By Marc Radle

1009490 1009490 paizo.com #3622749, William Gotcher <[email protected]>, Jun 27, 2015 Lamia BY MARC RADLE 5028452 1009490 TM paizo.com #3622749, William Gotcher <[email protected]>, Jun 27, 2015 5028452 5028452 1009491 1009491 paizo.com #3622749, William Gotcher <[email protected]>, Jun 27, 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS Slithering in Moonlight .......................................... 3 Random Lamia Commoner Culture and Society .................................................. 4 Height and Weight ............................................. 7 Language .................................................................. 5 Favored Class Options ............................................. 8 Relations with Other Races ................................... 5 Alternative Racial Traits .......................................... 9 Alignment and Religion ........................................ 5 Racial Feats ................................................................ 9 A Lamia Commoner Adventurers ............................. 5 New Oracle Mystery: Moon .................................... 10 The Revelry New Spell ................................................................... 11 ................................................................ 6 MI Physical Description .............................................. 6 Prestige Classes ......................................................... 12 A Adventuring Classes ................................................. 6 Moon Touched ........................................................ 12 Lamia Commoner PCs ............................................ 7 Serpent Blade .......................................................... 13 L Random Lamia Commoner Starting Ages ............ 7 Lamia PCs in Midgard ............................................. 15 Lamia Commoner Aging Effects ............................ 7 CES A CREDITS R Design: Marc Radle Art Director & Graphic Design: Marc Radle Editing: Miranda Horner Accountant: Shelly Baur NCED Cover Artist: Guido Kuip Publisher: Wolfgang Baur A Interior Artists: Guido Kuip, Claudio Pozas, MIDGARD TALES Marc Radle, Brian Syme DV 5028453 1009491 A TM Advanced Races, Kobold Press, and Midgard are trademarks of Open Design, LLC. Pathfinder is a registered trademark of Paizo Publishing, LLC, and the Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game and the Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game Compatibility Logo are trademarks of Paizo Publishing, LLC, and are used under the Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game Compatibility License. See http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/compatibility for more information on the compatibility license. Compatibility with the Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game requires the Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game from Paizo Publishing, LLC. See http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG for more information on the Pathfinder® Roleplaying Game. Paizo Publishing, LLC does not guarantee compatibility, and does not endorse the product. Open Game Content: The Open content in this publication includes the new feats, new spells, new gear, and new player character race abilities. All other material is Product Identity, especially place names, character names, locations, story elements, and fiction. No other portion of this work may be reproduced in any form without permission. ©2014 Open Design LLC. All rights reserved. www.koboldpress.com TM 22 paizo.com #3622749, William Gotcher <[email protected]>, Jun 27, 2015 5028453 5028453 1009492 1009492 paizo.com #3622749, William Gotcher <[email protected]>, Jun 27, 2015 SLITHERING IN MOONLIGHT onight, the females will Tindulge in the great ecstasy of the Revelry, basking in the moon’s mystical light. Yet, for the first time, I will not participate, though as a lamia female the Revelry is my birthright. As a youth, I was convinced something was wrong with me—I found none of the same pleasure in lust, debauchery, and wanton cruelty as did my fellow lamia. I questioned why I was cursed to be born a lamia, yet share none of the vile and debauched proclivities that other lamia gleefully pursue for their own self-serving purposes. Two nights ago, a beautiful elf maiden was captured and brought to the large, ruined castle we call our home. My 5028454 heart sank as the matriarchs 1009492 slithered around her, licking their lips with sadistic delight before taking the girl to their private chambers . Later, as I moved through the old castle’s courtyard, gazing at the many broken and defaced sculptures my people had placed there, I found no solace. I could think only of that innocent, terrified girl. I knew what was in store for her during the coming weeks and months, depending on the whims of the matriarchs. Alone, with only the moon to watch over me, I wept for Much like their lamia matriarch queens, most lamia the elf maiden. At that moment I finally realized there commoners, often referred to simply as lamia, are was nothing wrong with me—there was something deeply consumed by bitterness. They have a predatory instinct wrong with my people! and are prone to all manner of plots, perversion, and So, tonight I will leave my fellow lamia and never debauchery. Although few lamia commoners are as return. During the Revelry, I will slither quietly into the obsessed as their matriarchs with the strange, bestial matriarchs’ chambers and free the beautiful elf maiden. curse that afflicts their race, the curse is never far from With the full moon to guide and protect us, I will take her their minds. away from this dark, crumbling castle and return her to Quick to embrace lust and overindulgence, lamia the safety of her own people. Then I will retreat into the commoners crave luxury, gory feasts, violent trysts, and wilderness where I will live out my existence, communing bloody entertainments. with the moon and knowing that, for the first time in my life, I did what I knew was right. —Svesh’Les, Lamia moon oracle 33 paizo.com #3622749, William Gotcher <[email protected]>, Jun 27, 2015 5028454 5028454 1009493 1009493 paizo.com #3622749, William Gotcher <[email protected]>, Jun 27, 2015 CULTURE AND SOCIETY to satiate their own desires, and overindulge in every conceivable way. The lamia psyche seems to embody evil Lamia commoners, as with the lamia matriarchs that and chaos—they can be silken‑tongued and seductive rule them, are sadistic, unpredictable, and self‑indulgent. one moment; crazed and vicious killers the next. They are self‑serving, pleasure‑seeking hedonists, who Lamia love art and surround themselves with all have little regard for the feelings or welfare of other manner of artistic expression—the more elaborate races. In truth, most lamia see other races as existing and grandiose the better. In a cruel twist of fate, their solely for their twisted amusement. Concepts such as race possesses virtually no measure of artistic talent A remorse and compassion are alien to most lamia. themselves. Lamia, therefore, go to great lengths to steal, Consumed by darkness, bitterness, and hatred, lamia connive, or otherwise acquire the art they so covet. MI are prone to covet what they do not have, enslave others Lamia lairs are filled with ancient paintings with lavish A frames, broken sculptures and other statuary, gold and silver plates, and finely wrought goblets. Their tastes tend L toward the lewd and grotesque, so their collections of art somehow appear more garish than beautiful. CES Mating among lamia occurs for pleasure or for A power, never for love. The very idea of love is, in fact, particularly revolting to most lamia. Although there R are both male and female lamia commoners, the ratio of female to male is more than three to one. This, combined with an already highly matriarchal culture, means that couplings between female lamia are as NCED common as those between male and female. A Concepts like monogamy and family are also all but unknown to most lamia. Pairings that produce MIDGARD TALES offspring have no special significance to the parents. DV Young lamia are left to fend for themselves almost 5028455 1009493 A immediately after they are born—lamia feel that if a child is strong, it will survive; if it is weak, it will die. In either case, the lamia parents care little what happens beyond the simple fact that, if it lives, the child will help to perpetuate the lamia race. One important exception is the birth of a new lamia matriarch. A lamia commoner that gives birth to a baby lamia matriarch immediately gains a great deal of power and influence within the tribe, even though the child is immediately taken away to be raised by the other adult lamia matriarchs. After a baby lamia matriarch reaches adulthood, it is likely she will have no idea who her parents are and harbors little interest in finding out— such familial connections are quite literally meaningless. Even if a lamia matriarch somehow learns the identities of one or both parents, she affords them no special privileges and might even show them a disproportionate amount of disdain and cruelty. Lamia show no outward signs of aging. A lamia near the end of her life looks little different than one many decades her junior. Lamia shed the skin of their lower snake half perhaps a dozen times over the course of their life, with the first shedding normally occurring at some point during middle age. These creatures accept death as a natural part of a great cycle. In fact, because death is such a frequent part of a lamia commoner’s life, most attach little meaning to it. To a lamia, death simply means you cease living—no more, no

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