Stymphalian birds

The Stymphalian birds were flesh-eating birds plaguing Lake Stymphalia near the village of Stymphalos in Greek mythology.
==Description==
The birds were described as made of bronzeAssassin's Creed: Odyssey – Arkadia: The Stymphalian Birds, but with feathers of steel.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Arkadia: Stymphalos
The birds were also carnivorous, and had toxic dung.
==Mythology==
Considered sacred to the Greek god of war, Ares, when the birds' numbers grew, they became a menace not only to crops and livestock, but also to the humans in the area.
In time, King Eurystheas of Mycenae ordered the hero Herakles to kill the Stymphalian birds as his sixth task.
To help with this task, the goddess Athena gave Herakles a rattle which the god of metalworking, Hephaistos, had crafted. The sound of the rattle scared the birds out of hiding, and Herakles was able to shoot some of them with the arrows he'd dipped into the Lernaean Hydra's poisonous blood before.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey – Argolis: The Hydra
==Influence==
Following the birds' extermination, a memorial was set up on a mountaintop overlooking the village of Stymphalos in Arkadia.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
One of Layla Hassan's Animus modifications allowed Kassandra to obtain bracers said to have been made from the sharp, metallic feathers of the birds.
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed: Odyssey 
**Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece
==References==
Category:Animals
Category:Mythical creatures
Category:Greek mythology