Naga

Naga are a cold blooded, serpentine people Indigenous to Annuk'ha.

Anatomy

They have serpentine bodies of greatly varying lengths, rarely shorter than 7 feet. They are covered in colorful scales and have a very human like upper body with two arms.

Development and Breeding

Naga can develop both male and female genitalia, making their sex rather fluid, initially changing based on age but potentially changing voluntarily.

Naga are typically male throughout their early lives, their male genetalia developing in response to their mother's pheromones. In adolescence, they will emit male pheromones, ultimately causing most to develop as females. Since non mother females only emit pheromones when ovulating, the sex ratio tends to strongly favor females. Toward their prime, changing sex can become increasingly voluntary; the process becoming slower and more difficult as they age.

Naga's genetalia are internal, making the process of erection, penetration, and ejaculation being a single swift act. They mate after meals. Courtship is generally very slow; the functional male darting its tongue at various parts of the functional females bodies. Upon tasting that the female is ovulating from her pheromones and urine, he will mount her. They give birth to live young as oposed to laying eggs. They form monogamous mating pairs and live in family units. The Naga are a social species and form loosely knit communities.

A Naga is capable of breeding with a Trodon. Their hybrids are known as Quetzal

Life and Diet

They constrict their prey to death before eating, a process the usually involves unhinging their jaws while expanding their mouths, throats and ribs to obscene sizes in order to swallow the creature whole. Their primary food is goat, and so they have established trade relations with the Trodon, but they often target unsuspecting wasps. Because of their tendency to eat various species of Annuk, steal goats to eat, and even eat Trodon on rare occasions, their kind is treated with hostility, especially by the Annuk.

Since they are cold blooded, they have to spend several hours or the day basking in the sun or the shade to regulate body temperature.