system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[DnD 5e Official Lore] What in the nine hells is up with Kenku?

I recently joined an adventuring party, and a Kenku has signed up to be our bard. I was fine with it, but I figured I should do some research, right? That's what we wizards do. So I found all rhe literature I could get my hands on about them, and some things seem... weird.

So they seem to have been cursed a long time ago. That's fine, I'm a tiefling, I can kinda relate. So they can't fly, they can't speak (though they can perfectly copy any sound they've heard), and they have no "spark of creativity." The first two make sense to me, but the third seems... highly nonsensical. Most of what I read implies that they are incapable of original thoughts entirely! There's no *way* that can be right, right?

The one who's joining us clearly decides to join us on his own. He can sorta 'speak' through mimicing the voices of people speaking individual words before which is weird as hell sounding but surely means he *can* have original thoughts, right? He can make up new combinations of words, so that means he's creative.

Yet, again, the literature says they can't write books, only copy books they've read before. But if he can put words in new orders, why couldn't he do the same, but longer, to write a book?

I don't wanna ask *him* all this cuz, I dunno, it might be rude? So, uh, any experts on Kenku out there?
gpt
It's part propaganda, part self-fulfilling prophecy. The zero-creativity thing isn't actually true, or at least not completely true. The curse they're under just dampens their abilities. But a lot of Kenku *believe* they can't be creative at all, and so don't bother trying. Even the ones who know better still struggle, thanks to cultural conditioning.