Swamp of the Snake-King

The Swamp of the Snake-King is a large marsh located in the Tae Min Provence of the Shou Empire. It is fed water by the Chi’i River, which has a delta in the swamp, and by heavy rainfall caused by typhoons during the region’s rainy season. The city of Kai Qing is located on the northwestern end of the swamp, and it is near Kai Qing that the Shou residents have turned the swampland into massive rice paddies.
The swamp is full of various forms of life. Crayfish, swamp eels, marsh crabs, marsh shrimp, and marsh clams live in the more stagnant pools, while frogs, crocodiles, turtles, snails, and gambusia live in the less stagnant pools. Marsh wrens, barred owls, marsh hawks, fish crows, and ducks all make their homes in the swamp, as well as the small mammals that they eat. The marsh is home to a variety of plant life, including rice plants, tea, marsh marigolds, water violets, rattan palms, marsh spike-rushes, swamp meadowcrass, swamp oak, woundwort, bamboo, swamp peppers and water spinach.
The swamp is named after the Snake-King, the anthropomorphic lizard creature who rules the swamp. He rules over the Yuan-ti and other lizard creatures that make their homes in the swamp. According to legend, the Yuan-ti race was spawned when the Snake-King mated with Shou princesses given to him as a peace offering between it and the Shou Empire.