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LAMIAE, LILIM (By WebWarlock)

Appearance: Lamiae can appear as any female type humanoid they choose. They typically choose to emulate humans and elves of high charisma. Their demonic form is less innocent.

The Lamiae has the same upper body of a beautiful woman, but her features have become twisted some how to show only evil. The lower half of the creature appears to be serpentine. This gives them a look similar to Lamia Nobles or Marilith. Much to all parties displeasure and distaste.

Combat: Lamiae will most often attack her prey when they are sleeping. They have a song that acts a sleep spell cast at the 14th level. They may use this song once per day. Lamiae then embrace their victim to drain their wisdom or blood (1d6 hit points). Typically a lamiae will spend many nights corrupting a single man by draining his wisdom, all the while laying with other men to drain them of their blood. A Lamiae will not let the corpses stack up to betray her nature.

If forced into combat a Lamiae can use a weapon or change to her normal form and use a claw/claw/bite routine. A Lamiea will avoid open combat at all costs except to save her own life. She would rather poison a rival, or better yet, get some one else to do the killing for her.

While a Lamiae can gate in 1-4 Empusa to aid her, she rarely does. But if her life is threatened she can and has a 60% chance.

Habitat/Society: A lamiae will attach her self to a powerful leader and slowly, maybe over years, drain off his wisdom. As she drains his wisdom, the victim comes to rely more and more on the lamiae's advice. She will use her magic to heighten his power and cause him to commit great acts of evil before she sucks him dry herself. A successful lamiae will take a common boy of good alignment, raise him up to an evil dictator or world. emperor, only to conspire with his young rival, often in the bedchamber, to have him killed. Then lamiae then moves on to the next dictator.

Acting like a common whore is good enough for the succubus, or a deranged warrior woman for the Empusa, the Lamiae like to believe that what they do is a subtle art. Thus most is not all are very vain and extremely arrogant.

Ecology: There is some speculation that the Lamia might be some sort of mortal offspring of the demonic Lamiae. However it could also be that they are completely separate monsters that have been confused with each other. Many of history's most evil queens were in fact Lamiae and it is also suspected that many of the so-called succubea that the demon princes keep as consorts may also be Lamiae plotting to take that Prince's power.

There is a strong rivalry between the Lamiae and the Marilith Tanar'ri. Each accuses the other of stealing their true forms. While the Marilith would rather settle such arguments in open combat, Lamiae prefer to maniuplate situations to either make the Marlilith's look bad in the eyes of the Balor, or get them killed out right. A Lamiae is not above letting an army of Baatezu know the location of a troupe of Marilith. The only exception to this rivalry is that Lilith herself has forbade them from crossing the Marilith that are the personal attendants of the Goddess Kali.

Variants: None