I love all my weird gryphons, but I don’t like this one.
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I love all my weird gryphons, but I don’t like this one.
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I suspect it would be an aggressive megabeastie too. Ever seen a random bird cornered by a horny peacock? Those things do NOT take no for an answer. Tusks would not help the situation.
Elephant males with musth on top of that.
Now roll THAT in your head.
Yeah, let’s file this under “Y” for “YIKES!”.
I literally asked for this but YIKES.
Okay, any mammal?
Hippopotamus and Australian magpie.
Hippos because they’re territorial and aggressive.
And Aussie Magpies during swooping season.
A true Hippogriff
Okay, if the gryphons are going to get as weird as the peacock elephant, I want to make a gryphon that can be mistaken as a Kunpeng! Please note, Kun and Peng are the two forms the actual Chinese Mythological Creature (with Peng being a giant Bird and Kun being a giant Fish). But, because people are people, laziness sets in, and people started giving it a midform of both, mostly because it’s referred to as the Kun Peng when you don’t know what form it is in.
Now, for the body, as I need a mammal, I need to select some sort of Whale or Dolphin. Both do work, because a dolphin is still giant for a fish, but I prefer it to be a whale.
The real problem is the bird. I know nothing about birds that would look good. That said, I decided to look up kookaburra’s knowing I would probably reject them, and saw something actually quite nice.
So, for my gryphon that’s mistaken for a Kunpeng, I suggest a Blue Whale mixed with a Spangled Kookaburra.
Nice to see someone go for a kookie that isn’t the laughing kookaburra! Kingfishers are always a pretty sight. Plus, it’s from the Land of the Bird of Paradise, of course this kookie has to dress up in fancy plumage. But mixing a blue whale with a archaepelago species from a very shallow water sea seems a bit unfair?
Another truly cursed gryphon (it’s more of a hippogriff): rhino/marabou.
Maybe it would help if it’s peacock-size? Well except for the horniness issue.
Have you done a hippogriff or something that could be mistaken for a Peryton yet? What about a griffon where the mammal-part is human?
If the elephant half is one of those extinct dwarf elephants, then it’ll definitely be small.
The human-griff was done a few questions ago (a true marvel of nature), and the perytons are basically winged deer (flying reindeer lol) while the hippogriffs have a classic gryphon arrangement with bird heads and features of their mammal half, like ears, horns, etc. (2023 reader questions nr 95)
Since nothing’s sacred anymore, what would a chicken griffin look like?
Chicken … fox?
That might turn out to be a type of gryphon renowed for it’s pick-pocketing abilities. I can’t count the times growing up that my dad had to AGAIN reinforce the chicken coop because either the biddies were getting out or the foxes were getting in.
Holy osteoperosis, Batman o.o
How about a secretary bird and cheetah gryphon? All the long graceful limbs!
We got that lovely “leggy beast” already :)
You can see it in reader questions 2018, question 124