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SARILLA
Sarilla is the goddess of
fertility and love. She is the former consort of Senga, the god of the ogres
whose death over 1,000 years ago ushered in the age of magic. She may bear some
responsibility for his death, and likely crafted the blade needed for the task
from her own spine. But she is not an evil deity.
Sarilla’s true motives are not
easily deciphered. To this day she still mourns Senga. Her reasons for killing
him are unclear, they may have been born out of loyalty to him, perhaps a
secret purpose only Senga knew, or they could have been selfish and an effort
to steal his power for herself (perhaps she doesn’t even know why she did it).
Like all gods in Gamandria,
Sarilla can take any form she desires, but her preferred form is that of a
snake-woman with yellow scales and long dark hair. She dwells in a secret realm
beneath the city of Asharun, near a set of columns called the Pillars of Life.
Between these pillars the Asharuni make sacrifices to their goddess.
The Hasri are a snake-like race who
live in south western Gamandria. Created by Sarilla, they look like humans
except for their pitch black eyes and smooth blue-tinted skin. Hasri are
so-colored because their skin is made of layered scales, which they keep
polished. These scales have additional colors arranged in many different
patterns. The hue and shape of these colors are usually similar or the same
within a given clan. Their hair is long and straight, often braided but not
always…
…Hasri do lay eggs but are not
cold blooded, and have one sex. To procreate they simply become fertile and lay
eggs when it is time by going to the temple and making an offering of gold and
flowers to Sarilla (they can perform the ritual on their own or have a priest
do it for them). The siblings from the same clutch of eggs, or clutchlings, are
a key social unit in virtually every Hasri culture. The bond between
clutchlings is strong, they leave their parent late in life usually going with
their siblings and work together to survive. The parent is still important and
often serves as the head of an extended clan, which is comprised of all the
parent’s clutches. These clans are easy to identify by the patterns and colors
of their scales…
…The members of a Hasri’s own
clutch are its closest living friends and allies. These are usually called
“first siblings” or “first clutchchlings”, while members of different clutches
from the same parent are called 2nd, 3rd, 4th
and 5th “clutchlings” the further apart they are in sequence. The
closer the number, the stronger the bond…
… Hasri are quite capable of love
and of forming powerful emotional bonds with a single individual. But this is
not associated with child rearing or reproduction. Hasri often consider their
love more pure than the love known by most other races because it is unfettered
by the needs or desires of the body and exists (for them) on a higher level.
