Blacklace Harpies
The only sentient creatures to regularly appear in the Blacklace Flats are a robust band of harpies who have roosted there for generations, and little is known about them among mainstream sources of knowledge, aside from the fact that they are infamous for making a very deadly place even deadlier. Almost all of the settled groups of sentient creatures--harpies included--have some sort of rapport with the Greymantle rangers, but the Blacklace harpies have remained so confident in their protected place in the Flats that the rangers have not successfully leveraged any sort of appreciable relationship with them.
All harpy flocks are closeknit, but the Blacklace band are known for being brutally loyal to one another. The Flats are uncompromising in their deadliness, and even harpies occasionally find themselves stuck in the quickmud with the rising tide approaching. It is very rare to find a harpy off on her own away from at least one or two other members of her flock, but even if it does occur and an isolated harpy finds herself in trouble, it is not long before her absence is noticed and the flock spreads out to find her. Whether she is found stuck in the mud or facing off with a foe, all available members of the flock swoop in to her aid as soon as the trouble is discovered, and they are ferocious in their protective wrath. With this sort of loyalty and kinship, it is understandable that when a Blacklace harpy falls, she is mourned by the rest of the flock.
During high tide, the harpies tend to roost quietly in the trees of the islands in Blacklace bay, and head out in search of food during low tide. With their keen senses, they hunt large crabs, worms, turtles, and other wildlife in the mud of the Flats, as well as keeping watch for any sentient creatures in the area. They sing to pass the time as well as strategically when sentient creatures are in the area, luring them into the mud so they become trapped or drown, feeding the entire flock for longer than a few crabs would.
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