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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4061188" data-attributes="member: 2067">They were half-snake, half-women monsters that ate children. The legend basically goes that there was a queen named Lamia who had her children stolen away by a jealous Hera (because like every other lady in ancient Greece, she was makin' it with Zeus), and became monstrous as she ate other people's children in vengeance. There's also a bit about her being able to take out her eyes, or never close her eyes, and it's said that she created more in her image that now go around kind of like bogeymen, eatin' kids up. She was kind of a monster in the model of Scylla or even Medusa or the Gorgons: a woman-snake-beast. She was dangerous to men because she wasn't really the family type: she'd eat up her own children, too. But her top half was supposed to be very comely, and she was supposed to have magical abilities (probably including shapeshifting).I'm not sure where the lion-bodied person comes from, or the wisdom drain, but I'd be happy if the 4e version had something to do with snakes and liked to eat babies and could hide out/use disguises to trick others. That'd be sweet enough.</blockquote>