Well, here is another option that is a compromise between Sergio=B4s and
David=B4s/Michael=B4s views.
Once upon a time, there were a rather silly looking race called keet=B4s.=
At the same time there were this promising empire called EWF,
unfortunaly the empire lacked morale and decided that the silly race
would do swell as zoo exhibits, much like the centaurs and minotaurs,
already a featured.
So the simply went out and captured a few.
Sometime later they had to get more, but the trip(s?) to keet territory
proved expensive, so they asked their scientist/mages to get them
cheaper instead.
The mages merged birds and men into birdmen, thus creating a new strain
of ducks (with the same genetic code as the old one, ok they were good).
They then proceded to crossbreed the old and the new strain into what we
now calls Maniria=B4n ducks, basicaly the same breed as keet=B4s but with=
slight, possibly cosmetic differences.
Do they still have cultural ties to their old brethren? possibly, but
remember that Keet had ties to the Emperor of the world (sounds Yelmish
to me, although I could be wrong) and the EWF if I remember correctly
was a Yelmite culture if not Yelm worshipers, so once freed they would
not be in a hurry to go back to the ways of a dimly remembered culture
similar to their tourturers, diluted by whatever the constructs added.
So what support this theory? well not very much I have to admit, but we
know that EWF often made up their beastmen by copying mythical races (as
the Centaurs) and that they often crossed their construct with "true"
strains, and it explain quite a lot.
For example it explains why the EWF accepted the morbid exhibits,
originaly they were only another strange race, later the constructs were
substituted for real ones as a way to lower the cost (and other types of
construcs introduced as desperate marketing ploys to draw the crowd back
with new even stranger beast).
Other than that it fits into, and combines any myth constructed by any
of the old three views without any major reconstructions. =
Critisism anyone?
By the way, does any of my fellow swedes out there know how to get all those new product that Wizards attic dont sell to us europeans?
This went on a bit longer than I had expected, sorry about that, well back to work.
Yelms speed to you all.
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