Yuan-Ti

Yuan-Ti are a race of the Cold Ones, reptile folk who served the dragons when they ruled the earth. Their existence was generally forgotten, except by the most dedicated scholars and dedicated bards who only dimly remembered them through vague references and allusions in ancient books and epic poems. Even those few who knew of their one-time existence thought them to have become extinct in Pettylin.

The rumours of their demise, as it turns out, were greatly exaggerated.

In Pettylin, the Drake people are not humans, as was initially thought for centuries, but a society of Yuan-Ti surviving in the Aerohunt Swamps, a remnant population of Cold Ones who ruled the area before the coming and victory of the humanoids. This was discovered by the adventurers when they were captured and taken into the depths of the Aerohunt Swamps.

The Drake, with the exception of the Drake Purists, are now led by the great green dragon Rearden'Hen and now look to increase the reach and power of the dragons and their Cold Ones servitors. As part of such a plan, they are attempting to transform humanoids into Yuan-Ti through some sort of magical ritual, disease, or potion (it is not clear which), and have been kidnapping travellers and sailors to this effect.