These vile, unscrupulous winged women live only to cause mischief and sorrow. The more elite harpies tend to be masters of elemental storm magic and are much more dangerous.
They are well used to the ways of divine magic and treachery. The common echelons of harpy society attack with crude weapons or simply with their razor sharp talons. Harpies are clearly very intelligent, since they are able to communicate with other races when they wish to. If not driven out, they quickly range out attacking anything and everything they can get. Their nests, littered with the gruesome remains of their victims, are now a common sight from the arid mesas of Durotar to the lush forests of Teldrassil to the icy reaches of the Dragonblight and the Storm Peaks. The vicious winged women have taken to raiding unsuspecting caravans and savaging any who cross into their territories. Once content to confine themselves to their ancestral home in the peaks of the Stonetalon Mountains, the feral and vicious harpies of Kalimdor have spread their influence across the length and breadth of the continent. This immunity does not extend to the toxins of plants, animals, or any magical effects. They are immune to infection and other diseases that stem from rot or contamination. Their nests are obvious by the stench on the wind. The only race rumored to have any peaceful relationship with the harpies are kobolds, who trade their scavenged tools and weapons for information and protection. They have been raiding tauren settlements since time out of mind, and it can only be assumed that they are as much a plague on the quilboars and others. Vicious and predatory by nature, harpies are the bane of all other life in the areas where they take root. In lean times, harpies can lay unfertilized eggs that become female copies of the mother. The males of another species fills the role for a time, after which they become food for the nest.
No males have been reported, so (rumor has it) harpies breed with captive males of many species, though they prefer elves, humans or orcs to either smaller or larger species. Legends about harpies claim that they descend from a group of female night elves who betrayed Queen Azshara, and were cursed as punishment. Harpies originally hail from the Stonetalon Mountains, but have since spread out across Kalimdor and Northrend. Harpies resemble a cross between a night elf female and a hunting bird, with long talons for feet and large graceful wings for arms.
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