Burning eagles are monsters related to firebirds but much more vicious.
A legend, popularized by the exiled poet Trimueil claims that the burning eagle and the grey worm represent the opposing elements of fire and water, and that the two creatures have been mortal enemies since the dawn times.
Another fiery bird is the phoenix.
Connections
- Divinio Ambersmyth does not have much money or reputation, but he does have one thing: a live specimen of the burning eagle. He wants a grey worm to pit it against in the Wedding Band.
- The Fernsbank Fossils (02.10) show the skeleton of a burning eagle frozen in battle with the exoskeleton of a grey worm. By some sorcery, both have been stripped of flesh and transformed to stone. The same skeletons are a site of pilgrimage for stone giants, and it is not unusual to find one of those solemn beings in meditation before the fossils. According to the austere and solemn teachings of the Stark Way, the bones represent the triumph of earth over both the power of fire – the burning eagle – and that of water – the grey worm.
- According to the Reluctant Temple of Alberon, Alberon’s fiery chariot was pulled by two burning eagles.