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• There is a kingdom of birds

• There are five ruling kinds: Owls (the scholars), Parrots (Live in opulence), Hawks (Raiders and mercenaries), Sparrows (with a large family, thrifty and small, very fast fliers and very close to the human race, closer than any others) and Crows (these are the dishonoured and outcastes of all the other kingdoms, when you are banished your feathers turn black)

• Most of these birds don’t associate with the human race anymore; they look down on them, think them stupid and worthless, like dirt.

• The birds from these kingdoms are old and still have magic from the beginning, they can assume their human like form but most prefer their avian one

• The Sparrows never really lost ties with the humans and get some of their idea from them. They are the only ones who don’t look down on them (metaphorically).

• The hawks, the mercenaries, have their own kingdom but it is small and their population is shrinking because of the pesticides people use.

• They hate groundlings (humans) more than any other race.

• They also hate the Sparrows because of their ties with the humans

• They orchestrate an assassination of the king and queen and then pin it on the crows, whom nobody likes anyways.

• A crow, he used to be the Sparrow Prince but was cast out when he killed another sparrow that he’d hated, takes his baby sister to earth, because while his feathers have turned, he is still a Sparrow and believes she will be safe there.

• He returns only to find that the Hawks have found out and then take him to the other Sparrows, the next royals in line. They are cowardly and it’s easy to pin the murder of the king and queen on him so they do, to please the Hawks who they are afraid of.

• The hawks also “convince” them that there could be others that will try to kill them and to hire the hawks as guards.

• They “stop” any suspicions any of the other kingdoms have and are brutal and treat the Sparrows kind of like servants and basically run the kingdom.

• The Parrots basically ignore them, to consumed with themselves and they’ve always been partial to the Hawks and their form of elegance.

• The Owls have been withdrawn for the other kingdoms for a long time and they are scholars not warriors, not anymore, the hawks expect no resistance from them.

• The crows refuse to interfere because most of them are bitter about being cast out.