A Picture's Worth | Of Witches & Specters
Of Witches & Specters On birds and their species: Historian # 1: '[...] The "swifts" are a family of highly aerial birds. [...] from all I have observed and the other accounts I have read, it can be confidently stated that they have developed an amazing lifestyle of catching prey mid-flight. [...] for their negligible size of legs (or no legs at all, according to some accounts) these birds are referred to as "Apous" or footless. [...] Poppiri the hermit druid traced and followed a single Apous, finally to have given up his chase as the bird never landed, not even once in his three months of pursuit. "If I didn't need to, I wouldn't either, ever set foot on these tainted lands, and forever soar alongside angels; forever in flight..." concludes Poppiri.' Historian # 2: '[...] For all those who form a covenant with the devil are granted the gift of flight. They are to attend all gatherings, answer all summons and for ...