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.
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.
- Class Loyals
- Creatures of Belladona's Keep
- Creatures of the Black Forest
- Creatures of the Creville Asylum
- Creatures of Dun Valley
- Creatures of Green Lake
- Creatures of the Lupine Hunting Grounds
- Creatures of the Mhojave Desert
- Creatures of Shala-Khulia
- Creatures of the Siroccian Mountains
- Creatures of Zaphar Isle
- Divine Symbols
- Creatures of the Fissure of Echoes
- Creatures of the Asterian Peninsula
- Creatures of Lake Dakhota