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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike D F" data-source="post: 3207992" data-attributes="member: 18256">High in the mountains, far above the other settlements, dwell the Syrenn.  Also called the Birdfolk, the Winged Hags, or the Bloody Singers.They are described as having the legs, feathered tail, and wings of birds of prey, with the torso of a woman, cruel talons upon their hand s and feet,and a hideous face twisted in rage and madness.  But possessing beautiful voices.This is mostly accurate, save that the hideous faces are ceremonial masks they wear into battle to frighten their enemies.  Their true faces are much fairer to look upon.  Their plumage is generally a reddish brown, though greys are somewhat common, and even rarer snow white individuals exist.  The unfeathered skin is gernerally quite pale.  Their hair and eyebrows are somewhere between hair and feathers in texture.  Eyes tend towards either pale blue or dark yellow, and in structure very like that of an eagle.  The Syrenn are a selfish people, who care little for non-Syrenn, and hold the other folk of Aleasans in disdain, referring to them as "dirt folk", "mud crawlers", and the like.  They generally swoop in and take what they want, raiding the other peoples dwelling here, retreating to their own homes, which are well-defended and impossible to reach without flight.Though some tribes are more peaceful, if still arrogant, most fall into this piratical economy.In battle they use their magical voices to entrance foes.  Their preferred weapon is an elaborately carved wooden war club or mace.  Ranged bows or thrown javelins or half spears are occasionally used from above.Fortunately, they are only a problem for a little over half the year.  During the coldest months they live elsewhere, their clans and tribes flocking to the south and warmer climes.  None know where they go, but wherever it is, it contains trees not seen in Aleasana, with white wood, for their white masks and weapons are carved from it.All known Syrenn are female.  Various theories on their menfolk exist.  Some say they keep them in their unreacable mountain holds.  Others believe that they stay wherever it is that the Syrenn go during the winter.  Some believe that they form their own tribes who live elsewhere, only rendevouzing with their women folk to mate, likely in the south.  A darker belief is that there are no man among the Syrenn, and that they steal the fair men of land bound people to seed them with child or to sate their dark lusts.  And some believe that perhaps the Syrenn may simply not need men, and that no males exist among their race.OOC: And here's the Aleasana Harpy.</blockquote>

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