Serpent men are a fictional race created by Robert E. Howard for his King Kull tales. They first appeared in "The Shadow Kingdom," published in Weird Tales in August 1929. Serpent men are humanoids with scaled skin and snake-like heads. Some possess magical abilities, the most common of which is the use of illusion to disguise themselves as a human.In Robert E. Howard's King Kull stories, the serpent people worship a god known as the Great Serpent. Later writers would identify the Great Serpent with the Great Old One Yig and with the Stygian serpent god Set from Howard's Conan stories.They built subterranean cities, of which only ruins remain in the modern age. Instinct: Corrupts

• Enslaves
• Often appears human
• Blackmail