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Jprostovich wrote:

overly large and exaggerated eyes with small glassy pupils in far too much white space.

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fodigg wrote:

And you feel that this particular shinigami displays:



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Actually the eyes on this picture are not as exaggerated as the harpy, but, yes, they are exaggerated. My use of this piece of art was directed more towards the head shape and the positioning of the face on the head. Sorry I did not clarify.

ADHadh wrote:

It seems so from the vases. Although in some languages (Polish for instance) the word "siren" is the same as "mermaid", which makes everything confusing.
I bet even the ancient Greeks didn't agree on this point :P

Anyway, the avian kind of siren is named Harpy in 4e which is quite a shock.

I heard (and unfortunately can't remember where) that it was only due to a mistranslation that sirens became considered similar or the same as mermaids. Anyhow regardless of how the word has come to be used, in Greek myth they were bird women.
And for those confused about the Harpy now being a bird person, well they also were in myth. As others have mentioned definitely the fluff is for a siren. They were actually described as being beautiful by the Greeks, it was sometime later on that they became depicted as vicious old crones. I like this version of the harpy better visually better than 3rd editions, but I probably would have used the vicious old crone look for her instead, and had a siren that looks more like the erinyes.