Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-24701421-20140918121412

 Basilisk 

Species: Lamia Subspecies

Habitat: Wastelands, Caves

Disposition: Spiteful, Indolent

Diet: Meat

Once known as the “King of Snakes”, basilisks were once highly noxious serpents that possessed the power to kill by mere eye contact alone. However, in the era of the current Demon Lord, their once-fatal gaze is usually used to merely knock out their victims while their once-deadly venom is now a powerful aphrodisiac. The very breath and skin of a basilisk is laced with the potent venom and mere skin contact alone is enough for the venom to affect her victims. In fact, basilisks produce so much venom that they tend to leave venomous trails in their wake. If a human female is affected by the venom, she will become a subordinate lamia while a human male will be consumed by lust and seek out the basilisk, assuming that his search is not interrupted by a mamono along the way. Since their very skin is venomous, it is believed that a basilisk’s embrace will result in a man becoming enslaved to her thus ensuring that he will never be interested in another woman or mamono.

Despite their terrifying abilities, including their ability to command subordinate lamiae, basilisks have little interest in leaving their homes unless it is to feed or to find a husband. During the era of the past Demon Lords, basilisks were very spiteful creatures with destructive urges that will destroy even the very vegetation around them when there are no animals for them to kill. With the influence of the current Demon Lord, they had lost their destructive urges and are thus rendered mostly indolent, especially when they have subordinate lamiae to tend to their basic needs, although they generally still possess their spiteful personalities. Once a basilisk does gain a husband, she may never venture out of her home ever again. Also, basilisks are not as powerful as the god-like apophis or echidna and are thus submissive to them, albeit begrudgingly.

Strangely enough, basilisks are terrified of the cowardly cockatrices that are uniquely immune to their gaze and venom. The mere scent or sound produced by a cockatrice will cause a basilisk to panic and flee back to their homes, not daring to venture out again for a while unless driven by desperation. Even ordinary roosters will make them fearfully uneasy.  