Innate Spellcasting (Abomination Form Only). The yuan-ti’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). The yuan-ti can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components: Jacobs, James and Richard Pett. "Savage Tidings: The Market is Bad." Dragon #355. Bellevue, WA: Paizo Publishing, 2007.

In tier I, Abominations should be rare. They have a CR of 7, which means it is possible to place them in a position of power for tier-I adventurers to face. However, their position in Yuan-Ti society means they will never be without their guards and servants. If combat breaks out, the Yuan-Ti attempt to raise the alarm, calling their allies from area 9 to join the fight. A yuan-ti abomination fighting to protect a place of importance will do so fanatically. If it’s seriously injured in that scenario, it won’t retreat but rather will fight to the death. If it’s accompanied by yuan-ti malisons and purebloods, and if they’re in a settlement or other location where reinforcements may be available, one or more of the yuan-ti abomination’s allies will break off when the abomination is moderately injured and run to fetch more. Holy guardians are a rare breed specifically bred as temple guards; they are also sent on missions to obtain needed goods for abomination priests. Holy guardians are naturally servile and follow their superiors without question. They uniformly have a serpentine tail in place of legs and a snakelike head. They first appeared in Serpent Kingdoms. Tlaman is the language of the yuan-ti of Hepmonaland. It is largely derived from Olman with phrases from Touv and the languages of snakes, altered to be best pronounced with forked tongues. It uses essentially the same pictographs as Olman, and an Olman speaker can understand approximately two-thirds of Tlaman.Frank Mentzer (January 1985). “Ay pronunseeAYshun gyd”. In Kim Mohan ed. Dragon #93 ( TSR, Inc.), p. 30. Magic Resistance. The Yuan-Ti has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Actions

Yuan-ti also create a highly addictive drug called white resin, made from rare herbs and yuan-ti venom. They introduce it into humanoid populations, using the drug to manipulate them. They also use them to control their slaves, but they're reluctant to do this too much, as extended use of white resin can drive humanoids mad, giving them reptilian features that obligate the yuan-ti to care for them after they become too mentally ill to work, due to their reverence of reptilian beings. There are several reptilian creatures closely associated with the yuan-ti that are not yuan-ti themselves: The best movie villains are the ones you fall in love with. Keith’s book grounds villains in specificity, motivation, and tactics—so much so that players will love to hate ’em. This book will enrich your game immeasurably!” —Matthew Lillard Yuan-ti are snake-human hybrids, created in the earliest days of civilization, whose culture fell from an advanced, enlightened state into fanaticism and cruelty. They live in a caste-bound society in which those who most closely resemble humans make up the lowest stratum, while the most snakelike constitute the highest and most powerful. One distinctive characteristic they all share is the innate ability to cast suggestion: like Kaa in The Jungle Book, they try to win your trust before they mess you up. Another is that they all have magic resistance, so they have no reason to fear spellcasters more than anyone else. Multiple Abominations in a single place almost invariably mean a power struggle, but if they can find a clear leader, their unity will make their community a very powerful and secure part of the social ecosystem.

At level one you only have this ability for ten minutes but from level two and beyond your polymorph time can get higher (10 * proficiency bonus). The yuan-ti were devout demon-worshipers. [7] Their worship often involved bloody sacrifices. [6] Most worshiped Sseth, with other serpentine deities that some have worshiped over the years either being masks worn by Sseth or a false deity of the Scaleless Ones. All yuan-ti must act in accordance with the Sacred Way of Sseth - that is, subtly. Whenever possible, yuan-ti choose manipulation over open confrontation, the whisper over the fang. Followers of the Sacred Way of Sseth know their foes, think ahead, and plan forward. [20] Language [ ] Darkness is a concentration spell that’s highly advantageous to the anathema, which has blindsight, but not so much to its allies, which don’t (except for the three yuan-ti malison variants in Volo’s—see below—whose superior darkvision can penetrate magical darkness). Cast when the anathema is encountered alone or its allies have already been taken out. Yuan-ti call themselves vrael olo (which means "favored ones"). Daily use typically uses the shortened "vrael", and can be modified to "auvrael" (meaning friendly or known yuan-ti) and "duthrael" (unfriendly or unfamiliar yuan-ti). [18] Magic Resistance. The yuan-ti has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.