Gorgon

Name:  Gorgon
Notes:  A humanoid reptilian species, Gorgons are considered repulsive by most other species.  As such, their reputation as something to avoid looking spread far and wide, even to the point on ancient Terra of turning into the beginnings of the mythos of their gaze turning victims to stone if eyes were met.
Venomous, Gorgon venom glands produce a potent paralytic that also plays a part in the origins of the stories about turning victims to stone.
Instead of hair, Gorgons have motive tendrils.  Some of these have secondary mouths that can be used to bite with their own venomous fangs.  However, due to their cranial location, there is no connection to the digestive system, so these 'hair snakes' are pure muscle.
The longer natural average Gorgon lifespan allowing single individuals to easily outlive humans led to myths growing about their 'immortality'.  This falsehood was eagerly exploited by Gorgons on ancient Terra before Fenghuang, Mulians, and others drove them from the planet.
Due to the higher aggressive nature of the females of this vicious species as well as being larger with more muscle mass, Gorgons tend to be a matriarchal society as males, though aggressive and dangerous in their own rights, are literally the 'weaker sex'.  As such, the Gorgon leaders have historically been female.  The title worn by each successive ruler of the Gorgons is Stheno and the title of Euryale is used by the next-in-line.  This dual leader system is a curious one as the two Gorgons who bear those titles may regularly clash with each other with the Euryale trying to remove the Stheno and take the title as her own, the Stheno and Euryale view each other as blood-sisters and easily drop their feuding when either one is threatened, be it by another Gorgon or an outsider.
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