The Handmaidens appear as mummified women who are missing their lower halves. It is rumored that the undead sorceress have their lower halves removed during some ritual to increase their power. To compensate for the lack of mobility, the Handmaidens bodies are strapped to predatory flightless bird skeletons. The birds skeletons are from a species of flightless bird native to the [[Torajan Jungles]] to the south and appear to be closely related to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae|Phorusrhacids]], or Terror Birds, of South America that lived during the Cenozoic period.