As a crossbreed between reptiles and men, Yuan-ti come in varying degrees of monstrousness. The most human-like, those called Purebloods, are in actuality the weakest, diluting their magical power for a more human appearance. At the other end of the spectrum sit those called Abominations, who often resemble little more than a giant snake with a twisted human torso and two muscled arms.
This one took me quite a few goes to get right, and I'm still not 100% happy with it. I started off with something maybe a little more realistic, but it looked a little too "anthro" in a way I really don't like - when characters have almost completely human bodies with a completely animalian head abruptly placed on top. Human anatomy and animal anatomy (particularly with snakes and lizards!) are so crazily different it feels lazy to just smash them together, so I tried to make it a bit weirder than that.
Also the idea of horns that are actually snakes was cool to me so I put that in there too.
The description of Abominations in the 3.5 MM is that of a large snake with "burly, humanoid arms". SOUND FAMILIAR??!?!?!?
- Joe
I like how the body splits into arms like a snake's forked tongue. I'd consider shrinking the eyes on the horn tips so they look smaller than the center eyes. No scales could be a sign of their corrupt breeding?
ReplyDeleteyeah, I felt a bit lazy about the lack of scales (they're just supposed to be really fine). I think I'm just shy about adding detail that might make the composition a bit too busy! I'm considering going back into it in the future, though.
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