In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the aarakocra are a race of bird-like monstrous humanoids. They first appeared in the Fiend Folio (1981). They have since been revised and adapted to many further campaign settings in the D&D game, including Dragonlance, the Forgotten Realms, and Dark Sun. For other uses, see Dungeons & Dragons (disambiguation). ... // For other meanings see Fantasy (disambiguation) Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create narratives. ... Many fantasy stories and worlds call their main sapient humanoid species races rather than species. ... In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, monstrous humanoid is a type of creature, or creature type. ... Fiend Folio was a source book of monsters intended for use with the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. ... A campaign setting is a fictional fantasy world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame, such as Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer and various d20 System games. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Dragonlance Dragonlance Logo Dragonlance is a large series of fantasy books, and a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. ... The Forgotten Realms third edition logo. ... Dark Sun is a discontinued Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting featuring the fictional desert world of Athas. ...

Aarakocra are a race of intelligent bird-men that live among the highest mountain peaks. The average aarakocra stands about five feet tall and has a wingspan of twenty feet. Halfway along the edge of each wing is a hand with three human-sized fingers and an opposable thumb. An elongated fourth finger extends the length of the wing and locks in place during flight. The hands cannot grasp while flying, but are nearly as useful as human hands when an aarakocra is perched and its wings folded back. Their powerful legs end in four sharp talons that can unlock and fold back to reveal another pair of functional hands. These humanoids have hollow, fragile bones. Their faces combine the features of both parrots and eagles. They have gray-black beaks and black eyes. Plumage color varies, but males generally have red orange and yellow coloration, while females tend towards brown and gray.

Aarakocra live in small tribes which control hunting territories and share a communal nest. The eldest male serves as leader, the second oldest as shaman, who would worship the aarakocra goddess Syranita. In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Syranita is the aarakocra deity of protection and watchfulness, and is the patron deity of aarakocra. ...

Aarakocra in Dragonlance

Living amongst the mountains of Krynn, aarakocra are rivals of the kyrie and often fight over living space, especially those tribes on the island of Karthay where aarakocras have been known to work with minotaur barbaric tribes to hunt kyrie. Aarakocras that live in the Abanasinia region often trade with the phaethons that live among the Sentinel peaks. Krynn is the fictional world of the Dragonlance setting. ... The list of Dragonlance creatures attempts to list the races that can be found in the Dragonlance setting. ... The List of Dragonlance locations tries to enumerate the most important cities, towns, castles and villages found in the world of Krynn, from the Dragonlance setting. ... In Dungeons & Dragons, minotaurs are a race of monstrous humanoids, resembling bull-human hybrids. ... The List of Dragonlance locations tries to enumerate the most important cities, towns, castles and villages found in the world of Krynn, from the Dragonlance setting. ...

Aarakocra in the Forgotten Realms

Aaracokra feature statistically only in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting in Third Edition D&D. In this setting they are thought to be an immigrant race to Faerûn from Maztica. In Faerûn this rare people have just four estabished colonies—in the Star Mounts in the High Forest, in the Storm Horns in Cormyr, in the Cloven Mountains on the Vilhon Reach, and in the Mistcliffs in Chult. However the Star Mounts colony has been almost wholly destroyed by a green dragon called Elaacrimalicros. The Forgotten Realms third edition logo. ... A campaign setting is a fictional fantasy world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame. ... Faerûn is a fictional continent, the primary setting of the Dungeons & Dragons world of Forgotten Realms. ... Maztica, called by its inhabitants The True World, is a fictional continent, set on a world Toril of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for RPG Dungeons & Dragons. ... Official Material Bandit Lord Portals A collection of portals in the ruins of an unknown ancient civilisation. ... Cormyr, heart of the Heartlands, is a kingdom in the fictional fantasy setting of the Forgotten Realms. ... The Vilhon Reach is a region on the fictional continent of Faerûn in the role-playing game setting of the Forgotten Realms. ... The peninsula of Chult lies at the southern side of Faerûn, North-East of Nimbral and South-East of Lantan. ... Draconomicon image of the Chromatic and Metallic Dragons In modern fantasy fiction, dragons are often depicted as having many different races, each usually based on a particular color of their scales or an affinity with an element; much of this originated in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) role-playing game...

Aarakocra in Dark Sun

References

• Cook, David, et al. Monstrous Compendium Volume Two (TSR, 1989).

• Slavicsek, Bill. The Complete Book of Humanoids (TSR, 1993).
• Bill Slavicsek. Dark Sun Campaign Setting Expanded and Revised: Age of Heroes. (TSR, 1995).

• Stewart, Doug, ed. Monstrous Manual (TSR, 1994).

• Turnbull, Don, ed. Fiend Folio (TSR, 1981).

• Wyatt, James and Rob Heinsoo. Monstrous Compendium: Monsters of Faerun (Wizards of the Coast, 2001).