Most River Naga revere either Sleissshar, the Naga goddess of the hunt as well as strength at arms or Coilesssh their goddess of community and the hearth. Of these two, Coilesssh is the more prominent. The Naga pantheon also includes some other minor deities, but they are of little influence. For a River Naga to revere deities of other races is almost unheard of.
Most River Naga gravitate toward a neutral alignment, with an ever so light affinity towards lawfulness. Most of the time they are rather self centered, but if push comes to pull they usually put the good of their hive above their own needs. Most River Naga live in small hives that are usually ruled by the most senior female of the hive. These hives take the form of small defensible structures, usually built on artificial islands in lakes or streams, less often on riverbanks and lakeshores. These communities hardly ever number more than a hundred adults, and maybe twice as many adolescents.
To all other humanoids Naga seem somewhat alien. Most people are somewhat wary around them. One reason for that might be their eating habits. Although Naga have cultivated both agricultural and culinary skills, they still like to hunt prey, kill it with their poison and swallow it whole. Because of their humanoid upper body they can only do so with smaller prey, but the other cultivated races tend to find it rather disturbing. And still these same people will be drawn to the Naga by their unnatural charm. Besides their eating habits River Naga are well known for their sorcerers and well spoken diplomats.
River Naga speak Nagissh. The language is dominated by the Naga�s natural hissing. The same hissing pronunciation, that all Naga share, also gives them a hard time when learning any other language. Because of this, they hardly ever bother trying.
Racial Traits:
� +2 Dexterity, +2 Charisma: Their reptilian lower body makes River Naga more dexterous than fully humanoid races. They also seem to have something about them that makes them sympathetic beyond reason.
� River Naga are medium size creatures. They have no bonuses or penalty due to their size
� River Naga have a base land speed of 20 ft.
� Swimming: River Naga are naturally apt swimmers. They can swim at a base speed of 20 ft. without making swim checks and are able to hold their breath twice as long as normal.
� Low-light Vision: River Naga can see twice as far as a human in moon-, torch-, or starlight and similar conditions of poor illumination. They retain their ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.
� Natural Weapons: River Naga can attack either by biting or by using their claws. Both attacks deal 1d4 points of damage. The bite attack inflicts additional poison damage.
� Poison: River Naga can inject a dangerous poison with their bite attack. It deals 1d3 temporary Dexterity damage as initial damage and 1d3 points of temporary Constitution damage as secondary damage. River Naga usually use their poison for hunting, but multiple bites will put pretty much put any foe out of their misery.
� Automatic languages: Nagissh.
� Bonus languages: any, but River Naga have to spend twice as many skill points to learn them as normal
� Favored Class: Sorcerer or Fighter (choose when creating the character)
� Level Adjustment: +1
� Layer: 3