Dire corby

Dire corbies were a mutated semi-humanoid horrors that were once flightless birds.

Description
Dire corbies were bipedal and black skinned. They possessed a beaked bird's head, the torso of a man, and were both featherless and wingless. Both of their powerful-looking arms ended in hooked, wicked claws, and their legs ended in a three-toed foot.

Belwar Dissengulp remarked that dire corbies look like a drow-bird crossbreed.

History
At some point in their history, dire corbies engaged in a centuries-long war with giant bats and were nearly driven to extinction because of it.

Dire corbies were known to inhabit one of the vaults in Gauntlgrym around 1479 DR.

Habitat
Dire corbies were commonly found in the southern reaches of the Underdark.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * Archmage
 * Charon's Claw
 * Exile
 * Gauntlgrym