Difference between revisions of "Snakes"

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This page is about the species. For other uses, please see Serpents (disambiguation).

Snakes are a common sight in Achaea found in many parts of the world. They are found in a variety of locations and are also part of a number of different quests.

Snakes around Achaea

The following is a list of locations of snakes and their species within Sapience.

Ageiro: Nickel snakes
Black Forest: Wood vipers
Belladona's Keep: Marsh vipers
Creville Asylum: Massive rat snakes
Dakhota Hills: Stitched adders
Barony of Dun Valley: Water snakes, poisonous snakes
Eastern Shore: Small sand boas
Fissure of Echoes: Glacial windvipers
Green Lake: Pythons
Grukai Swamp: Multicoloured boa constrictors
Istar Jungle: Flying vipers, boalisks
Lake Dakhota: Stitched adders
Lupine Hunting Grounds: Horned snakes, pythons, vipers, ebony snakes, diamond-back rattlesnakes, green ladder snakes
Mhojave Desert: Rattlesnakes, sidewinders (See also: Concoctions)
Qurnok Village: Moccasins, anacondas
Siroccian Mountains: Flying treesnakes
Shala-Khulia: Rainbow boas, cat-eyed snakes, and vine snakes
Zanzibaar: Red-banded cobras
Zaphar Isle: Rattlesnakes and tree snakes

Snakes In Other Locales

Snakes inhabit other areas as well, such as on the distant continent of Meropis.

Asterian Peninsula: Horned vipers
River Mnemosyne: Slithering black mambas
Northern Atrousian Jungle: Reticulated pythons
Grukai Swamp: Enormous anacondas
Pri'alysh Moor: Striped adders

Snake Hybrids

There are a few denizen populations which are at least partly snake in appearance. From the half-human Ophidians of the Great Rock to the Dyissans of Delmarin and the Qui'sas of Thera, they represent a mutated off-shoot of humanity with serpentine characteristics possibly going back to Loki and Ekanel.

Loyals

Most known as loyals of those of the Serpent class as part of the skill of subterfuge.

Each House formerly bred different species of snake.

The Naga: death adders
Cult of the Serpent Lords: green eye lash vipers
The Dawnstriders: mottled desert asps
Shadowsnakes: black cobras
Rogues: brown-grey rattlesnakes

With the advent of the House Renaissance, now cities can breed unique snakes. All of them afflict with Loki.

Eleusis: arboreal wood snakes
CIJ: puffadders
Mhaldor: death adders
Ashtan: kraits
Targossas: moccasins

Religion

Snake symbolism is not uncommon in the philosophies of some of the darker Divine Orders. In this context, the serpent symbol usually represents secrecy, wisdom, cunning, or guile.

For instance, the Divine symbol of Keresis, Goddess of Vengeance was a sword pointing down with a large python twisting around the blade and a crow perched upon the pommel, a symbol also found on Her shrines. The Goddess also owned a pet python named Pytho.

Similarly, the Divine symbol of Ourania, Goddess of the Moon is that of a waxing crescent moon surrounded by seven stars, above a tree of crystal with a white python wrapped about its trunk on a field of black.

Finally, the symbols of Indrani, Lady of Sin included a hooded serpent.

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 '''Snakes''' are a common sight in Achaea found in many parts of the world. They are found in a variety of locations and are also part of a number of different [[quests]].
-==Snakes around Sapience==
+==Snakes around Achaea==
 The following is a list of locations of snakes and their species within Sapience.
+;[[Ageiro]] : Nickel snakes
 ;[[Black Forest]] : Wood vipers
 ;[[Belladona's Keep]] : Marsh vipers
 ;[[Creville Asylum]] : Massive rat snakes
+;[[Dakhota Hills]] : Stitched adders
 ;[[Dun Valley|Barony of Dun Valley]] : Water snakes, poisonous snakes
 ;[[Eastern Shore]] : Small sand boas
+;[[Fissure of Echoes]] : Glacial windvipers
 ;[[Green Lake]] : Pythons
-;[[Istar Jungle]]: Flying vipers
+;[[Grukai Swamp]]: Multicoloured boa constrictors
-;[[Lupine Hunting Grounds]] : Horned snakes, pythons, vipers, ebony snakes
+;[[Istar Jungle]]: Flying vipers, boalisks
+;[[Lake Dakhota]]: Stitched adders
+;[[Lupine Hunting Grounds]] : Horned snakes, pythons, vipers, ebony snakes, diamond-back rattlesnakes, green ladder snakes
 ;[[Mhojave Desert]] : Rattlesnakes, sidewinders (See also: [[Concoctions]])
 ;[[Qurnok Village]] : Moccasins, anacondas
 ;[[Siroccian Mountains]] : Flying treesnakes
 ;[[Shala-Khulia]] : Rainbow boas, cat-eyed snakes, and vine snakes
+;[[Zanzibaar]] : Red-banded cobras
 ;[[Zaphar Isle]] : Rattlesnakes and tree snakes
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 ;Northern [[Atrousian Jungle]]: Reticulated pythons
 ;[[Grukai Swamp]]: Enormous anacondas
+;[[Pri'alysh Moor]]: Striped adders
 ==Snake Hybrids==
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 Most known as loyals of those of the [[Serpent]] [[class]] as part of the [[:Category:Skills|skill]] of [[subterfuge]].
-Each [[:Category:Houses|House]] has a different species of snake. All of them afflict with [[Loki (venom)|Loki]].
+Each [[:Category:Houses|House]] formerly bred different species of snake.
 ;[[Naga|The Naga]] : death adders
 ;[[Cult of the Serpent Lords]] : green eye lash vipers
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 ;[[Shadowsnakes]] : black cobras
 ;[[Rogue]]s : brown-grey rattlesnakes
+With the advent of the [[House Renaissance]], now cities can breed unique snakes. All of them afflict with [[Loki (venom)|Loki]].
+;[[Eleusis]] : arboreal wood snakes
+;[[CIJ]] : puffadders
+;[[Mhaldor]] : death adders
+;[[Ashtan]] : kraits
+;[[Targossas]]: moccasins
 ==Religion==
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 [[Category:Creatures of Zaphar Isle]]
 [[Category:Divine Symbols]]
+[[Category:Creatures of the Fissure of Echoes]]
+[[Category: Creatures of the Asterian Peninsula]]
+[[Category:Creatures of Lake Dakhota]]