True Neutral, Rogue (Thief) multiclassed into Druid (Circle of the Moon).
A 14-year-old young kenku with black feathers, born in a small kenku roost near Loudwater, on the southern edge of the High Forest. The roost was not inside the town, but in an abandoned old watchtower just beyond its walls.
It grew up between the edge of the town and the edge of the forest. By day, it listened to the bells of caravans at the city gate, the hammering of the blacksmith’s shop, and the grinding of carriage wheels over stone roads. By night, it listened to owls calling from deep within the woods, crows crying in the dark, and the wind sweeping over the treetops.
“Kraak” is the name it gave itself. Not a “name” in the usual sense, but a wish, an identity it chose. It heard crows calling in the sky. It saw them beating their wings. It realized they had feathers the same color as its own, and thought: Oh. That is what I want to become.
But the other kenku in the roost could not teach it that. They were skilled at mimicking birds, merchants, guards, horses, and all kinds of other sounds — but flight was the one thing they did not know. After discovering that Loudwater itself did not seem to hold the knowledge it was looking for either, Kraak finally decided to go and see the outside world.
Leaving behind its old family and companions was difficult. Kenku are flocking creatures by nature, after all, and the roost contained everything it had ever known. But in the end, it still left.
Because it wanted to become a real crow. A crow that could truly fly, perch on rooftops, leave without explanation — and perhaps, one day, return without guilt.
But they are not slaves to them.
...And then, before the little kenku had gotten very far with its bundle of rations and shiny treasures, it was captured and dragged into the Underdark.
Drawn by 米画师：希爪 and commissioned by me.
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