Lamia

The Lamia are a single-gender (female) reptilian liminal race with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a snake. Predatory carnivores, Lamia form tribal villages on the outskirts of desert oasis, their serpentine tails are powerful enough to rend steel.

Culture
Believed to be deadly towards humans, Lamia are reputed to lure men back to their lairs and kill them after they've had their way with them. While this is partially true, due to being a female-only race, Lamias would lure men to their villages and hold them as sex slaves. If the male is resistant, Lamia will use alchemy to draw out their lust and force themselves upon them. Usually the entire village would get involved, resulting in mass orgies that sometimes resulted in the male dying from sexual exhaustion. Since the Cultural Exchange Between Species Bill, government agencies have put a stop to the Lamia practice of kidnapping and keeping sex slaves against their will. In an attempt to compensate for this, Lamia villages have taken to sending "representatives" via the exchange program for the purpose of acquiring a communal husband for the village.

Physical Appearance

 * Lamia are Poikilotherms; organisms that do not have a stable internal temperature and must rely on external sources to maintain a healthy body temperature. As such they are extremely vulnerable to cold temperatures and will either fall into hibernation and/or die if left exposed to low temperatures for too long.
 * The tip of a lamia's tail is an extremely sensitive erogenous zone.
 * Lamias posses a sensory organ that allows them to see heat signatures. With it, they can follow the heat signature of their prey even in the dark.
 * As carnivores, lamia have twenty times less the number of taste buds as omnivores (e.g. humans), while omnivores generally have half as many taste buds as herbivores (e.g. Centaurs)

Members

 * Miia
 * Miia's Mother

Trivia

 * The lamia race consists of only females, in order to breed they must mate with human men.
 * Lamia mating can take around 6-10 hours on average. Due to this, a Lamia's partner seldom has the stamina to keep up with them and may die from exhaustion. If a man lingers or hesitates once sexual intercourse is finished, he is considered engaged to that lamia.
 * The first of The Eight Brothers is dating a Lamia.