Zail

Zail Hek'ram rates a place at the head of the food chain, even in an area like this. Where else would she be on such a thing? She's a seventy-plus foot long three ton Shinomen naga. At least, that's what she appears to be. Close examination of her nature and capabilities, though, will yield that she is a modest mutation from the base.

First off, she is positively tremendous. Her coils are a bit over four feet thick at their widest part, which is not so impressive considering her size, really. Her size, though, is the impressive factor- particularly given her age. At a mere twenty-three years of age, she should not be anything beyond twenty feet of length. And instead, she is the size of a naga well over eight times her age. For all of that, she has suffered no loss of her snakelike agility and coordination.

Her eyesight is somewhere in between that of a snake and a human, keying to motion, but able to discern color and shape to a certain degree. Perhaps amusingly, this has led her to tote around a pair of pince-nez spectacles that she balances on her nose when she wants to read, or see details. Why and how they work, precisely, she’s not sure, but they *do* help. Her hearing, similarly, is midway between that of a human and a snake, being slightly sharper than that of most humans, as well as able to sense vibrations in the ground caused by weights over two hundred pounds. There is a saturation point, of course, and the ability is totally useless in earthquake conditions.

The part of her that is probably most serpentine is her digestive tract. It begins with her mouth, where her canines are soft-rooted and mobile- able to fold out of the way of her long, hollow fangs. Zail's body constantly generates a supply of a powerful paralytic poison for her, a quick-acting toxin that removes voluntary muscle control. She is able to distend any part of her digestive tract as neccessary to accept the huge meals that she partakes of every week or three, depending on how much there was to the meal, and how much energy she had to expend in catching it. Her lungs actually occupy nearly all of her human part, running from the top of her ribcage to a good five or ten feet into her serpentine tail, which is where her stomach actually begins.

In appearance, the great naga is quite the sight to behold. Her human torso is easily large enough for a humanoid woman of seven or eight feet in height, her 'skin' seeming to have defied the usual bronzing of tans- until one notices the way the scales of her snake part seem to creep partway up either side of her abdomen. In fact, her human 'skin' is actually extremely fine scales, and the cool, smooth texture of her body covers the whole thing aside from her lips. Said lips are quite pouty and full, leaving a thin gap for her long, thin, forked tongue to whisk in and out of as she tastes the area around her. The 'heat pits' on her cheeks, actually soft lumps of flesh just below her cheekbones that let her sense heat in the area around her, give her face a soft, rounded appearance that fits well with her lips, her small, flattish nose, and her large, slit-pupiled yellow eyes.

Zail's hair is a soft brown color, and kept in a close 'shell' about her skull, interrupted only by the elongated points of her ears. Her human part seems very well endowed, partly a result of her lungs forcing a particular shape on her ribcage. Zail's human part is lithely muscled for its size, seeming athletic. She maintains enough modesty to be allowed in cities by way of a two-part leather jherkin, the sleeves reaching only to mid-bicep, and the rather tight body of the thing laced together across gaps in the front and the back, exposing both her cleavage and the strip of skin over her spine. The jherkin itself is actually naga-leather, and stretches as easily as Zail herself does when she feeds.

A pair of naga-leather cross-straps are usually depending from Zail's shoulders, holding her scimitar in place crossed on her back. The swords are less useful than they could be, what with their being standard size, and Zail being so large, but she can still use the things effectively.

The scaling of Zail's serpentine part is very pretty- a vibrant green color for a base, with a broad, hollow diamond of golden scales repeating over and over along her back. Her belly-scales are also a gently gleaming golden color. Somehow, she can shift her scales to dull the color, letting her blend in with darker plants and grasses when needed.

Zail herself is quite an interesting entity. She seems to think in a manner that is half-animal logic, half- human reasoning and emotion. She is unused to areas with rules unlike those of her home in a naga village, and considers the swamp an excellent place to come to relax from the typical constraints of humanoid society. She is very curious about her own nature, as there are no known other cases of it. This nature is in part her rapid and surprising growth, and in part her inherent ability to wield healing magics. Healing magic is certainly something odd for a naga like herself to be able to use, but she manages it instinctively, which makes it all the more rare.

Having spent some time in human lands, Zail has started appreciating that things tend to have actual textures that can be experienced with the mouth. She still does not chew her food, and never bites apart live prey, but she has developed a fondness for eating breads with crunchy crusts, oatmeals, cold cereals, and gummi candies (of all things).

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Relevant Measurements:
Torso and Head Length: 3.5'
Total Body Length: 77'
Total Body Weight: 6512 lbs
Bust: 60" E
Waist: 50"
'Hips': 66"

Zail is one of The_Willful_Wanderer