[Icelander]

Originally Posted by smurf

You could start here:

List_of_reptilian_humanoids

Thank you.

I'm pretty good on the humanoid front, I'm mainly looking for more beast-like, serpentine or dragonic reptilian monsters.

Originally Posted by smurf

That includes:

Male

1. Boreas (Aquilon to the Romans): the Greek god of the cold north wind, described by Pausanias as a winged man with serpents instead of legs.
2. Cecrops I: the mythical first King of Athens was half man, half snake
3. Glycon: a snake god who had the head of a man.
4. Ningizzida, Lord of the Tree of Life, mentioned in the Epic of Gilgamesh and linked to the water serpent constellation Hydra.
5. Sobek: Ancient Egyptian crocodile-headed god
6. Typhon, the "father of all monsters" in Greek mythology, was a man from the waist up, and a mass of seething vipers from the waist down.
7. Zahhak, a figure from Zoroastrian mythology who, in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh, grows a serpent on either shoulder

The first three I hadn't considered and I didn't recall that Boreas had any associations with snakes. Sobek/Sebek is a recognised god in the setting, though not one with whom the PCs have much truck. Typhon is a locally used alias for 'Set', an evil, foreign god. Zahhak is not used (technically it might be an obscure synonym and/or a little known demon), but azi dahaka, azdag and Azag are all terms known to scholars, see post above.

Ningizzida surely has no connection at all with the verdant looking tree that the PCs are currently staring at, which grows with amazing vitality even underground, and from which hundreds of serpents are hanging. And whose roots enter a magical looking aquifer, which may be of infinite depth, where a multi-headed water serpent was guarding the tree.

A PC with Theology has identified the motifs as associated with Ningishzida, a son of the goddess of the Underworld, Ereshkigal, whose titles and imagery they've seen used by multiple people in the adventure, but dismissed as a 'slaver and bandit lord with good PR'. Whose son is allegedly in revolt against her, holed up in an ancient, abandoned temple, where he is performing some blasphemous rituals having to do with rebelling against the natural order.

Originally Posted by smurf

Female

• Echidna, the wife of Typhon in Greek mythology, was half woman, half snake.
• Enchanted Moura from Portuguese and Galician folklore appears as a snake with long blonde hair.
• The Gorgons: Sisters in Greek mythology who had serpents for hair.
• The Lamia: a child-devouring female demon from Greek mythology depicted as half woman, half serpent.
• Wadjet pre-dynastic snake goddess of Lower Egypt - sometimes depicted as half snake, half woman

The previously mentioned Mother of Monsters is clearly analogous to Echidna and even mentioned as a wife of Typhon. The PCs have met lamias and expect gorgon-like Medusae.

They've been on a ship called Wadjet, but would probably not expect the locals to consider a deity of their traditional foes anything other than a foreign demon. As opposed to the reliable and trustworthy local demons/gods, such as the 'Wise Lady'/'Queen of Tortures' or Tiamat, the Nemesis of the Gods.

Originally Posted by smurf

Serpents_and_worms

Quite a list but you will need to sort out the non Middle Eastern lore.

Yep, thanks.

Originally Posted by smurf

Of course you could have 'Chinese' and 'European' monsters that have been introduced to the Middle East via the trade routes.

Certainly, but those will usually have connections to something else in the campaign world. I'm specifically looking for anything that has a correspondence in local mythology, which started out Mesopotamian, but has been influenced by three millennia of various fantasy influences, non-human cultures and the local equivalents to cultures such as those who in our world spoke Ancient Egyptian, Anatolian, Armenian, Berber, Hellenic, Illyrian, Indo-Aryan, Indo-Iranian, Thraco-Dacian and a number of Semitic languages.