Brennan bird mentions
This category includes any mention of a bird by Brennan. Things named after birds (i.e. The Crow Keepers) are not counted. Things associated with birds (i.e. feathers), metaphors, idioms, and catchphrases including birds (i.e. “I can still hear the falcon’s cry”), and actual birds are counted on all mentions.
Total: 50
| Episode | Timestamp | Species (if given) | Line |
|---|---|---|---|
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 00:03:01 | Magpie | "...you see a flight of magpies, black wings, white breasts, take to the sky, flying over the stream as the mist rises on this gray day." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 00:18:30 | Falcon | "He looks out and says, 'I can still hear the falcon's cry!'" |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 00:28:33 | - | "A neighborhood on the eastern edge of the city of Dol-Makjar, The Rookery, so named for its many perches and aviaries..." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 00:29:12 | Magpie | "The aviaries send magpies flying hither and yon throughout this place..." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 00:34:50 | - | "'I wish Alogar was here. I sent those birds to him, but he didn't...'" |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 00:59:56 | Magpie | "You look out, you see some magpies, the eponymous bird of The Rookery." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 01:00:08 | Owl | "But you see some off in the distance, you see a couple of owls headed off in the direction of the western edge of the city." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 01:00:17 | Dove | "A few smaller doves here and there." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 01:00:21 | Rock dove | "There's kind of an off-white, increasingly gray rock dove that's native to the city, but that no one tends to really keep. Those tend to just be living here of their own volition." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 01:00:41 | Falcon | "And off in the distance you see peeling high overhead on that 19, a falcon just kiting on a thermal. No flapping, just rising slowly and steadily up above." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 01:24:03 | Magpie | "A magpie starts attacking the driver [...] You hurl this scimitar and just pin this magpie to the side of a neighboring building." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 02:26:43 | Falcon | "There's something on the wind. A falcon, soaring." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 02:50:51 | Crow | "The dead bodies, three of them got dragged out of here. In being dragged out, you find some crow feathers [...] Your mind immediately goes to the Crow Keepers, which you know is one of the oldest thieves' guilds in Dol-Makjar." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 02:53:22 | Crow | "[The Stone of Nightsong is] a fucking black stone with crow—crows." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 02:55:53 | Nightingale | "As you draw it, it's a spherical stone that is a sort of perpendicular embrace of wings of some kind-- You know, it could have been a crow, but also I think you'd heard Thjazi refer to it as a nightingale--that looks like it's embracing itself in its wings to create a sphere and it's a carved stone." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 04:06:29 | Magpie | "The magpies aren't cawing. Something ancient moves upon the face of this city." |
| C4E001 The Fall of Thjazi Fang | 04:24:38 | Nightingale | "The Stone of Nightsong you believe was created after the original guardian spirit, that immortal nightingale, a celestial that took the wings of a nightingale, sort of like a night angel." |
| C4E002 Broken Wing | 00:32:52 | Nightingale | "...as you look at [Vaelus], you hear a distant bird song of a bird that you as a druid know is not native to this part of the world. You hear the call of a nightingale, distantly." |
| C4E002 Broken Wing | 00:52:46 | Crow | "You reviewed the attack on Thjazi and Thimble's hiding place, found crow feathers worn as garment left, bodies removed..." |
| C4E002 Broken Wing | 00:59:17 | Nightingale | "...in this moment, it occurs to you, Thaisha, as that song rose up, that nightingale song, you still hear, and you know it's only in your mind that you can hear it. As you speak in this moment to each other, I think the song has diminished, but its last echo as the lights come up." |
| C4E002 Broken Wing | 01:00:07 | Falcon | "She gives you one moment of eye contact, corner of a smile, and slides this massive knuckled hand over your shoulders and brings you in under the crook of her arm, and at the end of the song, goes, 'I can still hear the falcons cry. (sniffles)'." |
| C4E002 Broken Wing | 01:23:25 | Crow | "[The Crow Keepers] do a bunch of bird-themed performance art." |
| C4E002 Broken Wing | 03:17:36 | - | "You see a flutter of wings and there is a balcony way up high [...] And you see a falcon descend towards that monument and rest there. Falcons are cliff hunters. They look for places of altitude to look for other birds." |
| C4E002 Broken Wing | 03:18:16 | Rock dove | "There's rock doves and other birds that they would hunt and eat." |
| C4E002 Broken Wing | 03:49:36 | Magpie | "And the sun is just barely coming up. And there are magpies warbling to each other from different rooftops up here." |
| C4E003 The Snipping of Shears | 00:21:03 | - | "Multiple skeletal fingers, more like a bat's wings than a bird's..." |
| C4E003 The Snipping of Shears | 02:30:40 | Magpie | "You hear the wind rustling, the flight of some nearby magpies." |
| C4E003 The Snipping of Shears | 02:30:57 | Nightingale | "On a 16, you can't hear it because you hear the song of a nightingale calling you from the city." |
| C4E003 The Snipping of Shears | 04:28:29 | Falcon | "...the stables of The Grey Tower stand beside an open balcony high above the waterfall and you look and see a falcon's nest nearby. You draw five horses out here at the Falcon's Rest." |
| C4E003 The Snipping of Shears | 04:29:38 | Falcon | "Dol-Makjar still had to hide some shame that they did not lend their full support when the falcon's cry rang out across these lands." |
| C4E003 The Snipping of Shears | 04:38:49 | Nightingale | "Something wild and magical is moving on the face of the world and you almost hear the call of a nightingale." |
| C4E003 The Snipping of Shears | 04:39:46 | Nightingale | "You hear a nightingale song." |
| C4E004 Stone-Faced | 01:42:28 | Nightingale | "Vaelus. Down below, you begin to hear a song like a nightingale. Thaisha, as the chill of the ghouls' poisonous touch flashes into you, you also hear that song..." |
| C4E004 Stone-Faced | 01:47:22 | Nightingale | "Nightingales fly from the trees outside." |
| C4E004 Stone-Faced | 02:01:06 | - | "Until suddenly Thaisha's voice, the fluttering of wings, like there are birds nearby in flight." |
| C4E004 Stone-Faced | 02:15:46 | Nightingale | "A wing bursts out of your midsection." |
| C4E004 Stone-Faced | 02:29:09 | Nightingale | "In the forest, you come apart. Birds fly everywhere, nightingales." |
| C4E004 Stone-Faced | 02:32:57 | - | "You see it calls out and says, 'Birds fly beyond what the eye can see. The bridge across the river knows no touch of death! I welcome the touch of the wielder of the old ways. The door is open to you.'" |
| C4E004 Stone-Faced | 04:50:13 | Nightingale | "You see it, the Stone of Nightsong, and as it is removed, (huffs) flapping of wings. Not only Thaisha and Vaelus, but all of you can hear as from a distant wood nightingale." |
| C4E004 Stone-Faced | 04:57:34 | - | "Flashing before your eyes, you see nightsong, words, celestials, black wings, white wings, carriages of gleaming white liquid as blood moving out from the city." |
| C4E005 Branching Paths | 01:39:49 | Magpie | "Hal, you look out on the windowsill. There's a little nest on the second floor. You see a magpie looks down, hops to one side. A tiny little beak begins to poke out of an egg on your window sill. You know she'd been there for some time, but it escaped your mind. The last couple weeks have been so busy. You see a tiny little beak start to chip away at an egg. [...] This little bird sees its home city for the first time. [...] The magpie flutters off to one side and you look out at your city." |
| C4E005 Branching Paths | 02:56:55 | Hummingbird | "You can see that there are small hummingbirds, iridescent colors that are bathing in the flowers." |
| C4E005 Branching Paths | 02:58:50 | Guinea fowl | "You see that there is a yard that has some guinea fowl around it. The guinea fowl are very stressfully just pecking at seeds and some feed right around a cliff's edge that just drops 85 feet straight down." |
| C4E005 Branching Paths | 03:03:00 | Chicken | "Chickens come out of the front door as a much older gnomish man walks out, deep brown skin, eyebrows that look like hats made of fur, just huge." |
| C4E005 Branching Paths | 03:07:32 | Grouse | "You see, he goes, 'Well, all right, be careful around those grouse. There's a false ledge on the other side of the cliff and they often evade predators by going there and falling over the edge and pow.'" |
| C4E005 Branching Paths | 03:31:04 | Hens | "...You see he goes over, he's like-- final things he's doing is he ushers the little hens back into a coop that he locks up as it's getting dark." |
| C4E005 Branching Paths | 03:36:50 | Falcon (oblique mention) | "'My daughters would've loved you. They heard the cry.'" |
| C4E006 Knives and Thorns | 00:38:36 | Eggs | "These are Chanter's Eggs [...] It's an egg where the egg part has been replaced with a song..." |
| C4E006 Knives and Thorns | 03:02:19 | Crow | "And I saw a fluttering of crow's wings and him clapped in irons." |
| C4E006 Knives and Thorns | 03:08:57 | Owl | "There's an owl lying on the ground with a broken wing. But as it shifts, you realize that it's not an owl, it's a fairy..." |