Reaching a mutually agreeable accord or even a friendship is a much more elegant and safe route to securing a griffon mount.īefore it can be ridden in combat, a griffon requires practice bearing the weight of its rider. Despite the inherent danger, trade in captured griffons and stolen eggs is brisk, with their eggs worth up to 3, gp apiece and live young twice that. It was likely this innate stubbornness and fierce loyalty that first brought them into domestic use as mounts and guardians of treasure hoards.

Griffons mate for life, and will often search for years to take vengeance over a slain mate or child. While they can sometimes be trained or befriended to serve as mounts, griffons have no inherent affinity for humanoids, and frequently come into bloody conflict with civilized races over their attempts to secure their favorite food-horse flesh. In reality, the griffon is less concerned with abstract concepts than with hunting food and protecting its own. Weighing in at over pounds and measuring 8 feet long from hooked beak to tufted tail, the griffon strikes an imposing silhouette that has long been used in heraldry and other iconography as a symbol of power, authority, and justice. Aggressive and territorial, they are no mere beasts, but rather calculating combatants and loyal companions to those who earn their respect, fighting to the death to protect their friends and kin. Griffons are powerful aerial predators, swooping down from their high aeries to take their prey with beak and talon. Environment temperate hills Organization solitary, pair, or pride 6-10 Treasure incidental.

This majestic beast has the body of a lion, the head and forelegs of a great eagle, and a massive pair of feathered wings.

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