by Jim Henson and Brian Froud, reimagined through our own artistic vision with exaggerated colors, repurposed jewelry, and unique character details that honor the diversity and wonder of the Gelfling race.

What Makes This Special:

• Handcrafted gelfling inspired marionette
• Unique traveller character with adventurous spirit
• Exquisite detail with reconstructed jewelry and found objects
• Tribute to The Dark Crystal and Age of Resistance
• Fully articulated with professional marionette stringing
• Doll form: approximately 25cm tall
• As marionette: 60cm when hanging
• Perfect for Dark Crystal fans and fantasy collectors

Fantasy Collection: All things magical and mystical! An intimate escape from everyday routines, fantasy is a door into something out-of-this-world where history and mythology collide to create brave new worlds of discovery. Never stop dreaming!