Yuan-Ti abominations appear as anthropomorphic serpents, and are taller than other Yuan-Ti. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, and your choice between either Draconic, or Abyssal. You can cast animal friendship(snakes only) at will. You have resistance to poison damage, and advantage on saving throws related to poison.ĭarkvision. Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. They are typically Neutral Evil, though some exceptions exist. They all mature at age 8, as their parents almost never wish to care for them for too long.Īlignment. Yuan-Ti are almost always in service of their god. Insane serpentine cultists, Yuan-Ti are as terrifying as they are insane.Ībility Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.Īge. Yuan-Ti Abominations can live for 200 years, Malisons 150, and Purebloods 100. Yuan-ti sur names are short and follow after primary names with a hyphen, and are pronounced with the primary name i.e. Yuan-Ti names are meant to sound fearsome, exotic, and are meant to strike fear. Salanditian and Lizardfolk have an especially deep hatred, due to the transformation of the latter into the former from them. Yuan-Ti are hated by almost all, and hate almost all. Almost all strangers are captured and sacrificed to a serpent god, when they are within a few hundred yards of a yuan-ti settlement. There is no gender roles, but most yuan-ti are warriors. They have no sense of honorable combat and strike first in decisive ambush if they can. The leader of a yuan-ti society, which is similar to a village, typically in a jungle, are cunning and ruthless, who readily sacrifice lesser yuan-ti if potential victory justifies such losses. The yuan-ti strive for ascension and are willing to commit the darkest atrocities to achieve it. A yuan-ti believes an individual who attains enough power can devour and replace one of the yuan-ti gods. Instead, they see worship as a means to attain power. Yuan-ti life revolves around their temples, yet yuan-ti don't love the gods they worship. Through foul sorcery, the yuan-ti bred with snakes, utterly sacrificing their humanity to become like the serpent gods in form, as well as in thought and emotion. Cults bound themselves to the worship of the serpent gods and imitated their ways, indulging in cannibalism and humanoid sacrifice. The yuan-ti religion grew more fanatical in its devotion. In time, the serpent gods heard those prayers, their sibilant voices responding from the darkness as they told the yuan-ti what they must do. Yuan-ti temples stood at the centers of ancient metropolises, reaching ever higher in prayer to the gods they longed to emulate. Their warriors were legendary, their empires always expanding. Yuan-ti culture was among the richest in the mortal world. Their advanced philosophy taught the virtue of detachment from emotion and of clear, focused thought. They lauded the serpent's sinuous flexibility, its calculated poise, and its deadly strike. The yuan-ti were once humans who thrived in the earliest days of civilization and worshipped serpents as totem animals. Malisons and Purebloods are roughly 5-6 feet tall, while Abominations are roughly 6-7 feet tall. Their eye color can be either green, yellow, or red, while their scales can be a multitude of colors, including green, grey, blue, yellow, black, white, and red. Abominations appear like an anthropomorphic snake, Malisons appear like either a human body with a snake head or a human upper body with a snake lower body, and Purebloods appear almost exactly like humans do, just with snake-like eyes and patches of scale-like skin. Yuan-Ti are a half-snake half-human race, however their appearance differs depending on their subrace. From Masters of the Forbidden City by Codo Vidak "The Yuan-Ti cast off their humanity long ago, and with it, their sanity." Yuan-Ti Abomination, as it appears in 5e's Monster Manual.
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