Yuan-ti

Yuan-ti

The yuan-ti are serpent-folk of the Serpent Hills, north of Boareskyr Bridge. Deez Nuts first met them — dead, staked ten feet high at the bridge's southern entrance — in Session 54, and killed three of their own before the day was out.

What the company knows

• They live mostly north of the Trade Way, in and around the Serpent Hills; it is rare for them to come as far south as the Winding Water.
• They are excellent fighters with magic of their own, and are generally held to be evil — though "they don't think they're evil, they just think all other humanoids should die."
• They worship the serpent god, and remake their own bodies toward its image: over years of devotion a yuan-ti progresses into one of many serpent forms — some keep lips, some trade hands for snake-mouths, some aspire to the writhing pile itself. (The table's term of art, ratified by the DM: snake-maxing.)
• The pinnacle of that transformation is the Anathema — a great serpent body with arms and many snake heads (see below).
• Their spies disguise themselves only by hiding their faces — a deep hood is the whole trick. Under it: green skin, thin lips, scale-rash creeping up the neck. Groups of them travel together; the word for such a group is a clutch.
• They speak a mixture of Abyssal and Draconic.
• They are strong swimmers — the Anathema at Boareskyr Bridge came out of the river.

The yuan-ti and Varram

A clutch of yuan-ti spies infiltrated Boareskyr Bridge in the weeks before the company arrived. Varram the White unmasked and killed several of them — earning the toast "Varram, the hero of Boareskyr Bridge" — and the party killed the rest, including the Anathema. But a yuan-ti corpse found on Varram's trail (throat slit, left for dead) carried a drawing of Varram sewn into secret pockets in its own flesh: the yuan-ti are hunting the Wyrmspeaker deliberately, by name and face. Nobody knows why. Attacks on travelers have also been reported on the Trade Way between the bridge and Dragonspear Castle.

The Anathema

The Anathema fought at Boareskyr Bridge (Session 54) revealed, the hard way:

• Resistant to fire and lightning; immune to poison damage (though not the poisoned condition) and to thunder. Cold, force, and piercing landed in full.
• Advantage on saving throws against spells and magical effects.
• A spellcaster — it opened with Entangle — but every spell it knows has a verbal component, so a single Silence shut its casting down entirely.
• Melee-only once silenced; the one at the bridge died without completing a single attack.

Harvest Profile (Anathema)

CR 12 — rarity ceiling Very Rare (harvest DC 20), per Monster Harvesting. Components as drafted from the Session 54 harvest (see the harvest record; assignments pending DM confirmation):

Component	Tool	Rarity	Effect
Anathema Venom Glands (signature)	Poisoner's	Very Rare	Many-fanged venom — virulent, layered neurotoxin
Gemlike Serpent Eyes	Jeweler's (or Thieves' fine work)	Very Rare	Serpent gaze — gem-focus stock; beguilement and suggestion
Mageward Ichor	Alchemist's	Very Rare	Spell-turning essence — warding against magic
Anathema Scale Coat	Smith's	Very Rare	Layered serpent-scale plating — fire- and lightning-warded
Heat-Pit Clusters	Navigator's	Very Rare	Heat-sense — perceive warm bodies through darkness
Antivenin Organ	Herbalism	Rare	Antitoxin — resist & neutralize poison
Serpent hide	Leatherworker's	Rare	Left on the carcass — no one worked Leatherworker's Tools
Serpent Blood / Anathema Fangs	any	Common	Structure only

Appearances

• Session 54 - Serpents at Boareskyr Bridge (2026-08-30) — spies unmasked and killed; the Anathema slain and harvested