WIP: Lamia Variants (Patreon)

Wild Lamias are, of all the monster variants, the ones who are the most 'sane', if that is the word that can be used, when they are oversaturated with magic. Rather than turning truly feral, they instead become imperialistic and sadistic, utilizing their light manipulation abilities to enslave victims and treat them like gods. These Lamia are capable of some level of communication with others, but have proven time and again that they refuse to cooperate with others. It is believed by many scholars of the Kingdom that they subconciously use their ability to manipulate the medium through which light travels to also manipulate the invisible flow of atmospheric ley-lines, thus reducing their own magical saturation enough to hold onto some semblance of sanity and rational thought, even though they remain primarily driven by instinct, sociopathy, and megalomania.

Wild Lamia rarely cooperate except when forced or hypnotized into subservience to a greater wild Lamia, where as among the sane Lamia Tribes, both in the Titan's Causeway and in their own shielded villages on the fringes of the kingdom as this new species is introduced by the Frontiersmen's Guild, they display a cool, if rapier intellect and are more and more taking up jobs as researchers and scholars, both in the Ruins they prefer to inhabit, and on civilized town-islands of the Kingdom, using their light manipulation talents to reveal things that were hidden to the naked eye.   Tame Lamia of the Kingdom also taking up the role of mental-physickers in many communities, using their ability to manipulate minds with patterned and colored lights to help cure mental ailments. 

Lamia Essence, stored in Vice Cells, is utilized in both light manipulation Magitechnology and in drugs used for both recreational and medicinal purposes, especially sedatives.