High Lamia

The original form of Lamia

All female race

Base Racial Traits

Ability Score Modifiers: High Lamia were supremely dextrous and insanely beautiful, far in excess of the norm on both fronts. As they devoured other creatures, they were known to be able to take some of their power as their own, becoming stronger, faster, smarter, etc. with each prey they devoured.
Size: High Lamia began as large sized creatures, but the more HD worth of creatures they consumed, the bigger they grew, without any conceivable limit.
Type: High Lamia were suprisingly close in nature to ancient True Dragons, and were likely creatures of the Dragon type.
Speed: High Lamia had a base movement speed double that of most humanoid races, and could burrow as fast as others could move over land.
Vision: High Lamia had dragon senses, giving them both darkvision and low-light vision.
Languages: High Lamia spoke Common and Draconic most commonly.
Dominating Perfection: One of the key abilities that made High Lamia so dangerous. If a creature intending on attacking them had less CHA than them, they needed to succeed on a test of willpower to even take aggressive action against them no matter the form it took, be it spells, attacks, insults, or even simply defying their words. This also meant they could not resist the High Lamia's aggressive advances, as their pheremones seeped into their mind.
Stand still and digest: Any creature that failed to muster up the willpower to resist "Dominating Perfection" was not allowed another test of will until the High Lamia had gulped and swallow them, and they had begun to digest in their stomachs. By then, it was almost invariably too late.
Flawless Swallow: High Lamia could swallow creatures up to their size as easy as breathing, and could do so incredibly fast.
Unbreakable Swallow: Unlike Lamia of the modern day, High Lamia had scales inside their stomachs as well, making it much more difficult for prey to escape both in how hard it was to damage them from the inside and how much damage one needed to do to escape.
There is no escape: High Lamia were so inhumanely dextrous and well-armored in scales they could use their dexterity to control their scales and internal organs, letting them bring much more defenses to bear against those trying to escape their stomachs.
High Lamia Swallow Whole: High Lamia could devour other creatures whole, their stomachs eating away at their foes with a massive amount of acid and the tight, bludgeoning walls that compacted and chewed those inside them.
Redundant Organs: High Lamia had several sets of redundant organs and interlocking stomachs both to let them swallow more prey but to also ensure they survive even if one or two of their major organs are destroyed. They could have dozens of creatures swallowed at a time, and their unique bodies could negate especially critical or dangerous hits with alarming regularity.
Devouring Bite: High Lamia had fangs as sharp as razors, If they successfully bit a target, they could make an immediate attempt to swallow the target. If the target of the bite had failed to resist dominating perfection recently, the high lamia auto-succeeded on their grapple check to swallow them.
Tail Slam: High Lamia had thick and muscular prehensile tails they could use to retrieve items stored on their person and could make attacks with it against others. They could immediately snatch up those they hit with their tail attacks, and could hold creatures in their tails without being grappled themselves at no penalty.
Constrict: High Lamia were born with the knowledge of how to crush their prey within their muscular coiled tails, crushing and breaking the bodies of those they grappled.
Crushing Coils: High Lamia had tails so mucular and powerful, not only could they hold creatures in their grip better thanks to highly developed musculature, but every creature they had held in their tail or in their grip had to make tests of constitution each round they remained in a High Lamia's clutches or IMMEDIATELY fall unconscious for up to a minute from the overwhelming constricting force.
Fleshgoddess: Another ability that made the High Lamia so feared. For every 100 or so peasants consumed(Less for stronger morsels), a High Lamia's body filled out and burgeoned with new flesh, making them even more gorgeous, personable, and beautiful, increasing their CHA score. They could grow like this without end.
On your knees, morsel: High Lamias were so innately dominating and forceful that their words alone carry the weight of a god. A High Lamia auto-succeeded on all intimidation or charismatic tests of skill to intimidate or demoralize their foes. Such intimidations and demoralization effects lasted twice as long and had their penalties doubled.
Suffocate, Strangle, Die: High Lamia could smother and strangle those they had in their scaley grip rather easily, and often did so.
Kneel before my beauty: Potentially THE MOST deadly High Lamia ability. If they had a CHA score that was sufficiently higher than their foe, they auto succeeded on all charm effects against them. Their charm effects always pierced immunities and gained massive bonuses to their DCs, regardless.
Weaponmasters: High Lamia mastered the use of every weapon they wielded after conquering the known world, and encoded that knowledge into their very genetics. They were proficient with every weapon they wielded, and gained "Weapon Focus" and "Weapon Specialization" with them.
Shapechangers: High Lamia gained the change shape Universal Monster rule into a humanoid form of their choosing, as an Extraordinary ability.
Racial Memory: High Lamia had the memory of their people encoded in their genetics, and gained a free racial feat every level.
Hatred, Orc: High Lamia hated none more than the Ancient High Orcs, and trained zealously to fight them.
Ancient Foe, Orc: High Lamia hated none more than the Ancient High Orcs, and trained zealously to grab and avoid their strikes.

Basic Information

Anatomy

They had two arms and no legs, instead having thick muscular tails that were often as thick as a normal sized human and allowed them normal locomotion. They also had several sets of redundant organs and even a second nervous system within their bodies, which made them even harder to kill than normal by allowing them to continue life when other creatures would have long ago died.
Their jaws were specially formed through evolution and were capable of unhinging and expanding to enormous sizes to allow them to swallow massive prey, where they would promptly be swallowed and sent down their throats into one of several awaiting stomachs that High Lamia were known to possess, which allowed them to devour countless prey before becoming truly 'full'. Those swallowed by them were condemned to a grisly fate in their stomachs, as High Lamia often kept their meals 'simmering' inside them for days on end to provide continuous nourishment and effective feeding...thus dooming those swallowed to being slowly and painfully digested over the course of days.
Once their prey is digested, High Lamia could, thanks to their unique stomachs and digestive system, channel the organic slurry leftover from their meals into their own bodies and use it for countless purposes from healing wounds and even filling out their own bodies to become even more beautiful or increasing the potency of their pheromones.

Biological Traits

High Lamia were exclusively female, and possessed bodies that were unilaterally incredibly beautiful by nearly all definitions of the word. Their bodies were muscular but supple, fair-toned and beautiful, and uniquely their bodies contained several unique glands that allowed them to produce pheromones that often exuded from their skin and pores during times of stress, high physical activity, intense situations or rarely at will by those learned to control such a power. These pheromones wrapped those near them in a sweet scent and lowered their guard to allow the Lamia to devour them more easily. It is these pheromones as well that allow the High Lamia to control other creatures with their words alone, the words they speak combining with their pheromones to create an irresistible urge to obey them. Similarly, it is these pheromones that seep into the pores of their foes when they go to strike them and force them to halt their blows as their senses and mind is overwhelmed with the sickly sweet smell and power of the pheromones.

Genetics and Reproduction

High Lamia, being an all-female species, required other species to reproduce through sexual reproduction, at which point they carry their young inside of their massive tails for safekeeping for a period of 5-7 months, at which point they gave birth to their children similar to Humans.

Growth Rate & Stages

High Lamia grow to adulthood in just a scant ten years. During the course of their lives High Lamia are constantly growing, and can grow nearly infinitely if they continue to consume prey and digest them...for around each one hundred creatures they consume(Or Less, depending on the strength of the prey) their bodies undergo a quantitative change and nearly double in height and length, and quadruple in weight. There was never any known limit to the growth of a High Lamia, and they could eventually become as large as mountains through continuous consumption.

Ecology and Habitats

High Lamia could reasonable survive in most climes, but as they were cold-blooded creatures they could not much stand the cold. When settling in an area, High Lamia often subjugated all other creatures in the area and herded them into large "food farms" where they were bred like cattle and used for High Lamia meals...in this way, they often conquered and enslaved nearly all regions they visited, turning those races they captured into food to be consumed at the whims of their beautiful High Lamia overlords. However, they took good care of the land they lived upon, and often did good to the environments they visited by thinning out predatory species and prey species alike and allowing the ecosystem to 'reset'.

Dietary Needs and Habits

High Lamia were carnivores through and through, and almost exclusively feasted on live prey. They often captured prey alive and swallowed then digested them whole so as to ensure not a single atom of their foe went to waste.

Biological Cycle

High Lamia age slower than normal, and each year a High Lamia would seek out a secluded spot(often the safety of their own home or tent), and shed their skin so that they could grow newer, stronger, and more beautiful skin and scales.

Additional Information

Social Structure

High Lamia society was one where beauty and strength equaled prestige. The largest, most beautiful, and strongest of their kind rapidly ascended to places of power to rule over their tribe-like society, where they hunted freely and consumed ravenously. Highly united compared to other similarly savage species, High Lamia had bonds so tight and close that they found it anathema to their very core to attack or eat another of their kind, seeing it as a waste when other more viable prey exist. They had a strong, strong sense of community and when a leader appeared, they often followed without hesitation despite their qualms...this trait is directly responsible for their monumentally fast rise to power, as it was nigh impossible for High Lamia to turn on one another so long as a figure of power existed, and even when one was absent they were incredibly quick to commune and adapt as a community, and virtually never in-fought or fell into civil war.
In High Lamia society, the act of eating and consumption was their most sacred act and one to be revered. Even after they achieved a high level of civilization, this trait manifested in a love of communal mealtimes and large feasts where large numbers of High Lamia banded together and enjoyed consuming dozens of live prey together as sisters and family. Likewise, the lives of non-lamia were virtually worthless to them and almost never were even considered anything more than cattle. Other life was simply food to be snacked on, relished, and enjoyed...and often, a High Lamia would ascend to power by showcasing a powerful foe she had beaten in public displays of her power, showing off the helplessness of her foe by squeezing, crushing, breaking, and even publicly consuming those they conquered to prove their might. In this way, High Lamia familial units made with the offspring sired from captured foes were incredibly tight knit and closely bonded.
Outside of the role of Queen or ruler, High Lamia lacked much, if any, coherent social structure. There was simply the Queen, and the rest...nothing less or more. They were often divided according to their specialty for ease of living, but thanks to their highly developed sense of unity they rarely found the need to divide themselves in any significant way, as each individual simply worked towards the betterment of the tribe or species. Even when they formed together and made a nation late in their development, they merely divided themselves into various spheres of control based on their skills or professions.

Facial characteristics

High Lamia had a similar variability and variety to their facial structures as humans.

Average Intelligence

Highly Intelligence and highly predatory. Natural Born Predator mindset, and often thought in terms of predator and prey. Believed strength and beauty made things right.

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Thanks to their draconic heritage, High Lamia could see excellently in the dark, and their serpentine eyes allowed them to see almost perfectly in conditions of low light.

Civilization and Culture

Beauty Ideals

High Lamia beauty ideals were primarily physical, and they placed little importance on the mental or aspects beyond the physical. They favored large, curvy bodies, thick muscular tails as well as muscular arms and bodies, yet also strove to keep a healthy balance of fat on themselves, which they believed to be a sign of their feasts. Size as well was highly praised by them, and the larger a High Lamia became the more beautiful she was.

Courtship Ideals

High Lamia had little notion of courtship in any traditional sense, and rarely understood or cared for romantic endeavors. Instead, they were more akin to ravenous beasts and preferred to take those they thought were attractive or likable by force, stealing them away and forcing all their desires and courtships onto them until their desires were expended and spent, at which point they discarded their broken toys like dolls. Often, those they abducted in this way died from the force of their bestial affections.

Relationship Ideals

High Lamias rarely considered their bestial romps and often lethal displays of affection to their captured prey "Relationships", instead seeing them as tools and outlets for their passions. For their relationship needs, they often turned to each other and found "mates" among their own kind that were often borne of mutual respect or sometimes even love, but due to a lack of male Lamia these relationships were more mental than physical.
Ironically, while they had and wielded sexuality like a weapon and callously forced their desires on their prey, High Lamia placed little cultural importance on reproduction or sexual themes, seeing them as things necessary but not particularly interesting, meaning their relationships with their kin were often genuine partnerships and courtships based in respect and admiration for the others' abilities.

Average Technological Level

Thanks to reverse-engineering ancient Jade Empire technology, High Lamia attained nearly as high a technology level as High Humans. They discovered Genetics, Robotics, Industry, Lasers, Plasma, Railguns, and dozens of other high articles of technology.

Common Etiquette Rules

To others of the same species, High Lamia were amicable and pleasant...even going so far as to be polite and kind to them often. To other species, they rarely deigned to treat them with anything other than arrogant contempt, since they saw them as little more than slaves and cattle.

Common Dress Code

High Lamia placed no cultural significance on covering themselves, and thanks to their highly durable bodies they rarely saw the need for armor or protection, so they wore simple and moderately covering garments like Chitons, cloth straps, and other bits of clothing that didn't get in the way of their movement or day to day actions. Because of this, they come off as revealing and somewhat sexual to other races but rarely care or consider themselves as being such themselves.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

To High Lamia, it was vital that other species be used for reproduction since they themselves had no males among them...however, they rarely cared or wanted to develop true 'relationships' with other species.

EXTINCT

Genetic Descendants

• Lamia

Scientific Name

Serpentes sapiens primus

Lifespan

350 Years

Average Height

3.6 - 5.6 Meters

Average Weight

1-2 Tons

Average Length

5 - 6 Meters

Average Physique

Tall, Long, and serpentine. Lower half consists of a highly muscular and flexible snake's body, while the upper half consists of a human female. The human half is often well-built and muscular but carries a moderate amount of body fat. High Lamia were almost never excessively skinny or large, and were always well-proportioned thanks to high metabolisms.

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

High Lamia had scales that glittered beautiful shades of color that often spanned the visible color spectrum, which accentuated their already immense beauty. They often enjoyed decorating their bodies with paint and ink as they consumed sapient creatures to remember the thrill of victory over a particularly enjoyable enemy. Otherwise, their skin was often fairer in tone and spanned the range from white to dark tan, and rarely even darker.

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