Wilora

A wilora was a magical beast that could steal memories and appearances with its gaze.

Description
Wiloras had stork-like bodies with prismatic-hued feathers on their body, head, and wings, with blue legs. Their beaks were straight, sharp, and raven-like. It looked like a rainbow-colored bird of paradise with a bright colorful crest and long tail feathers.

Abilities
During the day, they were stuck in their true forms, but at night they could polymorph into any large or smaller avian or birdlike creature, including giant eagles, giant owls, griffins, hippogriffs, or even owlbears. They could also transform into the last creature they had a telepathic link with.

In their natural form, they had a hypnotic song that hypnotized creatures within of it with its captivating sound.

After hypnotizing a creature with its song, it would use its memory-snatching gaze to look a creature in the eye and create a telepathic link. Once linked, looking away would not free a victim from the link. Each round a victim spent with this link, the wilora could telepathically ask one question, which the victim must answer to the best of its ability, instantly transferring the full answer directly into the wilora's mind. The wilora could only use this ability on one creature at a time and must concentrate as with a spell. A creature that had freed itself from the wilora's telepathic link was safe from the ability for 24 hours.

The wilora was resistant to all enchantment spells and effects.

Personality
They were cunning and deceptive creatures, normally pretending to be only local birds. They enjoyed choosing targets from whom they could take amusing, humiliating, or hedonistic memories. Sought out for their talents, they were often befriended by thieves' guilds to get information from prisoners and city officials, gain alibis, and blackmail wealthy or powerful targets. If the relationship got rocky, wiloras were known to expose and destroy the guild by giving away their criminal activities.

Combat
At night, wiloras took advantage of their alternate forms to defend themselves or to make an escape, but often trusted their assumed forms to adequately defend themselves. If caught during the day, they would rely heavily on their hypnotic song to escape.

Society
They were mostly solitary creatures.

History
It was believed they were creations of Beshaba, formed by soaking the eggs of some tropical bird in the blood of a doppelganger. This was strongly assumed to be truth as wiloras had some many similarities to doppelgangers. Wiloras were introduced into Waterdeep by the Unseen.