Sekmin

Sekmin serpentfolk society is obsessed with regaining the power of the draconic empires. Led by the one or more zyss, each sekmin community works to regain lost power, often through conflicting methods leading them into conflict with other skemin as well as other creatures. Sekmin zyss thrive on selfish desires for hedonistic pleasure and adulation. They feel no love for others, even their offspring. Thriving on decadence, they crave receiving expensive gifts, gorging themselves on massive meals, and pursing arts such as music, poetry, or sculpture. Even more academic hobbies, like the study of magic or warfare, take an artistic bent, like carefully designing colorful illusions or memorizing epic poems about renowned wars. Each zyss believes themselves to have more refined tastes than their peers.

A primary goal of many sekmin is to restore the god Ydersius to their full power, thereby empowering the sekmin people and the priesthood.

Zyss serpentfolk are secretly concerned that their grip on their dull-witted aapoph brethren might slip. A cultural shift has begun to emerge in some colonies where the ruling zyss now assure aapophs they're valuable workers with a purpose to fill, rather than subservient chattel.