Harpy (swift) - "Zephyrs"
Realm: Hellas
Typical Height Range: Males - 3'6" to 4'9" /// Females - 3'6" to 4'9"
Typical Weight Range: Males - 50 to 80 lbs /// Females 50 to 80 lbs
Typical Alignments: L
Typical Marks: Hermes, Artemis
Forcemarks: Hermes
Instinctive Traits: Efficiency, speed, cooperation, subconscious navigation, memory
The swift variant of the harpy is a strong, fast flier, capable of travelling long distances at high speeds, albeit with less load than a vulture harpy is capable of carrying. Their feather patterns vary greatly, including nearly any colour in nearly any configuration, though those that resemble the actual birds are most common. Swifts are smaller than their contemporaries, and slight of build. The females tend to have small breasts, and both genders are feathered up to their necks, though the feathers down their fronts tend to be rather fine.
The zephyrs live to help. It's in their mindset and their physical traits. While they are very similar to "standard" harpies in terms of general shape, the resemblance ends there. The swift-based harpies are clean, fast, and energetic, and need far less sleep compared to virtually any other intelligent species. Flocks and families of zephyrs have set up numerous courier and ferry services, and nearly all airborne communications go through zephyrs. Forcemarks find themselves very rapidly accepted into local zephyr culture and businesses, and the hard-coded mentality of the body inevitably finds the work satisfying, which has historicly proven quite healthy for zephyr forcemarks. In addition, they memorize terrain and speech almost eideticly, able to quote back long strings of speech or text with no reference, and a near flawless sense of navigation.
Very few other species can get the drop on zephyrs in the air, since they typically outpace anything else with their sheer speed and climb rates. Their metabolism results in a tendency towards high energy foods. A minor oddity, their saliva is an effective adhesive when it dries. They're fairly common throughout Hellas, but have been largely pushed out of the Pelopennisos by the burgeoning stormwing population.
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