Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24.44.141.89-20131113224543/@comment-160529-20131219201152

The Tsaesci are snake-like vampiric beings that are able to assimilate at will the features of the beings that they feed on. Hence why assimilation and consumption are of similar meaning in their native tongue.

When they "consumed" the dragons, they were trying to become like them... this is spelled out pretty clearly in mysterious akavir. And as shown in their culture afterwords they maintained red dragons as mounts.

They did the same with men, becoming man-like in appearance and maintaining a population of humans in their service to maintain these features they desired.

Most likely the Tsaesci nation is composed of a good number of humans and snake people.

For the record I have not once seen the human(oid) population of the Tsaesci called "tsaesci" every single time they are human-like they are reffered only as "Akaviri". The word is never spoken when reffering to Sky Haven temple or anything... just the word Akaviri.