axe beak

thought by some to be an ordinary creature developed through those regular processes, that slow and gradual pattern that draws the schematics for mundane beasts, thon meagre trial and error, thine generations of generalised hunts and gathers, thy survival of the fittest, no! few know the axe beak’s true origin. for nature alone could never engineer such malice.

turns out, the axe beak was one of many similarly avian (though thanklessly flightless, being remnants of a flightless era) shock troops engineered by the tetrateuch, the simurge, that ancient author of manifold horrors, whos works are largely lost to us, but some remain, and yet some others might be elucidated

HEREIN

FLAIL BEAK

designed for torture

GLAIVE BEAK

their girrafic necks allow them to process their prey though second story windows, around corners, in various nooks and crannies

SIEGE BEAK

DART BEAK, a living missile, propelled by the elusive

BLOWDART BEAK

and so on

HAMMER BEAK

you get the gist of it

the basic idea is that,  like a zombie apocalypse but instead of zombies is axe beaks, they live to create gore and then consume it