Bronze serpent

Bronze serpents were a type of large serpentine construct.

Description
These serpentine constructs were made of articulated bronze rings. Their eyes glowed a bluish-white and their powerful jaws dripped with electrical sparks. They typically measured in length and weighed around.

Abilities
Their bodies were immune to harm from electrical attacks, immune to spells that affected the mind, and could see in areas of total darkness out to a range of. Furthermore, electrical attacks made on a bronze serpent would heal its body.

Combat
Bronze serpents typically concentrated initial attacks on those that appeared most vulnerable to their fangs. They attacked by grappling and constricting the bodies of their enemies, then biting with their electrical fangs.

Ecology
As constructs, they had little to no effect on their surrounding environment, and could be found in any land ecosystem.

Creation
Bronze serpents could be created from of bronze by a caster of above-average skill who could cast arcane spells. The creation process also required use of the spells geas/quest, limited wish, polymorph any object, and shocking grasp.

History
These serpentine constructs were originally created in tropical lands to guard the temples of serpentine deities. Over the centuries the secrets of their creation spread, making it possible to see them almost anywhere in the Realms.

In 1374 DR, bronze serpents could be found among the many constructs that guarded the Arcturiadoom level of Undermountain.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Expedition to Undermountain