Lamia

The Lamia are a monogendered (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 alchemical compounds such as incense 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.

According to Miia's mother, lamia are very skilled poison users and chemists which she backs when she reveals the tea she brought had been spiked with weak neurotoxin. She later used a special incense that acted as an aphrodisiac, though it proved ineffective.

Physical Appearance and Characteristics

 * 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 similar to pitvipers 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)
 * Lamia's will shed their skin once in awhile just like regular snakes. Interestingly Lamias find being seen skin shedding to be more embarrassing than being seen naked.

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.
 * Lamia are inspired by Greek mythology. Lamia was the queen of Libya who was also a mistress of Zeus. This earned her the ire of Hera, Zeus' wife, who killed Lamia's children and then transformed her into a child-eating demon. Her name is supposedly derived from the Greek word for "gullet", laimos, which is a reference to her habit of eating children. The depiction of Lamia with a snake's tail is from a 1819 poem by English Poet John Keats and has become the common depiction of lamia in other forms of media/\
 * It's revealed in Chapter 27 that Lamia tribes used to kidnap and trick human men into becoming communal husbands for the entire tribe. Miia was entered into the Exchange Program in order to find a husband for her tribe, until she fell for Kurusu and wanted him for herself.
 * It's also revealed that other tribes have sent their daughters for the same reason.