for

God-Empress

's AAAAugust:

or as well called

Done for AAAArchaic, WEEK 4 (20th-26th): in words of Arnilo: "Theme explanation: Once again, we take previous theme and switch it around. Swords, might and magic. Prepare your knights, your hoplites, your princesses and your Emperors Hadrians as badger anthros. Fantasy themes not frowned upon."





the winged beast-peoples of the family of the Car'Harid (same family as the Great Eagles, gryphs, hipogryphs and Car'Haad), resembled something as a cross between a elf, goblinoid or men and a hunting bird, with long talons for feet and large graceful wings for arms.

They where oviparous and carnivorous, and they could be found in Aels, Zarhuy, Ushaenor and western Hieyoks. Vicious and predatory by nature, harpies are the bane of all other life in the areas were they take root, attacking and eating the travelers in the mountains or shores near the cliffs where they had their nests.

Normally, for every fifty female harpies or so, there was only one male, that they procured to keep safe in their nests, from where originated the rumors that said that there existed only female harpies -explaining names as "virgin eagles"-

The Harpies where very territorial, and they lived normally in flocks of about 50 to 60 members, and most of them used just some very rustic stone and bone tools: However other harpy flocks, in contact with other peoples, like the ones who served the Dark Legion of Demons, learned to work the copper, bronze and iron, and even the hability to build in stone, and these more organizated flocks quickly become small kingdoms, like Härps-Izil in the corridors of Wind.

Elven Legends about harpies claim that they descend from a group of elves, who were cursed as punishment by their gods. The reason of the curse vary, from sins as bestiality with birds, to try to learn to fly challenging the gods, to be virgins who, upon their city being attacked by enemies, asked the gods to help them to escape from the fate to fall in enemy hands and be raped and enslaved, and where given wings to fly.

To the Car'Had -Gryphon/Eagle people- legends, harpies where harmful birds, posseded by bad spirits who turned them in monsters, that they had the divine command to hunt down.

Harpy legends in their own accord, make them descendants of the Great Eagle the Sun and the Great Owl the Moon, conceived in the wind as the firstborn children, before the sky, sea and earth where separated from their loving embrance by jealous gods of their love.

Ancient Unlic authors called them "lovely-haired" creatures, and pottery art depicting the harpies featured beautiful women with wings. Harpies as ugly winged bird-women, are a late development, due to a confusion with the Sirens. Later Dumian and Unlic writers detailed their ugliness. They were usually seen as the personifications of the destructive nature of wind.

The mortal enemies of the harpies where other flocks of Harpies, the Gryphon-kin, the Car’Hads, and the Gargoyles in the air, but in land they needed to defend themselves from the ones who wanted to eat their eggs:

The Ur Dur Goblins, created by the demons, and who later escaped, leaved the harpies of Aels in the brink of extinction as they spread in the continent for eating their eggs, so the Harpies needed to live cliffs and mountains impossible to climb.

Some kinds of Harpies where the Miriannar from the islands of Ushaenor and Aels, the blue Kiariatenn of the cliffs of Kuzuardh in the seas of Hieyoks, the Feuerhäaran from the high mountains of Ushaenor, and the Iziellen, from the Corridors of Wind in Aels.