Lamias

Deep within the steaming jungles of Jartoumb can be found stepped ziggurats of vine-covered stones. In these steaming green hells, no human breathes free air. Those two legs who do live within these teeming stone cities do so as both slaves and food to the snake-bodied lamias who rule their besotted minions with an iron fist. Queen among these creatures is the one called Kashissa, who reclines naked upon a throne carved from a single gargantuan emerald. It is said that her great tail - patterned as with a giant constrictor - wraps thrice around her throne and when aroused to anger or hunger, she can rise to thrice the height of a man. Within her steely clutches is grasped the Serpent's Scepter, a magical rod which grants dominion over all which slithers, which ultimately includes the lamias themselves.