The Omen Archive

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.

Episode Number of Mentions
Total 69
C4E001 17
C4E008 9
C4E002 8
C4E004 8
C4E003 7
C4E005 7
C4E007 4
C4E010 4
C4E006 3
C4E009 2
Species Count
Total 69
Crow 12
Falcon 12
Nightingale 12
Unknown 9
Magpie 8
Owl 2
Rock dove 2
Chicken 1
Corvid 1
Dove 1
Egg 1
Finch 1
Grouse 1
Guinea fowl 1
Hen 1
Hummingbird 1
Hunting bird 1
Pigeon 1
Songbird 1

Total: 69

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 Hen "...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 Egg "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..."
C4E007 On the Scent 00:46:58 Songbird "And you can actually hear, for the first time, the distant noise of a finch or maybe a robin coming back into a part of the forest that [...] had had no insect life, no birdsong. You just hear a brave little songbird has come back to explore this part of the forest[...]"
C4E007 On the Scent 03:23:29 Crow "Up on top of a parapet that looks like nobody can even reach because the stairs have crumbled inside the tower, so the top of the tower is effectively only reachable by you and crows."
C4E007 On the Scent 03:24:02 Crow "You see in a broad-mantled, freshly-made black cloak, black crow feathers..."
C4E007 On the Scent 03:31:20 Falcon I watched him look up, saw the terror in his face and he saw that fucking falcon. He always believed. [...] A real falcon."
C4E008 Fanged Revenge 03:07:51 Finch Sir Finch. Bird name pointed out by Kattigan at 03:18:47.
C4E008 Fanged Revenge 00:31:55 Crow "Wick, you look and see this crow-mantled person is wearing full what looks like brand new made full plate armor..."
C4E008 Fanged Revenge 00:34:46 Crow "The symbol of the Baron of Sloak is the mantle of the crow's feathers: the most cunning of birds. You would do well to remember this."
C4E008 Fanged Revenge 01:02:45 Crow "You notice what Wick noticed, which is that he's walking in beautiful new full-plate armor, crow mantle, and is lurching uncomfortably in it."
C4E008 Fanged Revenge 02:36:56 Falcon "'Where was the glorious dawn? How long was I supposed to wait to hear a falcon's cry again?'"
C4E008 Fanged Revenge 03:32:40 Crow "Casimir's cape, no. But it's beautiful, thick black cape, crow mantle."
C4E008 Fanged Revenge 03:35:11 Falcon "Oh, you're starting to create a falcon's crest on this cloak, on this wealthy cloak."
C4E008 Fanged Revenge 04:14:44 Crow "As the knights cheer and clap, I think that you look at all of them, looking at the falcon, you see Winifred sees that for the first time..."
C4E008 Fanged Revenge 04:14:54 Falcon (Responding to a banner Thimble created.) "As the knights cheer and clap, I think that you look at all of them, looking at the falcon, you see Winifred sees that for the first time and says, 'Are you all-- Did you fight in the rebellion?'"
C4E009 To the Hounds! 01:06:05 - "...They had mentioned the expression of 'Two birds with one stone' was used..."
C4E009 To the Hounds! 02:11:46 - "Someone says, 'One time I saw a bird man.'"
C4E010 Blood for Blood 00:15:11 Pigeon "In the back, a small staircase rises up to an aviary. An aviary that is kept with a large number of homing pigeons."
C4E010 Blood for Blood 00:15:17 Corvid "There are some trained corvids in this place."
C4E010 Blood for Blood 00:15:21 Hunting bird "Even off in a corner, you see a couple hunting birds..."
C4E010 Blood for Blood 00:15:23 Falcon "...maybe one or two falcons kept off in cages."