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Tagged: Political conspiracy

An intelligent serpent person studies relics in an ancient underground archive.
Entities & creatures

Serpent people

Serpent people are intelligent reptilian beings whose influential early portrayal appears in Robert E. Howard’s The Shadow Kingdom. There they survive within ancient Valusia by disguising themselves as humans, occupying religious and political institutions and replacing the people who exercise royal authority. Later Mythos fiction and games develop additional histories that must be identified by source.

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Literature

The Shadow Kingdom

Robert E. Howard’s The Shadow Kingdom is a Kull adventure in which a newly established king discovers that serpent-headed impostors can occupy the faces and offices of his closest associates. First published in Weird Tales in August 1929, it combines palace conspiracy, supernatural deception, violent action and doubts about the stability of personal identity.

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