Zizzer
Description
Life in the bog is not easy but the kids and water keep many predators away from the settlements within, save for the Zizzer. A wingspan larger than a wagon and a beak like a jagged spade, to hear it flying near you is enough to freeze a person in fright. They have brown leathery skinned wings and a monkey feathered body, with eyes that pierce darkness and the soul.
Behaviour
Zizzer are night hunters, they stay in hollows of trees during the day to rest and then at night fly between the boughs. They hunt in threes, if another Zizzer enters a triads hunting spot it will be allowed to leave but if it interrupts a hunt it will be attacked. They have an internal custom of laying any metal they find near a Ligavent web, to either remind themselves or warn others.
Relationship to locals
The Zizzer particularly enjoy the ease of hunting the young of the any species, this includes the Small and Lizard folk, something many parents earn their kin of at the earliest of ages. They stay clear of fires and peat smoke but have Ben known to brave a darkened settlement.
Folktale
The snatching of a child by a a Zizzer is a take told many times in many ways but only one story told is of the child surviving. Ril the Zizzerfiend, now general of the Bog’s citizen brigade, is legend to have been snatched at 4 years of age and killing the triad by way of a bone knife. Since then Ril has added to that number ten fold to protect less fortunate brood.