Green asps

The green asp is the only venomous serpent indigenous to Calenardhon and the northern White Mountains. It is a sociable creature (for a snake), making its home with as many as fifty of its fellows in empty rabbit or ground squirrel burrows. On sunny days, the green asp community will come out to sun themselves en masse on the slopes near their subterranean home.

Green asps have dull green skin and are usually fat and torpid, with puffy poison glands below their eyes. They are considered unattractive even by those fond of serpents. Their fetid odor, reminiscent of rotting strawberries, does nothing to relieve this unpleasant impression. The (5th lvl) bite of this snake is rarely fatal, but the area surrounding the wound generally becomes necrotic, turning awful shades of violet and yellow-green before sloughing off, usually exposing the bone. These dreadful afflictions may take months to heal. In some cases (15% chance, modified by Co stat bonus), the snake's injection may even cause the entire limb to turn gangrenous and fall off. Regardless of the primary effects, however, the victim will in any case be incapacitated for 3-6 days with a high fever and hallucinations.