[@Flagg] No problem, switched to a description and added in the three major pantheons/religions of the Islands. 

And yes, it is influenced by the Rus'

Harpies are to an extent going to be the Uralic or Turkic peoples to the Norse-Slavic Zimij; the over the top brutality of the Maldpa being sort of an oblique reference to the percieved brutality of the Mongols.