Harpy - Playable Race

The Harpies are a humanoid player race that are all female and have bird like features, such as feathers and wings. They are a fairly nice race that like to be sociabale but prefer to stay in their groups known as Rafters.

Harpies are commonly born to a harpy mother and human father, due to human males being the most common. But it's not rare for harpies to mate with other humanoid races.

Harpies usually like to stay out of things such as conflict and wars, and prefer to have a nice enjoyable life where they can relax and help their Rafter. They are often seen as mischievous for their love of play.

Community

They usually live in Rafters ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand, in areas were they can find food. Within their Rafter harpies take individual jobs and make a tight-knit community. Rafters would take in outsiders as long as they help thier community. Common locations for Harpy Rafters are: Coastal, Forests, and Mountains.

Harpies, due to their connections and husbands, live in fairly modern communities when compared to the rest of the world. They live in matriarchal societies, who's leaders consist of elected harpies, elder harpies, and possibly a few males of other races, to represent the population of their Rafter. Their community would rarely ask for outside help because to them what they need, they already have and if they don't they could just take.

Simple life

Harpies live a pretty simple life. Harpies prefer to stay in their Rafter, with their own kind and the sense of community that it comes with. Due to strength in numbers, it's also more secure for them, and an easy place to return to for refuge.

Harpies, though they understand currency and ownership, often find themselves in trouble as they lack social awarness outside their Rafter. Often harpies would accidentally steal things of interest and kill livestock of farms not knowing it was was owned.

Due to their love of play harpies tend to mess with animals and other races. An example; usually over water they would drop a small animal or creature, like a kobold, from up high and try to catch them before they hit the water, testing their speed or play games such as tossing the creature between each other at incredibal heights.

Harpies like to stay in their Rafter but are often very sociable with other races. Though they often prefer the warmth of their own home and close companions, they would not shy away from doing something that seems interesting or fun to them. Harpies would often have a curious mind and like to travel with others to explore the world outside. Due to their nature harpies would also rarely be seen by themselves.

Since all harpies are female they need males of other humanoid races to reproduce. They can mate with males from most races as long as the they are humanoid and warm blooded, such as humans, dragonborn, elves, gnomes, Aarakocra, and so on. Harpies give live birth, usually to 1 or 2 offspring at a time. All female offspring, or harplets, are of course harpies and about 1 out of every 4 offspring are male and are the same race as the father.

Harpies would often, after reaching maturity, look for a mate and fly of from their Rafter to find one. After finding a suitable husband harpies usually would return flying to their Rafter with the chosen male being clutched, by his shoulders, with her talons.

Unknown Origin

The origin of Harpy race is mostly unknown. It has been thought that harpies came from the FeyWild due to their nature, appearance, and stories they share. When asked about their origin harpies would say, that they kind of always been there with the rest of the races and that they were once lost in a large forest but now are free to roam.

When attempts where made to find harpies in the FeyWild no harpies could be found. The oldest records of harpies, do not go nearly as far back as the other races such as humans or elves, the harpy race is a fairly recent race. It has been theorized by scholars that an event must have happened in the FeyWild that lead to the creation of the harpies.

Harpy Names

Harpies tend to often have short or nice sounding names that they like. A mother will often name the harplet and, if she wants, the harplet's maiden name can come from the father's surname, though not all harpies have second names.

Common Harpy Names: Hailey, Nina, Flutter, Jennifer, Holly, Faith, Happy, Silfi, Kora, Merry, Sellen, Ditru, Ana, Joji, Ariel, Clair, Mina, Gladis, Pear, Hinata, Rose, Koko, Brandy, Onna, Linda, Compass, Kirie, Magi, Konifer, Arely, Yoko, Bibi, Koraiya, Aurora, Acorn, Bella, Lili, Twinkle, Robin

Harpy Traits

Your harpy character has certian characteristics in common with all other harpies.

Ability Score Increase. Dexterity score increases by 1.

Age. Harpies reach adulthood in their mid teens and rarely live little more than a century. Though they still age, harpies keep a youthful appearance.

Alignment. Harpies vary in alingment but a simple nature inclines some harpies toward a neutral and/or chaotic alignment.

Size. Harpies vary in height and build, from about 4 feet to a little over 5 feet. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Flight. You have a flying speed of 40 feet. To use this speed, you can't be wearing heavy armor.

Talons. You are proficient with your unarmed strikes, which deal 1d4 slashing damage.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language of your choice. Harpies do not have their own language they usually know common and one language from a person they know.

Subraces The three main kinds of harpy, SkySinger, FastWind, and HighFlyer, are more closely related than true subraces such as any harpy can have close family, like sisters, from another subrace. Choose one of these subraces.