Editing Distant Stars (section)

==Yuan-ti==
Between the age of gods and the age of mortals, the ophidian Yuan-ti ruled.  Kin to demons, these serpent-men presided over sun-baked kingdoms of decadence.  Never inclined to labor themselves - indeed, the yuan-ti ruling class are said to be nothing more than giant serpents with human heads, or a legion of snakes coiled together and controlled by one mind - their fabled powers of mental domination are said to be a match for even the ilithid's.  It is thus that they bound brutish apes and fallen men to service, forcing their slaves to suffer the heat and build coiled tributes to demonic glory.

When the Yuan-ti's kingdoms fell, it was not to the spells of a rival, nor the blades of a slave revolt.  Indeed, they simply seemed to collapse in on themselves, their rulers gone, their slavemasters left the field.  They retreated into their grand ziggurats, quickly swallowed by nature and time.  All that remains of them today are fiercely-guarded pockets of sybaritic luxury, deep in the heart of fetid jungles or buried beneath deep desert sands.  They are no threat to the nations of the worlds en masse, but the snakes breed quickly and are happy to cannibalize their own when other food runs scarce, so they can quickly overrun nearby settlements if not held in check.

A character knows the following with a successful Nature check:

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