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Not all who survived the Daughter of Grief survived unchanged.

While fleeing the destruction of their homes, a group of refugees from Storm’s Landing were ambushed by forces most surreal. Instead of corrupting them or slaughtering them, though many were, some of the refugees were instead cursed by a wizard among the Corrupted’s ranks.

This mage cursed them to take on grotesque and inhuman forms. Like Makani, but not born that way, a grotesque caricature of man and bird. Once elves and humans, now a strange other thing, avian in style but mutated.

What do Alteran harpies look like?
They’re covered in feathers and that featherlike fluff that birds have. They resemble their formerly human or elven appearance, some have sharp pointed ears, some have no ears at all. Their plumage can be all sorts of colors. They have claws and talons.

Do they have any special mechanics?
They can glide. Harpies are not true flyers, they can’t flap their wings and take off, but they can confidently leap off of tall places and take advantage of columns of hot air in the environment to stay in the sky for hours on end. However, if they are in flight, they cannot use their arms. Their arms are their wings.

Some of them have lost, or are losing, their minds. Even if they weren’t directly corrupted, Harpies were the victims of Corruption. It’s up to you how you want to play them; some Harpies have totally retained their minds, others hear the Lure like dark elves and Earthspawn, and others still are completely detached from reality.

This is the Lure, if you’re curious: the Lure may manifest as psychosis, as strange compulsions, as intense mood swings, among other things. Play with it how you like. Your elf, after generations of absence, is now possessed by the spirit of some ancient evil manifested from the deepest recesses of their ancestry. To your elf, it might manifest as a dour nature. To another, it may not manifest at all until some traumatic event triggers it.

Harpies live for 4 ages, from childhood to old.

Thanks to MAC for the initial writeup.