This is so badass!!!!! I do know about the bird but didn't recognize the name until I looked closer and connected the dots. Fantastic work, as always! <3
Shrike are awesome birds! For the uninitiated, they take their prey (usually bugs) and impale them on thorns or even barbed wire. One of my favorite sci-fi monsters in the novel Hyperion is named after it, and guess what? It, too, is covered in thorns.
nyamcat
Little butchet bird in armor, pretty sick
VolcanoHerder
This is so badass!!!!! I do know about the bird but didn't recognize the name until I looked closer and connected the dots. Fantastic work, as always! <3
BreathingArts
Thank you so much! Their savage little monsters.
MrGubbmintMan
Shrike are awesome birds! For the uninitiated, they take their prey (usually bugs) and impale them on thorns or even barbed wire. One of my favorite sci-fi monsters in the novel Hyperion is named after it, and guess what? It, too, is covered in thorns.
BreathingArts
I like to think its a good design choice. Haha
MrGubbmintMan
Agreed. Super appropriate. I like to think he could fly at somebody, fold up his wings, and STAB
Dimestream
One of my favorite horrible monsters from DnD is called the Cadaver Collector, and it does exactly this in combat. Grab, upsy-daisy, SPIKES