The lizardmen are a fallen race, broken by the wheel of history and little recovered after their grand empire of Zanaga vanished centuries ago. Taller and thinner than the Mahkim, and more similar in appearance to a scaled Human, they dwell in the ruins of their once-magnificent cities. In the sacred moon city of Xitotl, the upper levels house Humans and Mahkim, while the lizardmen live in the shadows below. The living ziggurat of Teno’tek, whose location changes from season to season, remains a center for the lizardmen, although they have long forgotten how to open its great sun gates and venture inside. Often found alongside Mahkim, lizardmen wear trappings of ancient, broken technologies and wield strange tools with purposes that are a mystery even to their owners.
The lizard god, Moakileki, is an ancient figure of legend believed to have caused the downfall of the great lizardman empire. A beast of entropic glory, Moakileki is worshipped only by hateful and evil beings who seek the death of the world. Some say the last act of the lizardmen’s potent spellcasters, the Crystal Seers, was to cage Moakileki, giving up their lives in the last days of their empire to entomb the god somewhere beneath the jungles of Zanaga. Heroes seeking out the fabled bejeweled skulls of the Crystal Council may find themselves on the path to Moakileki—and, if they are very unfortunate, perhaps even to the giant lizard’s final resting place.
References
- Realms of Terrinoth