Help me visualize tropical bird-man bard!

[Pielorinho]

Okay, so I'm playing a half-elven, half-birdspirit bard in my current game. It's set in an area vaguely akin to Northern Africa, but I'm basing the bird-spirit part off the bird of paradise: something flashy and showy and colorful and not parroty-looking. Statwise, I'm using Arcana Unearthed's Loresong faen.

Soon, I expect to undergo a ritual to make myself even more birdlike: I'll do the equivalent of becoming a Spryte (also from Arcana Unearthed). This means I'll go to tiny size and will gain flight.

And I'm having a heckuva time visualizing what I'd look like. Can anyone help me imagine this guy so that he'll be nifty-looking and not like a goofy grotesquery? A picture of something vaguely appropriate would be great, but a verbal description would also rock.

Thanks!
Daniel

 

[Hand of Evil]

Dress, the feathered cloak (half-3/4-full), made from the feathers of the bird of paradise and patterned the same, during performance the clock is moved as wings as part of dance.

 

[Pielorinho]

Um, is this something to do with your sig file, Hand? I get the impression there's a very cool link somewhere that you're alluding to, but I'm not sure what it is!

Daniel

 

[Hand of Evil]

Um, is this something to do with your sig file, Hand? I get the impression there's a very cool link somewhere that you're alluding to, but I'm not sure what it is!

Daniel

Sig

 

[Pielorinho]

Now you're just toying with me.
Daniel

 

[Hand of Evil]

Now you're just toying with me.
Daniel

No, really this is the whole of my post:
Dress, the feathered cloak (half-3/4-full), made from the feathers of the bird of paradise and patterned the same, during performance the clock is moved as wings as part of dance.

By half: I mean lenght of cloak.

You could also do facial tatoos, increasing the complexity of the tatoo as the character goes up in level.

 

[der_kluge]

I think you need a more bizarre character, personally. I mean, that's just not weird enough!

As for pictures, here you go.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=Papageno+&btnG=Search

It's "Papageno", the bird man from Mozart's _The Magic Flute_

Who says a love of opera doesn't apply to D&D! Pfaw!

 

[Pielorinho]

I think you need a more bizarre character, personally. I mean, that's just not weird enough!

Heh--one other character is part rat and crippled and rides a wardog. Another is part earth-elemental. Another can turn into a small wildcat, a Hengoyokai (sp?) from Oriental Adventures. It's an animistic campaign.

As for pictures, here you go.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=Papageno+&btnG=Search

It's "Papageno", the bird man from Mozart's _The Magic Flute_

Who says a love of opera doesn't apply to D&D! Pfaw!

Fantastic--thanks!

Hand, I think I see what you're saying--interesting! He does have a cloak that's feathered, but I'm looking for a way to visualize his natural shape, the avian equivalent of a centaur.

Daniel

 

[ajanders]

Looks like

The character is not a winged human like an angel, right? They've gone more birdlike...like a parrot bodied harpy, maybe?
Or look at the old aaracroaka ...

 

[Hand of Evil]

The character is not a winged human like an angel, right? They've gone more birdlike...like a parrot bodied harpy, maybe?
Or look at the old aaracroaka ...

second the aaracroaka from 1st edition, more bird like than man.