Sagine

Sagine, the Serpent Queen, was one of the first Yuan-Ti. Serving a goddess she thought was benevolent, she was tricked into changing her form into that of a serpent. Determined to have her revenge, she began a cult through which she slowly amassed power, the end-goal of which is to slay Dendar and replace her entirely.

## Basic Information

### Alignment

Lawful Evil (presented) Lawful Neutral (true)

## Description

Sagine, from the top-up, resembles a Pictish human female, with wild and unkempt red hair. From the lower-half down, she has a serpentine appearance, with a matching color of red for her scales.

She wears a cloth and gem around her waist, the gem is known as the *Scale of Dendar*, and she wears a modesty wrap around her chest.

Sagine is utterly massive, from the crown of her head to the ground, she stands 130 feet tall, and her tail is nearly 200 feet in length. Sagine's massive size is partially due to the so-called 'blessing' of Dendar, but also a result of the faith of her loyal cult.

## Personality

Sagine's personality is venomous, with her not abstaining from any of the horrific atrocities that her kin partake in. Ritualistic sacrifice, cannibalism, and torture are no stranger to Sagine, but Sagine holds a quiet secret that burns deep inside her.

She, unlike any other of the transformed Yuan-Ti, has retained her emotions. She, owing to her greater nature, is capable of feeling emotions that are now all but foreign to the monstrous Yuan-Ti. And yet, deeper than this, she holds a further secret.

Her evil is a facade. While it is true that she is willing to do almost anything to get her revenge on Dendar, she is horrified by the atrocities she is forced to commit. She believes that she is in an inescapable position where if she shows even the slightest hint of weakness, her followers will turn on her. Her greatest fear is that her human nature will be discovered and used against her.

If adventurers are willing to aid her in her quest to defeat Dendar, she will willingly turn against her followers.

Even so, she is self-destructive and reckless, and she is willing to confide into a trusted companion that once she defeats Dendar she intends on ending her life. This self-destructive behavior manifests outwardly in massive acts of hedonism and gluttony, with her using captured slaves to whet her desires.

## Abilities

Like all Yuan-Ti, Sagine is capable of changing her form to take that of a similarly sized snake.

She is an expert spellcaster and a master of blade and bow.

She also is capable of swallowing large creatures whole, a skill she learned to ease her guilty conscience from her wicked deeds.

## Possessions

In terms of material possessions, Sagine has few, her only true material possession is a magical artefact called *The Scale of Dendar*, which she claims can one day be used to defeat the dark Goddess.

## Relationships

Sagine has no formal relationship. She confides to trusted companions that once upon a time, in days of yore, she had a male companion named Hoapl, with whom she had a romantic relationship. This was while she was human, however, before the *Blessing of the Scale* had occurred.

In modern relationships, she is expected to continue laying hatches of eggs to expand the Yuan-Ti empire, to this effect, whenever slaves are captured, they are delivered to her, and she uses them in whatever manner she desires.

This also is used in a decennial celebration, where a Yuan-Ti male, either a malison or pureblood, willingly sacrifices himself to produce more eggs for the empire.

Both of these ceremonies are called *The Celebration of Rebirth*.

## History

Once upon a time, Sagine was a human, born of a marooned Pictish sailor and a Huetsicoatlian slave. Doomed to a live of eternal slavery, she was stolen away by her father during a slave riot, who escaped to modern day Hetyana. There, in a long forgotten temple, the motley group of slaves found an ancient tome, detailing dark and evil rituals. Soon, enchanted by its power, the slaves began to follow the books commands. Sagine, meanwhile, was raised by her father, learning Pictish and Huetsitcoalian. On her 18th birthday, the great Shaman of the escaped slaves demanded a blood sacrifice, and her father objected. When his objection was learned of, it was decided that Sagine would be the sacrifice.

Kidnapped in the middle of the night, Sagine was on the precipice of death as the sacrificial knife nearly struck her. When her father arrived, and slew the Shaman and his guards. Her father made to flee, but she and him were caught and her father was killed before her. When the slaves killed her father, they dismembered him and tore him to pieces, consuming his flesh. They forced her to consume her own father. Once the orgy of blood and flesh was finished, by the next dawn the remainder had transformed into foul half-serpentine creatures.

Sagine, at this time, was massive for a Yuan-Ti, but still was naught but a fraction of her current size. Realizing that the slaves who surrounded her had lost any sense of sanity or empathy, she played along with their madness.

After nearly a century of researching the cursed book, she learned that Dendar was the deity responsible for her transformation and her father's death. She swore revenge, and that night, as she fell asleep, she was visited by a nightmare. In her vision she saw Dendar, the nightmare-bringer. When she awoke the next morning she discovered on her waist a belt with the *Scale of Dendar*.

For the next several thousand years, she amassed a loyal following of Yuan-Ti, eventually birthing over 70% of the modern population of Hetyana. Though they are her children, she considers them expendable beasts, tools to further her plans.