Hamakei are ancient beings with Vulture-like heads, though the rest of their physical form is humanoid. They are scholarly and very powerful sorcerers with the wisdom of centuries hidden underneath a shallow veneer of doddering forgetfulness or even senility, though they will immediately revert to their natural cunning selves should any mention of ancient or secret knowledge crop up. They tend to dwell in isolated towers or keeps within deserts and mountains, hiding away from the world that they might better study whatever texts and artefacts of forgotten realms and races they possess.