Need your help. A not human nation is supposed to be a magocracy.

>>53986680
Why can't it be both?

>>53986697
>city of spires and canals
>birdmen above, snakemen below
>rival academies of magic each of which will only admit either birdmen or snakemen
>worship a coatl god of magic, the feathered serpent
>kingdom is ruled by a ceremonial marriage between the head of the council of bird-academies and the head of the council of snake-academies (this can be an opportunity for the mage of the right gender to skip ahead of the queue in terms of succession)
>basically highly dangerous mages and magic balanced on a pinprick point of racial tension, ready to collapse any second
>enter the PCs

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>>53986697
Quetzalcoatls?

>>53986812
Birbs n sneks fukin. Hawt n lewd.

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>>53986930
also I realise now kind of ripping off Unsounded by proxy (there's an illegal mage guild in that setting caught between a gigantic six-titted skinless crow lady and the male equivalent of this thing here).

>>53987025
You say "caught between", as if the Lady didn't discard them for her new sexy undead paladin boytoy.

And whatever the fuck's up with her relation to Murkoph as well

>>53987063
He probably suckle does teats and swell with power.

>>53987063
Yeah, but just because your tittybird isn't listening to you doesn't mean you ought to jump into bed with a murderous brain-eating snek rapist.

>>53987222
This kinda shit would never happen in Alderode.

>>53986812
This is a good idea.

Also, approaches to magic:

>Birds conceptualize magic as music, singing songs of magic

>Snakes conceptualize magic as string/cloth, weaving tapestries of magic through motions and dance

>together the birds make music and the snakes dance to it in elaborate seasonal ceremonies