Malisons exhibit snakelike features that make them deadly in combat.
Type 3. These malisons are human from the waist up, but below that extend the coils of a giant snake.
Malisons possesses deadly venom, which some manipulate into magical strikes. They can also shape-shift into snakes, helping them to position themselves for surprise attacks or to slither away with nary a trace.
Exploiting pacts with sinister supernatural forces, yuan-ti bargain away their humanity for the lethality and predatory deviousness of serpents. From hidden bastions, they manipulate rulers and the wealthy, seeking to control the world. Many yuan-ti possess venomous magic, which often manifests as fangs or striking serpents.
Yuan-ti have humanlike forms with a variety of horrifying serpentine transformations. Some have a scattering of reptilian scales, while others are giants that are more snake than human. Typically, the more snakelike yuan-ti are, the greater esteem they hold among their kind.
Yuan-ti might gain their reptilian features through dangerous supernatural rites. Roll on or choose a result from the Yuan-ti Transformations table to inspire how yuan-ti obtain their serpentine aspects.
Yuan-ti Transformations
dice: 1d6
A Yuan-ti Gained Its Snake Features From…
1
Bargaining parts of its soul to a pantheon of serpentine demigods.
2
A curse laid on its people in the distant past.
3
The dream-venom of Merrshaulk, a slumbering snake god.
4
Experiments by spirit nagas or other yuan-ti.
5
A ritual involving the skin of a fiendish snake.
6
Trials to excise its “weak” human parts.
^yuan-ti-transformations
A quote from Last Message of Sorril Venil, Explorer of the Labyrinth of Madness
Great magic, twisted and corrupted… Malice beyond reckoning… Flesh reshaped, becoming serpentine horrors…
