I had a different post I wanted to write today but I am entirely not in the mood for it, so let’s talk about something different: self-definition. So obviously I have a name in meatspace. And there’s plenty of people who use that for me. But for years now, I’ve felt as if “Arrow” is […]
Tag: bird
More Bird Rites
After the last post, my friend ircnetsplit (go check out his books!) mentioned a potential myth for Thordani feather imping. “I’m seeing a (possibly embelished, possibly not) story of a group that got mauled pretty badly by something (combat, accidents, etc) and they pool their feathers to one person who goes for help or to […]
Bird rites
One thing I like exploring in some of my art commissions and stories are how cultures might have different developments, based on various factors. With the Thordani, a race of eagle people, there’s been a bit of ink spilled over this. Particularly their religious stuff. They’re from a Greyhawk-inspired D&Dish world originally, and while I […]
Finding Aikine
My first OC that got any serious play that wasn’t a sort of furry wish-fulfillment kind was Kawheek. In 2004, on Avians.net IRC, one channel member wanted to start a D&D campaign. We got four people together, and everyone wanted to play birds. Instead of using the aarakocra, which at the time were wing-arm birds, […]
Stop saying cannibalism
Chickens are from Superorder Galloanserae, which split off from Neognathae 85 million years ago. Hawks are part of “Neoaves”, an entirely different superorder that split from Neognathae around the time of K-T extinction event. While it’s theorized that the first placental mammals divered about 100-85 MYA, there are no known placental mammal fossils from before […]