Shield of Sparrows · World

Crux

• creature

Massive eagle-like monsters: males with auburn feathers, enormous beaks capable of severing humans, thick pointed horns, talons sharper than blades; females towering three times man-height upright with ink-black feathers and eyes, sharp curved beak, wing-front spikes not horns, massive grave-gouging talons, enormous sweeping wings, feathers iron-hard resisting arrows; transforms post-death into naked red-haired woman with spiraling orange/strawberry/copper curls; far more powerful and deadly than normal animals.