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>Anon, what are your setting's harpies like?

Distantly related to Sphinx, they're rude, mean, kinda cute, kinda stupid, but they have that same morbid curiosity and a vague cunning that belays an ability to become fantastically intelligent if given the resources. Both the males and females look similar, but in bird-fashion it is the males that possess the larger breasts and garish colouration.

Obligate carnivores, they have a fondness for picking up prey and dropping it off the side of the mountains they live on to let the fall kill them. They prey on small to medium herbivores, but will also attack people if it's convenient or if they happen to be loaded with irresistible treasures (anything shiny or colorful like polished glass or bronze, coral, pearls & shells, exotic feathers, gold & silvery jewelry). The exception is Aasimar. Harpies are very broody, very cliquey, and very prideful, and see the Aasimar as a "fellow great winged people", capable of peacefully co-habituating with the more humanoid Aasimar despite the stark contrast in alignments/disposition.

Harpies are also completely subservient to their much larger, more powerful cousins, the Sphinx; out of a mixture of admiration and abject fear. Most Sphinx will have a brood of Harpy nesting in some unused corner of their lair whether they invited them or not.

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