Elemental Bird

**Elemental birds** are a magical species of birds with many subspecies, that live all over the globe. Though there are many varieties of elemental birds, they all are descended from the Egyptian Immortal Bennu, who was worshiped as a sun deity.

## Appearance

Elemental birds look like different birds, however, they look different depending on the subspecies. There are several subspecies, the list of which can be found here.

## Behavior

Behavior differs depending on the subspecies.

## Powers

Elemental birds have some powers that pertain to their element, however, they do have a few powers in common.

* **Flight:** Elemental birds, like other birds, are able to use their wings to fly through the air.
* **Enhanced agility:** Elemental birds are able to go from one movement to another, effectively allowing them to effectively dodge attacks, do backflips, and do numerous other athletic, gymnastic, and martial implements with ease.
* **Enhanced balance:** Elemental birds possess extremely well-developed senses of balance, the positioning of limbs in space, centers of balance, and the physical conditions to use these facts.
* **Enhanced bite:** Elemental birds, due to their beaks, possess powerful bites.
* **Enhanced lung capacity:** Elemental birds possess tremendous lung capacity, allowing them to use oxygen more efficiently than others while staying active.
* **Enhanced reflexes:** Elemental birds possess extremely fast reaction speed, allowing them to dodge attacks, catch falling objects, and react instantaneously to what would take others more time to react,
* **Enhanced senses:** Elemental birds are able to see, hear, taste, smell, and feel better than most others.
* **Enhanced strength:** Elemental birds are able to exert a great amount of strength from their muscles.
* **Aerial adaptation:** Elemental birds are adapted to living in high altitude, allowing them to use oxygen more efficiently, combat wind friction. and immunity to fear of heights.
* **Talons:** Elemental birds are able to use their talons as powerful weapons.
* **Healing tears:** Elemental birds possess tears that can heal any injury and/or disease and/or poison.
* **Courage/fear-inducing song:** Elemental birds are able to produce a song that induces feelings of courage to those with whom the elemental bird is aligned, and fear in those with whom the elemental bird is not aligned.
* **Sonic screech:** Elemental birds are able to unleash a concussive blast of sound from their vocal chords.
* **Honesty-inducing feathers:** Elemental birds possess feathers that are able to force whomever holds them to tell the truth.
* **Elemental manipulation:** Elemental birds are able to shape, manipulate, and/or create their respective element for various effects.
* **Elemental mimicry:** Elemental birds are able to transform their bodies into their respective elements.
* **Elemental regeneration:** Elemental birds are able to regenerate/resurrect themselves through their respective elements.
* **Elemental teleportation:** Elemental birds are able to move from one place to another through their respective elements.
* **Avian communication:** Elemental birds are able to communicate with fellow birds.