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Earlier Serpent Men: Direct quotes from Merritt

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	==Earlier Serpent Men==		==Earlier Serpent Men==
	Robert E. Howard was not the first to write about ~~prehistoric serpent people~~. ~~Another pulp~~ writer, [[Abraham Merritt]], created a similar ~~pre~~-~~human serpentine race~~ surviving from the Mesozoic era in his story "The Face in the Abyss" which first appeared in a [[1923]] issue of [[Argosy magazine]]. A sequel, "The Snake Mother," also appeared in Argosy in [[1930]] and both were collected in a book-length version in 1931. In this story line, the last surviving ~~Serpent~~-~~Woman~~ is an ally of the human protagonists.		Robert E. Howard was not the first to write about a pre-human historic serpentine race. Pulp writer [[Abraham Merritt]] created similar "serpent-people" surviving from the Mesozoic era in his story "The Face in the Abyss", which first appeared in a [[1923]] issue of [[Argosy magazine]]. A sequel, "The Snake Mother," also appeared in Argosy in [[1930]], and both were collected in a book-length version in 1931. In this story line, the last surviving "serpent-woman" is an ally of the human protagonists.

	==Cthulhu Mythos==		==Cthulhu Mythos==

Ywhateley: Wiki Links.

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Wiki Links.

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	* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)		* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)
	* Robert E. Howard - "[[The Hyborian Age]]"		* Robert E. Howard - "[[The Hyborian Age]]"
			* sourcebook: ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]''

	===Role-playing games===		===Role-playing games===

Ywhateley: Categorization.

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Categorization.

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	[[Category:Races]]		[[Category:Races]]
			[[Category:HollowEarth]]

Ywhateley: Details added.

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Details added.

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	==Appearance and abilities==		==Appearance and abilities==
			<blockquote>
			"'I keep your secret; they do not need my word to know you. The farther they have retreated from the world of men, the greater have grown their powers in other uncanny ways,' [the witch Atla said].... The vast age of [Bran's] race was borne upon him; where now he walked an outlaw and an alien, dark-eyed kings in whose mold he was cast had reigned in old times. The Celtic and Roman invaders were as strangers to this ancient isle beside his people. Yet his race likewise had been invaders, and there was an older race than his—a race whose beginnings lay lost and hidden back beyond the dark oblivion of antiquity.... [Atla cried] 'Look!—They come!' He wheeled, his hand instinctively dropping to his sword. Outside the ring the great stallion screamed savagely and reared against his tether. The night wind moaned through the waving grass and an abhorrent soft hissing mingled with it. Between the menhirs flowed a dark tide of shadows, unstable and chaotic. The ring filled with glittering eyes which hovered beyond the dim illusive circle of illumination cast by the phosphorescent altar. Somewhere in the darkness a human voice tittered and gibbered idiotically. Bran stiffened, the shadows of a horror clawing at his soul.... One segment of the mass detached itself for an instant and Bran cried out in fierce revulsion, though he caught only a fleeting glimpse of the thing, had only a brief impression of a broad, strangely flattened head, pendulous writhing lips that bared curved pointed fangs, and a hideously misshapen, dwarfish body that seemed—mottled—all set off by those unwinking reptilian eyes. Gods!—the myths had prepared him for horror in human aspect, horror induced by bestial visage and stunted deformity—but this was the horror of nightmare and the night."<br>
			—Robert E. Howard, "Worms of the Earth"
			</blockquote>

	Serpent Men are humanoids with scaled skin and snake-like heads. They possess magical abilities, the most common of which is the use of illusion to disguise themselves as a human. In some stories, the ghost of someone killed by a Serpent Man becomes the Serpent Man's slave. Due to the shape of their mouths, Serpent Men cannot utter the phrase "Ka nama kaa lajerama." Howard's character Kull uses the phrase as a [[shibboleth]] in the story ''The Shadow Kingdom''.		Serpent Men are humanoids with scaled skin and snake-like heads. They possess magical abilities, the most common of which is the use of illusion to disguise themselves as a human. In some stories, the ghost of someone killed by a Serpent Man becomes the Serpent Man's slave. Due to the shape of their mouths, Serpent Men cannot utter the phrase "Ka nama kaa lajerama." Howard's character Kull uses the phrase as a [[shibboleth]] in the story ''The Shadow Kingdom''.

Travern: /* Role-playing games */

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Role-playing games

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	===Role-playing games===		===Role-playing games===
	* [[Keith Herber]] - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''		* [[Keith Herber]] - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
	* ~~List of Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Serpent Men~~ [[:Category:CoC:Serpent_Men_scenarios\|Serpent Men scenarios]]		* [[:Category:CoC:Serpent_Men_scenarios\|List of Call of Cthulhu Serpent Men scenarios]]

	==External links==		==External links==

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Role-playing games

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	===Role-playing games===		===Role-playing games===
	* Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''		* [[Keith Herber]] - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
	* List of Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Serpent Men [[:Category:CoC:Serpent_Men_scenarios\|Serpent Men scenarios]]		* List of Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Serpent Men [[:Category:CoC:Serpent_Men_scenarios\|Serpent Men scenarios]]

Travern: /* Appearances */ duplicate reference

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Appearances: duplicate reference

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	* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)		* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)
	* Robert E. Howard - "[[The Hyborian Age]]"		* Robert E. Howard - "[[The Hyborian Age]]"
	* "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" - [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]]

	===Role-playing games===		===Role-playing games===

Travern: /* Role-playing games */ Keeper's Compendium is out of print but republished as The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1

2020-06-15T14:56:48Z

Role-playing games: Keeper's Compendium is out of print but republished as The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1

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	===Role-playing games===		===Role-playing games===
	* Keith Herber - ''[[Keeper's ~~Compendium~~]]''		* Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
	* List of Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Serpent Men [[:Category:CoC:Serpent_Men_scenarios\|Serpent Men scenarios]]		* List of Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Serpent Men [[:Category:CoC:Serpent_Men_scenarios\|Serpent Men scenarios]]

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Role-playing games

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	===Role-playing games===		===Role-playing games===
	* Keith Herber - ''[[Keeper's Compendium]]''		* Keith Herber - ''[[Keeper's Compendium]]''
	* ~~See also~~ [[:Category:CoC:Serpent_Men_scenarios\|Serpent Men scenarios]]		* List of Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Serpent Men [[:Category:CoC:Serpent_Men_scenarios\|Serpent Men scenarios]]

	==External links==		==External links==

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External links: fixing linking format

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	==External links==		==External links==
	*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013912/http://www.chaosium.com/chaosium/starry-wisdom/sw3-racesp.shtml\|Chaosium: "The Children of Yig", a study of the serpent people]		*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013912/http://www.chaosium.com/chaosium/starry-wisdom/sw3-racesp.shtml Chaosium: "The Children of Yig", a study of the serpent people]
	* "TAL" - "[http://www.shavertron.com/reptiles.html\|The MIB, Reptilians, and You]"		* "TAL" - "[http://www.shavertron.com/reptiles.html The MIB, Reptilians, and You]"

	[[Category:Races]]		[[Category:Races]]