# Vine Serpent

Five metres of vine-green muscle. It tastes the air for warm things.

Character · Fictionalized · Established

Stable ID: `starlight-snake` · Revision 1 · Updated 2026-10-30

Context: [Starlight Menagerie](/field-guide/collections/starlight-menagerie/)

[Web page](/field-guide/entities/starlight-snake/) · [JSON record](/field-guide/entities/starlight-snake/record.json)

## At a glance

- Yellow and black bands from nose to tail, and a broad pale frond at the head that glows like a leaf in moonlight. Prey that walks toward the light learns too late.

- Hunts Seven from about 30 metres away and keeps coming. A hit takes 14 points off a 100-point shield.

- Home: Thallo IV.

## Appearances

- [Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html) (context: [Starlight Menagerie](/field-guide/collections/starlight-menagerie/))

- [The creatures](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/creatures.html): Named in this published page.

- [The map of Doorly Orbital](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/map.html): Named in this published page.

## Dated changes

- 2026-10-30: Added from the named source to the Field Guide.

## Open questions

- Inspired by Green tree python; the guide describes its game depiction.

## Sources

- [Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html)

## Reference library

### Scene

![Vine Serpent in the Starlight Menagerie.](/gamelab/assets/starlight-menagerie/creatures/snake-three.webp)

Vine Serpent in the Starlight Menagerie.

[Download original](/gamelab/assets/starlight-menagerie/creatures/snake-three.webp) · [Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html) · v1 · SHA-256: `99563a9d6d9328c6aab9b755acb1e43b4ed1da263f95bd7889787e4d66a80fb6`