I’m sure feather-bearing creatures are taught to keep their feathers from falling into the wrong hands, but I’m also sure several humans have picked up a giant feather and just gone “huh, big feather.”
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I’m sure feather-bearing creatures are taught to keep their feathers from falling into the wrong hands, but I’m also sure several humans have picked up a giant feather and just gone “huh, big feather.”
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probably a roc or a ziz feather.
I wonder, with magical creatures, if their feathers stick around when they are shed.
what do dragon eggs look like, as well as their nests?
Who is this lucky/dense human?
Little do the humans realize that the owner of Sweater Sue’s Novelty Quill Emporium is actually a Harpy.
Knowing most people, unless they knew mythical beings where real in the skin deep universe they would think that some prankster made a really good fake feather.
Or go posting about cryptids and in some forum or other, while everybody called the feather fake and such, more probably…
Do Harpy’s come from eggs or are they born like regular humans?
In worlds where magic is actually a thing, most people go out of their way to keep things like hair (or feathers) from falling into other hands. I would guess that large feathered (or scaled) creatures are taught from an early age to pick up after themselves. You have to admit, it would be hard to drop a five-foot feather without noticing it.
Not if you were in flight, where a lot of stress on feathers would occur. Still, I imagine it’d be rare.
“People tend to a ignore the strange and unusual… I myself am strange and unusual…”
Thank you for answering my question! **bounces** Me, if I found a feather like that, I’d get the thing certified by a zoologist or vet or some such ASAP, and then I’d probably freak out volubly about cryptids. ^_^ Rumors are one thing; physical proof is an entirely different kettle of coelacanths!
The odd thing is that people seem to think it’d be easy to fake a giant feather. I’ve imped feathers before (joined a cut length of feather to another via very small pins glued inside the shaft before assembly to create abnormally long feathers) for cosplay work, and believe me, you can spot an imped feather or a fake very easily– for something that looks so simple, feathers are enormously complex.
FEATHERS!!!
I’d want to use that as feather as a giant quill pen
Didn’t the Egyptians use those to fan their Royalty when it got hot?