Editing Awnshegh (section)

==[[Harpy|The Harpy]]==

Once, there was a bard named Khabara Habban, someone born with strong Azrai blood but tried to resist its dark allure by living an upright life as an heroic adventurer.  She and her party were set upon by a flock of harpies after they'd used up most of their resources and hadn't had a chance for a long rest, resulting in a near-party wipe.  However, as Khabara was trying to turn into a bird and bail, with everyone else either dead or bleeding out, the harpy queen got her through the heart with what turned out to be a mysterious weapon from the Shadow World that allows a murderer to take on the form of their slain victims.  In what will come to be a bit of a pattern with some awnshegh, this mixture of bloodtheft, magic, and other such effects resulted in a clusterfuck, ultimately leaving a merged being who was neither truly the harpy queen nor Khabara, the awnshegh known as the Harpy.

Now effectively a 12th level bard in a sexy [[monstergirl]] body, the Harpy mostly keeps to her own Holding, the Isle of the Harpy off the southern coast.  (Which is actually an archipelago.)  She still has Khabara's intellect, but the harpy queen's sense of priorities, and is unconsciously paranoid and lashes out at tokens of her old life; destroying all her old instruments for instance.  The various harpies and birds on the islands do her bidding, and she operates as a bit of a crime boss, charging protection fees from those who fish or ship in her waters and raiding those who don't pony up.