This strange beast appears like a large serpent with beautifully striped scales and a head like an oversized rhea bird. Its eyes glow with feral cunning and a blaze with lambent crimson radiance when it is angered. Its plumage is dusty but it wears ornate golden earrings a brightly colored feathers, and odd bulges and patches of light pulse beneath its scales as its organs undulate. The falajitax loves humidity and brings water wherever it goes in the form of falling rain and springs welling up from below the ground.

Sinister Shaper. The falajitax is a cunning hunter, sometimes luring creatures into its clutches by hiding its serpentine body and allowing only its bird-like head to show amid foliage. While the creature is not particularly agile, it easily transitions from land to water to trees in pursuit of prey. It also uses its shapechanging powers to assume an innocuous form like a horse or lures people into riding it, galloping with them into a river or lake to drown them.

Natural Guardians. The falajitax sometimes appoint themselves as guardians of natural treasures or places of natural beauty, and they have a particular fondness for honey. They protect such hives from exploitation as they tend to them and sup the honey for themselves, though if properly approached with singing and offering of aromatic ointments, they can sometimes be persuaded to peacefully coexist with local shamans and their villages to share such precious commodities.