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Maachah Rajni
Naga / Lamia
Female
2,609
19'4''
270 kg
Bisexual
Rouge
Naga, Snake,
Common, Ahine
Maachah Rajni
Like all naga, Maachah learned how to hunt prey and flee from danger in a very animalistic way, before being abandoned and left to her own devices while she slept at age thirteen.
Once alone, she hunted small creatures for a while, hiding away from the humanoids passing through the forest to get from city to city. She was warned that they would try and hunt her.
Maachah was an incredibly curious lamia, always exploring whenever she didn't need to eat or find somewhere to hide for slumber. Eventually, she came across a moderately sized tribe, deep in the wilderness, and was intrigued by its scholars and practitioners of magic, thievery, psionics, and melee combative arts.
She longed for much more than to simply wander the world aimlessly with little more than an animal's knowledge of it. Slow,ly nervously, she came before the tribe in their small training grounds and requested tuition in return for anything that she could possibly offer them. They asked that she would protect their livestock for now.
Sure enough, any foxes or wolves prowling around their hens soon became a meal themselves. As payment, after gaining an understanding of Maachah's animalistic hunting methods, they decided that she would be best suited to training as a rouge.
She grew older, larger, stronger, and incredibly well-versed in rouge practice. She no-longer protected the livestock, but instead protected the tribe's people alongside its guards, killing bandits, raiders and monsters that would mean them harm.
When she had learned all she could, she was eager to learn more and bid the tribe farewell, going back to wandering. She encountered many things in this idle time, including people who now wanted to kill her for a trophy. This only became more common the older and larger she became.
Without having any of knowledge of politics, she rather just stumbled upon the front lines of a war between the Ichtabb and defending Achahtai. She didn't even care who was fighting who or why, but she could see that the Ichtabb were different from the people that she typically saw, figuring that there would be less consequences for killing them.
She finally got the chance to exercise everything that she had learned to the peak of its capabilities. When the war ended with Achahtai having successfully defended itself, the former headmaster of Iechi approached Maachah, offering her a place at Iechi school. She would be tutored by the very best there, and her payment for this would also be her reward, getting to embark on any of the mission requests received first by Iechi before anywhere else.
Also, she would be given a proper place in the next war effort, getting to go to intriguing new places, and learn and exercise her talents. Nothing could be better. Upon learning everything that even Iechi could hope to teach her, she simply took up experimental goals of her own, becoming the size of a small dragon by now.
Could she just single-handedly TAKE a rich and infamous vampiric crime-lord's castle, heavily guarded by his subservients? It turned out that she could, becoming something of a beast of legend which some paid thanks to and others set out to kill for more-or-less the same reason as she killed the vampire. To see if they could.
She did all manner of things like this until she got bored with them, in-between any war efforts that Achahtai called her to. And so it went on for hundreds of years, until eventually, Iechi called upon her to become a teacher there.
All was dull, boring and far too easy at this point. Maachah figured that perhaps some permanence in a job and living space might help her evaluate her seemingly never ending life. She didn't want to die, but she needed new direction for certain, and had plenty of knowledge to impart to any aspiring rouge at Iechi.
Maachah limits her length to around 19'4'' whilst there, a little trick that an alteration mage gave her while she was a still a student, but don't let that fool you. Such a powerful and long-lived lamia as she can take giant-like proportions when the situation requires it.
Being a masterful rouge, Maachah's weapon of choice is her speed. Blink and you'll miss her charging and coiling around you, arms holding you in place before you're helplessly devoured. Of course, she is more than a fighter and deadly silent infiltrator. True to the lamia depicted in legend, she is an expert deceiver and seductress should a situation call for more subtle methods.
There are rumours that she ate some of her students who mysteriously disappeared under the guise of being sent on a very dangerous mission. Many people are aware of the rumours and wouldn't exactly put it past her, but no-one can argue with her results. Generation after generation of finely trained rouges under her guidance.
Naga / Lamia
Lamia are typically a highly inquisitive, dangerous and isolated species. As soon as they grow old enough to capture prey proficiently on their own and evade danger, they leave their families to explore.
Some naga develop close relationships with the 'more civilized' races, sometimes as a briefly visiting neighbour from nature, and sometimes integrating into society completely, living in houses and wearing humanoid clothes. This is quite rare though.
Far more commonly, and as far as most people know, lamia will prey upon any who get lost in the wilderness, or on children who venture too far to play their games. Stronger lamia will even snatch away the hunter gatherers and small groups of people who dare venture into the forests at all.
Naga seem to live indefinitely, until either being killed or dying from disease. Until the day that they die, a lamia will never stop growing, thus making them progressively more hungry and harder to kill, which can cause them to become hunted more mercilessly if they are known man-eaters.
As for the few lamia who live in cities and don't die from disease, they simply grow too large in all dimensions. They require so much to eat that shops struggle to stock for it, meaning that the lamia either has to leave and hunt wild animals, or begin eating people or poached livestock in secret.
City life gets gradually less and less manageable, meanwhile the city-folk get more and more annoyed with the lamia's size and how it clears out the butchers and can drain a whole pub of its cider... If naga don't leave on their own, they eventually get banished, turn hostile, hunt humanoids, and in turn become hunted like other naga.