The Two Adders tavern in Hyfalls is built from the hulls of two upturned ships of Blindsnake, which are identified by the black snakes painted on their gunwales.
The Traitors’ Pit is a collection of ladders and snakes. Each prisoner thrown into it is given the antivenom to one snake species. A giant pit viper with rubies for eyes guards the pit’s exit.
The is an albino snake hibernating in a treasure chest in Severard’s tower (13.08)
Lady Naideen sung an old song that called the snakes from their holes and they came to her, whispered in her ears and writhed about her so that only her head could be seen. When she sent them back to their holes they left behind a stone with the shape of a snake’s egg but instead of white it was covered in orange scales that shone like gems. She then set it in the breast of a manikin that she had shaped from the wax of the giant bees and poured wine in its mouth so that it might move (17.11).
These snakes are holy to a god that is in the Prison of the Nine, and Naideen’s song is a hymn.
Gaudy Johnson sells snake oil - that is, the story from a snake rendered in oil form. Anoint your temples before sleep, and the book is read to you in your dreams.
A library of book-snakes lives in Runcitor’s Redoubt (15.22) and they are being slowly hunted to extinction.
Cyclopses of Monatheron (43.12) sometimes wear beetle-eating snakes to supplement their clothes of luminescent beetles.
Flying vipers migrate once a year to the Gardens of the Sea (27.18) where they mate and eat one another, and are eaten by ibises.
The Ziggurat (06.10) imprisons a snake-demon. Vegetation on the Ziggurat turns to pythons when climbed upon.
The Grimes are filthy to repulse their Snake God, the snake-demon, to whom they feed human sacrifices to keep it from breaking free of its prison.
In the Footprints of the Tarrasque (48.24) can be found snakes basking in the sun.
The King in Splendour is sometimes depicted as a snake with a lion’s head and gems in place of eyes.
The Medusa is a mass of snakes that settles on the head of young females.
Lady Natala became ruler of Maratan after he died of snakebite.
The Snake Wall refers to a bottomless pit created to frustrate Blindsnake.
The Bone Field (41.24) includes several snakes that have escaped from their libraries. If read properly, among the various snakes whose scales contain cookbooks and caravan accounts, lie more valuable books. Some of them are low level spell books and one of the snakes a descendant of Sorlak the Gelderer’s essay on the races of the Shrouded Lands whose title is usually translated as “The Flesh Golems that Live as Easily as They Die.” It describes how men, dwarves and all the rest are fleshy automatons driven by their nature and the impulses of their environment and how lizardmen can take advantage of this. Sorlak helpfully recommends that eating the flesh of most races within the sight of other members of that race often results in adverse reactions and should be avoided. It is a classic work and Sorlak’s logic has only been sharpened by the generations that have passed since he inscribed it on a young cobra.
Isane the Beauty has a Slithering Garden with many snake books. They include invaluable sources related to divination and the Undying Cycles of Creation. These lizard man accounts avoided the rot and fire that claimed the originals. Isane interprets the snakes for motley clients including diviners, Sons of Dagon, historians and cultists. Viceroy Baltas overlooks her shadier clients because of her countless charms.
