Yuan-ti
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| Alignment | Chaotic Evil |
| Type | Monstrous humanoid |
| Image | Wizards.com image |
The yuan-ti are a fictional species of evil snakemen in the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. The species comprises a number of castes. In some campaign settings, the yuan-ti are descended from evil human cultists who mixed their bloodlines with those of serpents. They have formidable psychic abilities.
The yuan-ti were introduced to the D&D game in the first edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.
The original yuan-ti castes were the abominations, the halfbreeds, and the purebloods, which first appeared in the module Dwellers of the Forbidden City (1981), and were all later featured in the first edition Monster Manual II (1983).
Yuan-ti history and society were detailed in Dragon #151 (November 1989), in the "Ecology of the Yuan-Ti", which also introduced the histachii.
The yuan-ti first appear in Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989), and is reprinted in the Monstrous Manual (1993), along with the abomination yuan-ti, the halfblood yuan-ti, and the pureblood yuan-ti.
The histachii yuan-ti appeared for the Kara-Tur campaign setting in the Monstrous Compendium Kara-Tur Appendix (1990), and is then reprinted in the Monstrous Manual (1993).
A psionic variation of the yuan-ti appeared in The Complete Psionics Handbook (1991).
The yuan-ti appears in the Monster Manual for this edition (2000), including the abomination yuan-ti, the halfblood yuan-ti, and the pureblood yuan-ti.
The broodguard yuan-ti, the human broodguard yuan-ti, the tainted one yuan-ti, and the human tainted one yuan-ti for the Forgotten Realms setting appeared in Monsters of Faerun. The pureblood yuan-ti and the tainted one yuan-ti were presented as player character races in Races of Faerûn (2003).
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