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>Lamias are generally friendly folks, but they're all strident maltheists. Each one is raised by her mother to fear and hate the gods. A very few lamias practice animism or ancestor worship, but their kin merely tolerate this eccentricity
>A lamia's physiology is like a terrestrial angler fish. Their furthest ancestors were actually giant snakes with vestigial forelegs, and they evolved over time to have a front end resembling the humanoids. There are still a few tribes of lamias with scales covering their entire upper bodies.
>Two weird influences of their monstrous ancestry on their behavior: First, they're far more dextrous with their tails than with their hands. Throw an object at a lamia and shout "think fast," and she's more likely to catch it with the former than the latter. Second, while most lamias wear clothes like humanoid women, they never cover their serpentine halves and are always confused when people ask them about keeping their lower halves bare.
>There are no male lamia; they require a male of another species to trigger parthenogenesis. This provides an interesting contrast to minotaurs, who are universally male, and who reproduce by impregnating women of other humanoid races. However, both lamias and minotaurs refuse to explain what happens if a lamia and a minotaur try to mate, and will become angry if pressed on the issue.
>The male a lamia uses to reproduce need not be humanoid, and need not even be sentient. Bestiality is taboo among lamias, but their superstitions about witches include accusations of bestiality with their familiars.
>Their dependence on outside races for reproduction has led to a culture that stresses integration and cooperation with humanoids. They are natural born extroverts, and every lamia is confident that if she finds a problem she can't solve herself, she can find someone else who can. However, this behavior leads some humanoids to come to think of lamias as lazy whores.
>A lamia's physiology is like a terrestrial angler fish. Their furthest ancestors were actually giant snakes with vestigial forelegs, and they evolved over time to have a front end resembling the humanoids. There are still a few tribes of lamias with scales covering their entire upper bodies.
>Two weird influences of their monstrous ancestry on their behavior: First, they're far more dextrous with their tails than with their hands. Throw an object at a lamia and shout "think fast," and she's more likely to catch it with the former than the latter. Second, while most lamias wear clothes like humanoid women, they never cover their serpentine halves and are always confused when people ask them about keeping their lower halves bare.
>There are no male lamia; they require a male of another species to trigger parthenogenesis. This provides an interesting contrast to minotaurs, who are universally male, and who reproduce by impregnating women of other humanoid races. However, both lamias and minotaurs refuse to explain what happens if a lamia and a minotaur try to mate, and will become angry if pressed on the issue.
>The male a lamia uses to reproduce need not be humanoid, and need not even be sentient. Bestiality is taboo among lamias, but their superstitions about witches include accusations of bestiality with their familiars.
>Their dependence on outside races for reproduction has led to a culture that stresses integration and cooperation with humanoids. They are natural born extroverts, and every lamia is confident that if she finds a problem she can't solve herself, she can find someone else who can. However, this behavior leads some humanoids to come to think of lamias as lazy whores.
