Sky Clan

The Sky Clan can technically claim the skies over the whole Arcadian Peninsula region as their domain, but effectively dwell in some of the highest places in The Atlas Mountains, ceded to them by the Rock Clan as their aeries. Its members include various winged Cryptids capable of flight, from bat- and bird-people to stranger flying Visitors.
The majority of the Sky Clan is made up of Avians, a human offshoot race engineered by The Preservers.
Avians are tall, slender, and sleekly muscled humanoids with feathers in place of human head hair, clawed hands and feet, and large, feathered wings sprouting from their shoulder blades. Their feathers tend towards black, brown, tan, grey, and white, sometimes with differently colored tips or patterns. Avians have dark eyes with sharp distance vision.
The Avians of the Sky Clan are a “lost” tribe of the main body of their species, found in The Aerie in the arctic mountains of Greenland. They share the same fierce and proud warrior culture, but the Avians of the Cryptid Clans have adopted what their northern cousins would consider the corrupt practice of cannibalism. They feed on the flesh of fallen enemies as a means of taking on a measure of their physical and spiritual power. In the culture of the Cryptid Clans, this practice has actual effects from time-to-time, given the retroviral nature of some Cryptid physiologies. Avians who consume their fallen foes sometimes truly do gain their strengths.
Vohl-Turr, known to outsiders as “Black Vulture” is current chief of the Avians and of the Sky Clan of Cryptids. A relatively young upstart who killed his predecessor (albeit in accordance with the customs of his tribe), Black Vulture is a hunter who tires of hiding from creatures he considers his rightful prey. Vohl-Turr is also deaf to the concerns of the non-Avian minority within the Sky Clan, long-oppressed by their fierce Avian clan-mates.