Empire of Lemuria

Founding

The Serpent People evolve into the first sentient forms of life on Earth. The ultimate expression of reptilian life, with the innate ability to perceive mystical forces, they master science and magic as well as building the mighty empire of Lemuria. Their civilization waxes and wanes across the millennia. Being devoid of pity or morals, the Serpent People experiment with native life forms to satisfy their curiosity, creating several slave and pet races, including early primates.

These Serpent People found the Empire of Lemuria. The pinnacle of saurian evolution, the Serpent People walked erect and built a civilization when humanity’s earliest ancestors scurried underfoot to avoid the predators of a savage and primitive world. For untold millennia, the civilization of the Serpent People waxed and waned. Empires rose and fell and the saurians developed advanced science and sorcery. They were pitiless creatures, without morals, merely a need to satisfy their curiosity and a desire to control their environment. Among the many sciences they mastered was genetic engineering, used to create various slave races and “pets,” including experiments with early primates. Serpent People society eventually fell into decadence and decay. They were impossibly ancient by the time the first human civilizations arose, and conflict between humans and the Serpent People was inevitable. Humanity might have been doomed to remain slaves and playthings of the saurians, had it not been for outside intervention.