sneakyonfoota
02-15-2011, 02:30 PM
Name: Carrion Deathbird
Type: Bird, necromantic
Overall length: 10 ft.
Wingspan: 20 ft.
Standing height: 8 ft.
Weight: 400 lbs.
(all measurements are approximations)
Description: With each beat of its colossal wings, this flying corpse of a carrion bird wafts its foul scent of decay below. Feeding indiscriminately upon the living and the dead, the Deathbird itself is being consumed by a host of writhing maggots burrowing through it. The regenerative, necromantic magicks that animate this abominable bird reject nature's will to return it to dirt and dust and so it wears a living shroud of endlessly buzzing and crawling flies--themselves seemingly loyal to their home.
Having been reanimated shortly after its death, save for the visible fatal wounds inflicted upon it in life the Deathbird's basic physical features remain in tact--black feathers with white markings on the undersides of its wings, flesh covered feet and head of a red hue and a sharp, hooked beak ideal for rending and tearing flesh.
While in life the bird was ruled by its instincts for self-preservation, in its un-life it has become mindlessly destructive and unpredictable. While solely governed by its need to feed in order to sustain its constant regeneration, perhaps the damage to its mind or the trauma of being raised as an undead is the cause of its unnerving ability to vomit its innards as projectiles or to ensnare its victims in a tangle of its intestines.
Type: Bird, necromantic
Overall length: 10 ft.
Wingspan: 20 ft.
Standing height: 8 ft.
Weight: 400 lbs.
(all measurements are approximations)
Description: With each beat of its colossal wings, this flying corpse of a carrion bird wafts its foul scent of decay below. Feeding indiscriminately upon the living and the dead, the Deathbird itself is being consumed by a host of writhing maggots burrowing through it. The regenerative, necromantic magicks that animate this abominable bird reject nature's will to return it to dirt and dust and so it wears a living shroud of endlessly buzzing and crawling flies--themselves seemingly loyal to their home.
Having been reanimated shortly after its death, save for the visible fatal wounds inflicted upon it in life the Deathbird's basic physical features remain in tact--black feathers with white markings on the undersides of its wings, flesh covered feet and head of a red hue and a sharp, hooked beak ideal for rending and tearing flesh.
While in life the bird was ruled by its instincts for self-preservation, in its un-life it has become mindlessly destructive and unpredictable. While solely governed by its need to feed in order to sustain its constant regeneration, perhaps the damage to its mind or the trauma of being raised as an undead is the cause of its unnerving ability to vomit its innards as projectiles or to ensnare its victims in a tangle of its intestines.