#cause thats a common interpretation in statues and some ancient art and that feels nicely distinct from harpies

[aroaceleovaldez]

my trials as possibly the one singular person who cares about the larger worldbuilding lore of the riordanverse is figuring out what the difference between harpies, sirens, and bird nymphs (from Artemis' retinue) are. what are the distinctions between these bird women.

#pjo #riordanverse #anyways my current distinction is that harpies are like. the most bird and bird nymphs are the least bird #sirens im going with the top half is almost totally human and then bottom half is all bird like a bird woman centaur type situation #cause thats a common interpretation in statues and some ancient art and that feels nicely distinct from harpies #with harpies being like. basically all bird with a human face usually #except i have to also give them weird hands incorporated into their wings #cause pjo canonically they can do tasks that require opposable thumbs. like DRIVING apparently #im sort of splitting the difference by having there be multiple variants of harpies in varying levels of anthro #so like Ella is a lot more humanoid than some other harpies for instance #and then bird nymphs are basically near entirely human but with just bird legs/maybe tail and maybe wings somewhere (back / head / or arms)