At full height it stands at a formidable seven foot seven. Its skin is black--so dark that it looks more like an absence than a presence, like looking out your window on an overcast night, an utter lack of illumination. So dark, it's impossible to make out a texture without touching it, and should you manage to do so the skin is dry and rough, like uneven sandpaper. Yet somehow, it moves silently.
It has no face. What it does have can only generously be called a head; its sinewy neck terminates in a clump of muscle, extending from which is a two foot razor sharp beak. The beak is as black as its skin but harder, giving the insane impression of being carved from wood. It's sharp enough to slice through flesh with minimal effort. The thing drools, a bright-red substance that coats the beak and dribbles down onto its chest, faintly glowing in the dark.
Its torso seems roughly human, well-muscled and visibly powerful. Its shoulders are broad and slope slightly downwards towards the two arms--which are more obviously not the arms of a human being. Each is jointed three times--two elbows and a wrist. The muscles between the joints are hard as iron. Beyond the wrists are the thing's hands--hands that immediately grab your attention as being wrong. There are four long fingers, each, like the arms, with one too many joints; each of these fingers appear double-jointed, so the thing has palms on both sides of its hands, and each finger ends in a calloused stub, lacking nails or claws. There are two thumbs, one on either side, each one joint too long and double-jointed like the fingers.
Its abdomen is long and lithe, with strangely feminine hips across which its skin is pulled almost taut. At first glance its the legs resemble those of a goat, or perhaps a devil, but upon closer inspection the legs, like the arms, have one extra joint--two knees, and an ankle. The upper knees bend like your own, while the ones below the lower thighs are reversed. Below these are long, narrow shins and powerful calf muscles terminating in ankles that seem to be far more flexible than those of the average human. From the ankles sprout three thick, stubby toes, one in the back and two in the front; these are completely without joint and function like fleshy tripods. These toes, as well as the fingers, can easily cling to vertical surfaces, allowing the thing to stalk along the walls as easily as walking on the ground.
