Yuan-Ti, Athasian

Description

The Yuan-Ti are a race of human that have been distorted by magic. They all have varying degrees of snakelike body parts. They are highly intelligent and evil, always plotting to advance their causes. There are three types of Yuan-Ti: Pureblood, Halfbreeds, and abominations.

Pure Blood: A pure blood can pass for human 80% of the time. It has only slight differences from true humans, such as slit eyes, a forked tongue, or maybe even small fangs.

Halfbreed: Halfbreeds are part human and part snake. Roll d10 twice on the following table, duplicate rolls are not re-rolled. Ignore unworkable combinations.

Abomination: Abominations are either all snake (50%) or have either a human head or human arms and are always about 10 feet long. Halfbreeds and Abominations disdain wearing human clothes or armor, while purebloods do not care. All Yuan-Ti use weapons and other items. Yuan-Ti do not give an odor that humans can detect, but the L’Sstan-Ti can instantly recognize one . Yuan-Ti coloring varies from simple green and brown scales to wild patterns of stripes, diamonds, and whorls of every color. Yuan-Ti speak their own tongue. They can also speak with snakes or snakelike creatures. Those Yuan-Ti with human heads can speak the Trade tongue also.

Combat

Yuan-Ti are geniuses and fight as such. They plan elaborate traps and utilize their surroundings superbly. They prefer ambushes to direct combat. When they attack directly they try to outnumber their foes as much as possible. In a mixed group the least valuable attack the opponent first. This means that the purebloods go, then the halfbreeds, then the abominations. The only exception to this rule is the L’Sstan-Ti, which the Abominations attack personally. When not found in their temple they are encountered in groups of one to four. In their homes and temples they are found in much larger groups.

Purebloods have 6 HD, halfbreeds have 7 or 8 HD, and abominations have 9 HD. All Yuan-Ti, if they have hands, use weapons, preferring those that have edges. Yuan-Ti love to use slow acting poisons, but they only use poison on their traps, never on weapons.

Any Yuan-Ti, be it pureblood, halfbreed, or abomination, with a human head can cast the following spells once per day: Cause fear, Darkness 15’ Radius, Snake Charm, Sticks to Snakes, Neutralize Poison, Suggestion, and Polymorph Other.

Habitat/Society

Yuan-Ti are worshippers of the powerful defiler Send Yuan and worship him as a god, they also hold reptiles in high esteem. The center of Yuan-Ti life is the Temple. Temple architecture tends towards circles with ramps and poles instead of stairs. The abominations rule over the Yuan-Ti, and are the leaders of the Temple, with the high priest (full snake) ruling over all, second only to Send Yuan. Many Yuan-Ti rituals involve bloody sacrifices to their Defiler God.

Ecology

Hundreds of years ago Send Yuan, a powerful defiler even then , aspired to create his own race. Much like Dregoth of Giustenal Send was plagued by failure, but instead of cursing his "failures" he used all of his new race to his advantage. Even though Send uses the purebloods for outside dealings as soon as their use is over he will have them all killed along with their halfbreed brethren. In the end only the abominations have Send’s favor.

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Athasian Names by Letter

Compiled by Emanuele Sacchi

A

• Abalach-re (human female)
• Abyuuk (elf male)
• Agis (human male)
• Agu (human male)
• Alaa (elf female)
• Albeorn (human male)
• Alicious (elf female)
• Alie (half-elf female)
• Alvys (elf male)
• Amandia (human female)
• Anavias (human female)
• Andiama (human female)
• Andropinis (human male)
• Anezka (halfling female)
• Antrifos (human male)
• Arbistor (human male)
• Areela (elf female)
• Arelia (elf female)
• Arien (elf male)
• Arisphistaneles (human male)
• Aristes (human male)
• Arvos (elf male)
• Arya (half-elf female)
• Aso (half-elf female)
• Astara (human female)
• Astemba (human male)
• Astini (human male)
• Athrialix (human male)
• Atrocla (half-giant female)
• Aukash-pad (human male)
• Averil (human female)
• Azhul (half-giant male)
• Azzer (human male)

B

• Bademyr (elf male)
• Banoc (human male)
• Banther (human male)
• Barak (elf male)
• Barakah (human female)
• Bartis (human male)
• Bartras (human male)
• Barunus (dwarf male)
• Beort (giant male)
• Beryl (human male)
• Bevus (human male)
• Birgaz (dwarf male)
• Boaz (half-elf male)
• Bontar (dwarf male)
• Borger (human male)
• Borjaanu (elf male)
• Borys (human male)
• Botuu (elf male)
• Brazin (half-elf male)
• Brevit (human male)
• Brita (giant female)
• Brul (dwarf male)
• Buris (human female)
• Bythal (human male)

C

• C'hel (elf male)
• Caelum (dwarf male)
• Caldon (human male)
• Caletta (human female)
• Camla (human female)
• Canth (human male)
• Caro (dwarf male)
• Catalyna (human female)
• Catrion (human female)
• Celba (elf female)
• Ceu'lo'ewn (mul male)
• Cha (halfling male)
• Charl (human male)
• Chessia (human female)
• Chilo (tarek male)
• Chimali (human male)
• Chirl (elf male)
• Chkak-a-chakk (thri-kreen)
• Clavis (human male)
• Cocoton (mul male)
• Coranuu (elf male)
• Crag (half-giant male)
• Crekun (elf male)
• Cybrian (human male)
• Cyne (elf male)

D

• Daclamitus (human male)
• Dahn-gen (human male)
• Daled (dwarf male)
• Damras (human female)
• Darian (human male)
• Darzus (elf male)
• Den-du (half-giant male)
• Derlan (halfling male)
• Derrim (half-elf male)
• Deryssa (elf female)
• Deva (human female)
• Dhojakt (human/cilops male)
• Domitian (human male)
• Doorub (half-giant male)
• Dorjan (human female)
• Dornal (human male)
• Dote (human male)
• Drewet (half-elf female)
• Drog (dwarf male)
• Dukkoti (elf male)
• Durwadala (thri-kreen)
• Duukodo (elf male)
• Dyan (human male)
• Dylauris (elf male)

E

• E'la (human female)
• Eevuu (elf male)
• Ekee (elf female)
• Elas (elf female)
• Enala (elf female)
• Er'stali (human male)
• Er'thork (human male)
• Ero (half-elf male)
• Esreva (human male)
• Esylk (elf female)
• Etheros (human male)
• Evrim (human male)

F

• Faenaeyon (elf male)
• Faldar (human male)
• Faria (human female)