Blood eagle

Blood eagle Level 7 Family Bird family creatures Body Type Avian Classification(s) Living Area(s) Found River's Rest Environs The Citadel BCS Yes HP 120 Speed

Attack Attributes Physical Attacks Claw 100 AS Bite ? AS Pound ? AS Special Offensive Abilities Carry and drop prey while in flight

Defense Attributes Armor None (natural) ASG 1N Defensive Strength (DS) Melee 38 Ranged 17 Bolt 24 Unarmed Defense Factor UDF Target Defense (TD) Bard Base Cleric Base 21 Empath Base 21 Paladin Base Ranger Base Sorcerer Base 21 Wizard Base Minor Elemental 21 Major Elemental 21 Minor Spiritual Major Spiritual Minor Mental

Treasure Attributes Coins Gems Yes Magic Items Boxes Skin a blood red eagle feather Other

With a body length of nearly 3 feet and a wingspan of 8 feet, the blood eagle is without a doubt the largest eagle you've ever seen.  The body is covered with brown and black feathers and its powerful wings raise dust whenever the eagle nears ground.  Large black eyes gleam with intelligence and claws sharp enough to rip apart a bear give this creature a distinctively threatening appearance.

Hunting strategies

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Other information

Between the years 5101 and 5103, blood eagles were the unofficial method of entering the town of River's Rest for characters that arrived with no coins (to pay the drawbridge toll) and no crystal amulets (to return to Wehnimer's Landing.) This was accomplished via the blood eagles' maneuver attack, in which the eagle would dive at an adventurer and send him or her crashing into the Citadel's ravine. Before this time, blood eagles were known to drop silver coins when slain, but the town guru of the time, Bradach, changed the creatures so they no longer dropped coins.

With blinding speed, a blood eagle swoops around behind you and hooks its claws into you!  With a great flap of its wings, the blood eagle carries you off into the air!

The air whooshes by you at great speed, then suddenly stops as you hit the ground with a "THUD!".

... 15 points of damage!
Nasty blow to your right arm!
You are stunned for 1 round!

[Ravine Bottom]
You are at the very bottom of a ravine.  Above you looms an odd structure with ropes and pulleys and lots of things that do complex stuff.  It looks as if the only way out of here is up the southern wall.
Obvious paths: none

References

• Eagle on Wikipedia

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