Fashioned from common vipers, jikini were created for a good purpose—to dispose of dead bodies after a plague swept through the region. Unfortunately, their undead nature turned these snakes to evil, mutating their poisonous bite into a disease and increasing their mental attributes to dangerous levels. When they were finished with their task of corpse clean-up, they turned on those creators and caused the destruction of several communities. Since that time their kind has dispersed to claim marshes all over the continent.