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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6222531" data-attributes="member: 57383">How's this:The bird maidens are a secretive sisterhood of shapechangers similar to swanmays. Unlike swanmays, bird maidens can shapechange into many kinds of birds, not just one. The bird form a bird maiden assumes may allude to her personality - a  parrot for an extrovert individual, a vulture for a morbid one, and so on. All bird maidens are mendicant nature priestesses. They can be of any alignment, but few are evil. Their sisterhood is not an organized cult, and is united only by their shared faith and religious practices. It has no hierarchy, apart from the master-pupil relationship between a bird maiden and whoever taught her the mysteries of how to become one.  Bird maidens wander the countryside teaching folk about the natural world. A good or neutral bird maiden tries to do this by healing the afflicted and showing people how to live in harmony with their environment, via advice on sustainable farming, animal husbandry, and the like. They do sometimes punish those who despoil nature. The rare evil bird maidens are more vindictive, and enjoy teaching 'lessons' about the cruelty of the wild, by bringing death and ruination  to creatures who are ignorant or abusive toward nature.Most bird maidens travel alone or in the company of her daughters, who  she will be raising to become bird maidens themselves. Bird maidens  never keep sons. A maiden who bears a male baby usually gives him away  to  foster parents, but some evil maidens abandon their infant boys in the  wilderness.A bird maiden's shapeshifting powers come from a magical garment made of feathers. This garment is part of the maiden's being, and should it be destroyed, the maiden will die. Bird maidens are sometimes forced to become the slaves - or even wives - of someone who steals their feather garment and threatens to destroy it (and her). Should the maiden manage to regain the stolen garment from her 'lord' or 'husband', she will immediately fly away, but often returns to kill or pauperize her persecutor.Bird Maidens In Al-QadimIn the Land of Fate, it is said that bird maidens are taught their powers and rites by Aarakocra priests in a secret temple known as The Crown of All Feathers. According to rumor, this is a great wooden fortress hidden somewhere in the highest hills.</blockquote>

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