A hunched figure slinks from the shadows, its silhouette avian yet unmistakably humanoid.
Standing just under five feet tall, the Kenku is cloaked in mottled feathers of soot-black and smoky gray, each plume whispering softly as it moves with eerie grace.
Its beady, coal-dark eyes glimmer with cunning intelligence, ever watchful, ever calculating.
The Kenku's beakβsharp, curved, and polished like obsidianβclicks quietly as it mimics the sounds it has stolen from the world around it: a guardβs laugh, the jingle of coins, the creak of a floorboard.
Deprived of its wings by ancient curse or divine punishment, the Kenku moves on clawed feet, nimble and silent.
Its arms end in dexterous, talon-tipped fingersβperfect for picking locks, pilfering purses, or drawing a blade without a sound.
It wears a patchwork of scavenged leather, mismatched buckles, and tattered cloaks that seem to blend effortlessly into the urban grime or forest gloom.
The Kenku does not speak in its own voiceβit cannot.
Instead, it builds a language from fragments: stolen phrases, echoed cries, rhythmic sounds.
A conversation with a Kenku is like listening to a haunting collage of memory and mimicry, every word borrowed, every sentence a puzzle.
Yet behind this mimicry lies a mind as sharp as its beakβclever, adaptive, and always hungry.
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