Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-93.143.133.17-20140409192826/@comment-184.5.186.240-20140411083428

It's possible that all crow demons are intelligent. It could be that the ones encountered in the painted world were there to guard against intruders, so they attacked anyone that entered. As for Ornifex acting as a merchant and a smith, that may have always been her job or her hobby. Otherwise, she may have just been the rebellious sort and decided to follow her own dream. Finally for her still being alive, while Lordran is large, it isn't the entire world, so it is easily possible that there are many crow demons that are never encountered in DS, they could even have an entire society somewhere since there is no contradicting evidence, as far as I know.