Great Serpents

The Great Serpents are an extinct Speaking Race who called Elemnakos home. According to legend, they were wiped out by an alliance of gods and champions of the other Speaking Races, making them out to be a great threat.

As is recorded in Bressel of Ischia's bestiary, the gods decried the Serpents as beings of Chaos rather than magic.

Physiology
The Serpents were described as lizardlike beings, with grey skin "as tough and hard as armor."

Culture
Great Serpents were mostly solitary creatures, staying apart from each other with the exception of mates raising young. This may be connected to the gods' claim that as creatures of Chaos, they possessed an unconquerable desire to dominate, rule, and ruin.

They built singular towers and circular castles whose ruins dot highlands such as Rasenna's Backbone and the Giona Mountains, betraying an obsession with spiral shapes and radial symmetry.