# Dune Vulture

Circles the dome all day waiting for something to stop moving.

Character · Fictionalized · Established

Stable ID: `starlight-vulture` · Revision 1 · Updated 2026-10-30

Context: [Starlight Menagerie](/field-guide/collections/starlight-menagerie/)

[Web page](/field-guide/entities/starlight-vulture/) · [JSON record](/field-guide/entities/starlight-vulture/record.json)

## At a glance

- A dark brown body, a bare red head, and a single pale crystal horn on top. It circles under the dome as if the dome were a sky.

- Circles overhead, then dives. Each hit takes 8 points off a 100-point shield.

- Home: Kesh.

## Appearances

- [Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html) (context: [Starlight Menagerie](/field-guide/collections/starlight-menagerie/))

- [The creatures](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/creatures.html): Named in this published page.

- [The map of Doorly Orbital](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/map.html): Named in this published page.

## Dated changes

- 2026-10-30: Added from the named source to the Field Guide.

## Open questions

- Inspired by Vulture; the guide describes its game depiction.

## Sources

- [Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html)

## Reference library

### Scene

![Dune Vulture in the Starlight Menagerie.](/gamelab/assets/starlight-menagerie/creatures/vulture-three.webp)

Dune Vulture in the Starlight Menagerie.

[Download original](/gamelab/assets/starlight-menagerie/creatures/vulture-three.webp) · [Starlight Menagerie encyclopedia](/gamelab/starlight-menagerie/encyclopedia.html) · v1 · SHA-256: `e99191c9d5540142c02c664d24ff8cd27be5c585f72225ddfc5d1dd4384c3508`