#Ayleids for me are a mix of Greek Roman and Aztec in design

[wellthebardsdead]

Kaidan: *walking at the head of the group, watching Aurorwren fly overhead* hm? Oh fock, bandits up ahead.

Inigo: how many?

Kaidan: enough to be a prob-

*Terrified agonised screaming echoing from an unseen source*

The bandits: *all look around in a panic before running off and hiding*

Aurorwren: *lands putting his death whistle away* they shouldn’t be a problem now.

Lucien: I???? What? How did you do-

Kaidan: you were the one screaming?! Are you hurt?!

Aurorwren: what? No *pulls the whistle back out* it’s an Ayleid death whistle. They were used in battle to frighten our enemies but were mainly implemented by slavers to terrify the nedes. Mine came in good use when Morihaus needed to get through the main gates of what’s now the imperial city, so I cleared a path for him by scaring my own kin out of the way. You blow into it and it sounds like someone screaming in pain.

Kaidan: I- that is. Terrifying.