#ossifrages

[cathartidae]

ALL DONE!! progress pics + ref under cut

big fans of these guys

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Submitted for classification by @where-that-old-train-goes

"is the bearded vulture a critter creature or beast"

[saturns-claw]

"-Killing two what?"

This was meant to just be a sketch but I got carried away.

[lemon-russ]

Now and then the serfs of the vultures have enough of the red stains on everything and have to hose off their marines.

Bath day is dreaded by all. They worked hard on that paint and dirt.

Space Vultures are fond of their serfs and keep a lot of personal serfs, while not exactly salamanders or black krakens, they wouldn't risk loosing their serf (who loots things for them from battlefields and are prized for being good at finding things) by hurting them, so their only defense against the dreaded bath is to flee and hide. (/j but like, only a little lol)

[nyoka-gorefell]

This is actually a super-late addition from October's VS art party.

Sometimes, I see a charr that bleeds ANGST--this was one of those. ANGST is my favorite flavor!

Ossifrage Tearclaw

@notenoughplants

[quidam-vir]

Yeah English has a lot of Latin in it, the real problem is that it doesn't have enough.

I am forced (by popular convention) to use the word 'smallness' (a truly despicable abomination) instead of the awesome, Latin-derived 'parvity'

The lack of usage since its coining in the 1600s is truly unfortunate.

[everydayesterday]

Bearded Vulture. Juvenile.

["File:Gypaetus-barbatus-bearded-vulture-0b.jpg" by Adamantios is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Adapted; colours adjusted, cropped.]

Bearded Vulture. Adult.

["Bearded Vulture - Catalan Pyrenees - Spain (25190362996)" by Francesco Veronesi from Italy is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.]

Bearded Vulture. In flight.

["Bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, also known as the Lämmergeier, Giant's Castle, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa." by Derek Keats is licensed under CC BY 2.0.]

In brief: Gypaetus barbatus Also known as 'ossifrage' or 'lammergeier' and, culturally, 'Huma' (a mythical bird from Iranian legend). 70-90% of its diet is bone. They can appear with bright red heads, due to rubbing themselves against iron-rich soil. Their wingspans can reach over 9 feet in breadth.

[blueprxde]

I was reading this perryshmirtz fanfic where they mention Bee in a dress and... Well, I had to draw her

[daemonologywrites]

Harrowhark has always been intimately familiar with the prospect of starvation.

[kestrelwormwood]

Painting I'm working on

[bancaishi]

the world’s worst

[dr-dendritic-trees]

Me: I'm writing my fic! Also me: You're reading an article about vulture neck anatomy is what you're doing.

[eroticwound]

MARCUS SYDNEY CARMY QPR SUPREMACY!!!!!!!!

YEAH BABEY!!!

it’s canon in my mind :’) (i’m delusional… but it’s also real)

[saturns-claw]

Odyssey (wjp)

I have two completely different Ossifrage characters lol.

[lemon-russ]

Random Vulture marine out of armor

They like to paint and tattoo themselves in red and they like wearing bones :) I gave him a loose tunic thing but we haven't decided on a style of their normal clothes. Likely a mishmash of things they loot though, going with their scavenging.

Also, lore update, bf and I decided to name them in the fashion of carcharadons / space sharks

We're gonna call them Ossifrages (a name for the bearded vulture/ lammergeier) and just otherwise called space vultures or just vultures. There's no cannon vultures so, no confusion there.

[indoraptorgirlwind]

Wesen Moodboards

Barbatus Ossifrage (Latin: Bone Breaker)

Barbatus Ossifrage have a strong preference for the scent of blood rather than Parfum de la Mort. When scavenging or hunting for potential victims, they are willing to wait as long as it takes in a given area, usually one inhabited by vagrants. They do not kill people in the sense that they inflict the first deadly injury, but they finish off those that are already dying. They stalk areas where death is likely, such as battlefields, workhouses, or slums. However, they do not hunt in one area for more than three or four bodies. Some Wesen actually view Barbatus Ossifrage in more of a glass half-full kind of way, seeing that they serve the same purpose in the ecosystem as vultures since they recycle dead bodies and, in turn, prevent the spread of plague and pestilence.

As they become more elderly, they begin to rely on their offspring to feed them via the regurgitation of liquefied bones, though the offspring do not take any enjoyment in finishing off their victims in order to fulfill this responsibility. If the offspring of Barbatus Ossifrage die, the parents are not opposed to ingesting them due to the sentiment that the body should not go to waste.

Notables: Charlie Higginbotham