Talk:Lamia/@comment-25269011-20190415153018/@comment-32042142-20190415162241

Because witht the classic lamia, you have more possibilities, the Shirohebi, Bunyip, Apophis, have a personnalities and appearance more fixed.

With the vanilla lamia, you have way more possibilities, any color of scale with any color of (human) skin with any personnality, just have to keep the little basic of the lamia (kind of jealous, etc...)

For example, a good way to imagine diversity, is to imagine a species but in different biome, like lamia in jungle, swamp, cave, etc... Their life place would influence their appearance.

Then, you will need to ask yourself how did they live in this biome? What are their habit? How did they hunt? What kind of culture did they build up? Their lifestyle could completly change from one to an another, including their clothing style, their habitat structure, and way more.

And then you have the Shirohebi... Who will alway be the Shirohebi of the profile with 3 changing details.

Sub species are really good, but with the vanilla Lamia, you can have something really really great, if you take the time to develop individuals, while you can't touch anything with the sub species.