Snakes

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.

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

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

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.