The Rain-Serpents
Where water is the difference between harvest and famine, the serpent that controls it becomes a landlord. The nāga, the horned serpent and Nyami Nyami hold drought and flood in the same coiled body. Their veneration is less worship than diplomacy.
What binds them
- Weather manipulation · 11 of them
- Blessing bestowal · 4 of them
- Planar traversal · 4 of them
- Giant wingspan · 3 of them
- Rain bringing serpent · 3 of them
- Spiritual perception · 1 of them
- Knows past present and future · 1 of them
Drawn from 9 groups of traditions: East Asian 6 · North American Indigenous 3 · None 3 · Norse-Germanic 2 · European 1 · Celtic 1 · South American 1 · South Asian 1 · Middle Eastern 1
19 members
- Araǵanaqlta'a
- Bake-kujira
- Bokkenrijders
- Cat Sìth
- Dragon Turtle
- Draugr
- Horned Serpent
- Hundun
- Kur
- Long Ma
- Mbói Tu'ĩ
- Nāga
- Nine-headed Bird
- Shachihoko
- Shen
- Thunderbird
- Underwater Panther (Mishipeshu/Mishibizhiw)
- Valkyrie
- Ziz
Resemblance is not descent; descent is drawn only as the gold lines on the constellation. All families.