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Kenku

Among the people who lost more than what was gained in the Spider's War, it's an universal truth that the Kenku were left devastated by it.

Their ability to fly was lost, that day, and so their Voice: before it, fables tell that each one of them had their own tune, which was composed together in the symphony of their coral Voice, the tale and soul of their people.
Adapting had been difficult, but nowadays they're famous for memorizing and repeating the voices that they hear during their lifespan, managing to communicate excellently.

Despite many avian humanoids are, in fact, different species, they all tend to call themselves "Kenku" just for practicability. Kenku are survivalists and conversationalists, equally at home living off the wilderness and finding a niche in dense cities. They accumulate knowledge, tools, and companions, adding them to their collection as they travel.  
Kenku have many avian characteristics. Their faces are tipped with sharp beaks and their scaled forearms and lower legs end in talons. As closed footwear tends to fit poorly unless custom made, many Kenku wear open sandals or simply go barefoot. They are rarely more than 5 feet tall, and they are even lighter than their smaller frames would suggest, as they have hollow bones. A small number of them have vestigial wings incapable of true flight.
Kenku hatch from eggs and are featherless for their first year of life, during which they rarely leave home. They soon grow a downy gray coat, which is replaced by a dark covering of adult feathers by the time they come of age at around 15 years. They use their shed feathers in a variety of tools, from simple writing quills to magical fans to focus their ancestral magic. Many Kenku modify their appearance by dyeing patterns into their feathers or talons, which amplifies their body language and has the added benefit of aiding other humanoids in understanding their expressions.
The Kenku are extremely social, banding together in extended communities with many families living in adjacent houses and sharing the work of the household. In cities, a community may also contain members of other ancestries. Their children raised in the same unit consider each other siblings, usually forgetting which of them share a biological connection.

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