Wilora

Description
Wiloras have prismatic colored stork bodies, head, and wings, with blue legs. Their beaks are straight and sharp and are ravenlike. It looks like a rainbow colored bird of paradise with a bright colorful crest and long tail feathers.

Abilities
During the day they are stuck in their true forms, but at night the can polymorph into any large or smaller avian or birdlike creature, including giant eagles, giant owls, griffins, hippogriffs, or even owlbears. They can also transform into the last creature they had a telepathic link with. In their natural form, they have a hypnotic song that hypnotizes creatures within 30 feet of it with a captivating sound. As it is a sonic ability, it can be countered with a bard's countersong. After hypnotizing a creature with its song, it will use its Memory-Snatching Gaze to look a creature in the eye and create a telepathic link. Once linked, turning your gaze will not free a victim from the link. Each round a victim spends with this link, the wilora can telepathically ask one question, which the victim must answer to the best of its ability, instantly transferring the full answer directly into the wiloras mind. The wilora can only use this ability on one creature at a time and must concentrate as with a spell. A creature that has freed itself from the wilora's telepathic link is safe from the ability for 24 hours. The wilora is resistant to all enchantment spells and effects.

Personality
They are cunning and deceptive creatures, normally pretending to be a local birds. They like to choose targets with whom they enjoy taking amusing, humiliating, or hedonistic memories. Sought out for their talents, they are often befriended by thieves guilds to get information from prisoners and city officials, gain alibis, blackmailing wealthy or powerful targets. If the relationship gets rocky, wiloras are known to expose and destroy the guild by giving away their criminal activities.

Combat
At night, wiloras take advantage of their alternate forms to defend themselves or to make an escape, but often trust their assumed forms to adequately defend themselves. If caught during the day, it will rely heavily on its hypnotic song to escape.

Society
They are mostly solitary creatures.

History
It is believed they are creations of Beshaba, formed by soaking the eggs some tropical bird in the blood of a doppleganger. This is strongly assumed to be truth as wiloras have some many similarities to dopplegangers.