Sarrukh

The sarrukh are a fictitious race of reptilian humanoids in the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons & Dragons. They are one of the five progenitor races, or Creator Races, of Faerûn. Eons ago, they built and maintained empires across most of the continent. These ancient and evil creatures are now almost extinct. Most sages who know of the sarrukhs' past glory simply refer to them as the saurians, or the progenitors of the Scaled Ones.

The sarrukh have left a lasting legacy: the racial diversity of the scaled races of Faerûn. They took the scaly, reptilian animals and monsters native to Abeir-Toril and modified them into sentient beings such as the yuan-ti, nagas, pterafolk, and many others.

Overview
Millennia ago, the sarrukh dominated all of the fictional continent of Faerûn. Their mighty empires were the first in the world, encompassing the jungles along the shore of Azulduth, the eastern shore of the Narrow Sea, and the Chultan Peninsula. The sarrukh enslaved or sacrificed other creatures in the name of their god, the World Serpent.

Problems of their own making eventually caused the sarrukh empires to crumble. This created a vacuum in which the sarrukhs' created races rose to prominence and established power centers of their own—many of which are still active to this day. However, the sarrukh have still managed to remain relevant in modern-day Faerûn. Despite their small numbers, they still command the loyalty and respect of the races that they had created. An immense rift has formed, though, between the surviving sarrukh clans, and the enmity among them could lead to open warfare between the scaled races.

Physical Description
Their are two different types of sarrukh—those with bipedal bodies and those with more serpentine bodies. The ones who are more serpentine resemble certain yuan-ti abominations, with snakelike bodies and heads as well as powerful arms that end in vicious claws. The bipedal kind of sarrukh has a humanoid upper torso, humanoid arms and legs, and a snakelike lower body. All sarrukh have distinctive, gleaming red eyes that strike fear into the hearts of all the scaly races.

Racial History
The sarrukh built the first significant civilizations of Toril, their empires rising and falling between −35, 000 DR and −33, 500 DR.