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Gryphon is a large non-morphic griffin, perhaps eight feet long from chest to rump, who stands three and a half feet tall at the shoulder. Adding to his length is his leonine tail, which is four feet long in and of itself, and is tipped in a tuft of black fur. Gryphon has a head like a predatory bird- a cross between hawk and eagle- with a great hooked beak and large eyes. Unlike a bird, though, he has pointed feathered ears atop his head, and his eyes are heavy-lidded. His formidable beak seems to be quite pliable where it joins his face, allowing him a complete range of facial expressions. |
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Back to Mythical Creatures |
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The griffin (or gryphon) a quadruped having the tail and hindquarters of a lion and the eagle's fore limbs, wings and head, to which a pair of ears is added, is supposed to be of gigantic proportions, the morphology being left to our own deduction after we have been informed that one claw is the size of a cow's horn. It is blazoned either as armed or as beaked and forelegged. It has the wings of an eagle. |
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His forelegs are like those of a bird of prey, scaled and taloned, though much thicker in their bone structure. His large wings span twenty feet when he doesn't have them folded against his back. The thick feathers that cover the front half of his body give way to sleek fur at his middle, and his rear half is that of a lion. Gryphon is colored in nearly all earthtones, from the rich red-brown of his feathers to the sunset tawny fur of his lion half to the deep, liquid amber brown of his eyes. Only the golden scales of his forelegs and the warm orange-yellow of his beak break the rule. |
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