Minaret Birds (Harpies)

The creatures known as Minaret Birds are not natural birds, but living works of alchemical devotion shaped within the hidden chambers of artificers. Their forms resemble great hunting falcons and desert raptors, yet their flesh has been altered through sacred procedures and forbidden anatomical craft. Nobles prize them not merely as companions, but as symbols of refinement, authority, and spiritual discipline.

Their feathers shimmer with unnatural colours beneath the desert sun — bronze, ash-gold, and deep crimson — while their eyes possess an unsettling stillness that many find difficult to endure. To look into the gaze of a Harpy for too long is to feel one’s thoughts slow and drift, as though memory itself were becoming lost beneath warm desert winds. Enemy soldiers caught beneath their stare have wandered from formation, forgotten commands, or stood motionless while death approached them.

Yet it is their voices that inspire the greatest fear. Minaret Birds do not cry like ordinary birds. They recite fragments of sacred verses in tones that resonate deep within the body, vibrating through armour, bone, and thought alike. Among the faithful, these sounds are described as solemn and beautiful. To enemies and the damned, they become agonising — a droning hymn that strips away focus and fills the mind with dread. Some claim the birds do not truly sing at all, but force the listener’s own soul to echo back at itself, as if the spirit were being weighed and judged in real time.

Though often carried by nobles and commanders, Harpies are also used upon the battlefield as scouts, hunting creatures, and living omens. They circle above caravans and warbands alike, watching silently from ruined minarets, canyon walls, or the skeletal remains of ancient fortresses. Where one is seen, death or revelation rarely follows far behind. In some chronicles, their arrival is recorded as the herald of decisive battles, their shadow upon the sand marking the threshold between survival and annihilation. To the faithful, they are reminders of divine order; to the condemned, they are the embodiment of inevitable ruin.

“When the bird begins to sing, even the desert listens.”

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One model – “Minaret Birds (Harpies)”, designed by Wargames Crew

Total size  23mm and 35mm

The Sotnyk model is NOT included in the set.

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