D&D 5E Wandering Monsters- Bird People

[Dannyalcatraz]

Drow Crow?

Crowglodytes?

 

[GX.Sigma]

Because it's fun trying to make sense out of this:

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Wow. I had not seen the picture.

 

[Hussar]

Wow. I had not seen the picture.

That would be the original Fiend Folio image.

To be honest, I always wondered what that horn thing was sticking out the front of his head.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

A resonating chamber for their calls. Brightly colored in the males.

 

[GX.Sigma]

That would be the original Fiend Folio image.

To be honest, I always wondered what that horn thing was sticking out the front of his head.

Half man, half bird, half unicorn?

 

[Klaus]

I researched some more, and "corbie" (or Gray Crow) is name for the Hooded Crow in Ireland, associated with the Morrigan and said to have landed on Cu Chulain's shoulder before he died.

In Celtic folklore, the bird appears on the shoulder of the dying Cú Chulainn,[18] and could also be a manifestation of the Morrígan, the wife of Tethra, or the Cailleach.[19] This idea has persisted, and the Hooded Crow is associated with fairies in the Scottish highlands and Ireland; in the 18th century, Scottish shepherds would make offerings to them to keep them from attacking sheep.[20] In Faroese folklore, a maiden would go out on Candlemas morn and throw a stone, then a bone, then a clump of turf at a Hooded Crow – if it flew over the sea, her husband would be a foreigner; if it landed on a farm or house, she would marry a man from there; but if it stayed put, she would remain unmarried.[21]

The dire corbie could easily be a Western variant of the tengu/kenku, specially if the latter is made into a fey creature. Being an underground creature, it could easily be a creation of the fomorians.