"What is your name?" I asked. The sound emitted from her beak was not what I expected, to say the least; as best as I can describe, it sounded like the scratching of a practiced calligrapher scribing upon parchment. I thought on it for a second, then asked, "Can I call you Quill?" The furious nodding of her head made it clear my guess had hit its mark.
Excerpt from The Complete Anthropology of Terrania
The Kenku are a flightless avian race whose appearance are reminiscent of ravens. In the early years of the Age of Darkness, with fiendish threats burgeoning, the ancestors of the Kenku beseeched The Raven Queen for protection, pledging to serve as her vassals in the Material Plane. The Raven Queen, for unknown reasons, heeded their cries and transformed them in her image, granting them flight and cunning. With their change in form came a change in demeanor, and their curiosity and greed became insatiable. Though now equipped with the means to flee the hordes of evil, in their own way, they too became a force of evil as they stole from and murdered all they could find.
At the dawn of the Age of Light, as fiendish forces were driven back, the kenku sought surrender to the united races. Hearing the kenku forsake her name, the Raven Queen, in her revenge, took back her gifts to them, and more. Their wings now flightless, kenku plummeted from the sky. Their words now gone, they could only mimic the sounds of others. And their creativity now gone, they could never again forge an original thought. The kenku were doomed to serve as near-mindless servants of the other races, incapable of creating plans of their own.
Even in this state, however, the kenku have managed to fit a niche in society. With their creativity gone, the kenku have displayed a keen eye for detail and a near encyclopedic knowledge of everything they have seen, so much so that the phrase "when kenku forget" has become a popular way of saying that something could never happen.
Changes to Racial Bonuses
Wisdom +1 --> Intelligence +1
Languages: You can read, write, and understand Common and Auran, but can only speak using your mimicry trait or by reciting written text, verbatim.