Blazewing

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Name: ( First and Last name. Middle name optional) Blazewing

Nickname (optional): Blaze

Gender: (Male or female) Male

Race: (demigod, satyr, cyclops, god, monster, mortal, etc.) Monster, griffen

Cabin (if you go to Camp Half-Blood): None

Parent(s): Unknown

Birthday: July 10

Age: 100

Appearance: (A description of your character. Nothing hard, just a couple sentences.)
Blazewing has a lion's body and eagle's head, wings, and front legs are hawk legs, back are lion. It is of a huge size with claws big enough to be cups. It can fly and is avery dangerous enemy. It has hawk like vision and lion like skills.

Personality: (Same with the personality, a little information about your character.)
Blazewing is a little like what the tales of griffins say about him. He is mean and only does things so that he can get the upper hand. He is on no sides, though he does care about what those who see through the mist say about monsters for some strange reason.

Diet:

His diet is of horse meat, and other meat that is close to equine, and fish sometimes if things are desperate. Does and can easily kill a human, though rarely eats.

Other (optional): Maybe another monster that is acutally on a side and is blood thirsty, or how someone would think it should act like.

[Wolfezth Deraine]

A few minor edits to be fixed, but otherwise fine.

1) A griffin has the front legs of an eagle as well in some cases, so you can choose either.

2) On the contrary of popular belief? I looked this up to make sure, and I couldn't find ONE story or myth that said a griffin was a noble and benevolent creature aside from Mercedes Lackey's Griffin trilogy involving them as main characters; also giving them human intelligence. They are almost always portrayed as low-intelligence horseflesh eaters. They make a natural sworn enemy of horsekind, with horseflesh being their favorite and only food if they can manage it.

3) Griffins CAN be tamed, just for future reference. But to do so you must climb up the mountain the griffin lays its eggs on (To fly up there would be suicide, because the mother griffin would see you and the pegasi's main defense against the griffin is numbers and running the hell away. A mother griffin protecting her babies would be even fiercer than usual and not try and save some of the meat for food; she'd just rip you to pieces.) The purpose of the climbing is to try and hide yourself until the mother griffin leaves so you can grab an egg. Flying up there even when the mother griffin is gone is suicide because it can detect the smell of horseflesh from miles away. (Pegasi being nearly the ONLY way of getting up there for a demigod.) Then you have to climb ALL the way back down the mountain, always being the tallest cliff, mountain, etc. they can find. Then you have to figure out how to raise it, still being one hell of a ride trying to figure out what means what and what it needs to eat and etc. If it doesn't die and you treat it well, it will obey you. The problem with the only really proven method (this one) is that if the mother griffin sees you... You're dead. Climbing up a mountain or cliff, you have no defense whatsoever. For this reason only the people who desperately need it, or the exceptionally brave or stupid try this.

4) As aforementioned, the diet of the griffin is HORSEFLESH. As often as they can get it, as much as they can get. In times where horseflesh is scarce they WILL eat similar sized creatures. (Deer, lions, moose, etc.) Humans not being eaten because it is so bony and so little meat on it. Not saying it has no compunction about KILLING humans; it just doesn't eat 'em.

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EDIT:

Copywrite TSR


Half-lion, half-eagle, griffons are ferocious avian carnivores that prey upon horses and their kin (hippogriffs, pegasi, and unicorns). This hunger for horseflesh often brings griffons into direct conflict with humans and demihumans.
Adult griffons stand five feet at the shoulder and weigh over half a ton. Their head, upper torso, and forelegs are like those of a giant eagle. This eagle half is covered in golden feathers from its wing tips to its razor-sharp beak. Their powerful forelimbs end in long, hooked talons. Wings, with a span of 25 feet or more, rise out of their backs. The lower half of a griffon is that of a lion. Dusky yellow fur covers the lion half's muscular rear legs and clawed feet. A lion's tail hangs down from the griffon's powerful rear haunches. Griffons speak no languages, but emit an eagle-like screech when angered or excited (usually by the smell of horse).

Combat: Griffons hunt in groups of 12 or less, searching the plains and forests near (within 20 miles) their lair for horses and herd animals. With their superior vision and sense of smell, griffons can spot prey up to two miles distant. If the prey is horse or horse-kin, griffons are 90% likely to attack even if the horses have riders. Griffons hunt only for food, so a rider who releases one or two horses can usually escape unharmed (though in all likelihood his horse won't). Any attempt to protect a horse brings the full fury of the attacking griffons on the protector.
When attacking ground targets, griffons use their great size and weight to swoop down from above and raking their opponent with the talons before landing nearby. Griffons always fight to the death if there is horseflesh at stake.
In aerial combat, griffons are equally fierce, lunging into battle and tearing at their opponent until they or their prey are dead. Many a griffon has plummeted to its death with a struggling hippogriff caught firmly in its grasp.

Habitat/Society: Griffons prefer rocky habitats, near open plains. Once griffons establish their territory, they remain until the food supply has been exhausted.
Griffons, like lions, live in prides, with each pride comprising several mated pairs, their young, and one dominant male. The dominant male is responsible for settling territorial disputes with other prides and choosing the direction the hunt will take.
Each pair of mated griffons in the pride has its own nest, located near the pride's other lairs. Griffon nests are usually situated in shallow caves, high along a cliff face.
The nests are made of sticks and leaves, as well as an occasional bone. Griffons collect no treasure, but their caves frequently contain the remains of unfortunate travelers who tried to protect their horses from the griffons.
During spring, female griffons lay one or two eggs that hatch in the late summer. For the first three months griffon young are known as hatchlings; thereafter, until they mature the young are called fledglings. Griffon young grow rapidly for three years until they are large enough to hunt with the pride. Adult griffons are extremely protective of their young and attack without mercy any creature that approaches within 100 feet of the nest.

Ecology: If trained from a very early age (three years or less), griffons will serve as mounts. The training, however, is both time-consuming and expensive, requiring the expertise of an animal trainer for two years. Once trained, though, griffons make fierce and loyal steeds, bonding with one master for life, and protecting him even unto death. A griffon mount knows no fear in battle, but attacks any horse or horse-kin in preference to other opponents.
Acquiring a griffon fledgling is a very dangerous venture as the adults never stray far from the nest and fight to the death to defend eggs or young. Any given griffon nest is 75% likely to contain one or two fledglings or eggs. Fledgling griffons sell for 5,000 gold pieces on the open market; eggs sell for 2,000 gold pieces each.

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It can be spelled:

Griffin
Griffon
Gryphon
etc.

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Edited, tell me if I am forgetting anything else.

[Wolfezth Deraine]

That's fine. Keep in mind the specifics I posted as well.

It will under no circumstances have any rider at that age. No exceptions; that's the only thing I'd like to make clear. Not even gods for future reference. Gryphons don't take crap from ANYBODY, quite frankly. Mind is rotating around eating horses, and everything else comes as secondary.

Other than that, it's fine by me.

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It has no sides and I wasn't even thinking of a rider for it. It was to kill and use people for it's own advantage.

[Wolfezth Deraine]

Gryphons don't have the intelligence to manipulate people. The gryphon's only concern is eating more horseflesh, and that is it. Nothing else except for mating and killing those that protect horseflesh.

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Ok, I'll make him dumb, but please give a little. I need some room to give him so personality other than a (to our standards) dumb, horse eatting monster, that has no sides.

[Wolfezth Deraine]

Gryphons aren't dumb, they're feral. It has the same intelligence level as a dog or wolf.

In an animal's eyes, humans are absolutely and utterly retarded. Our priorities aren't just to survive, and that is our downfall in the wilderness many, many times.

Dumb is less than average intelligence, and is almost an exclusively human term. Animals are feral and simple, they have their priorities straight. That is in no way dumb.

[luncia]

I get it, ok, I'll make him feral, is everything ok now?

[Wolfezth Deraine]

You don't 'make him feral', all animals are. Intelligence is measured in mathematical equations and memory banks, and there is no way to conduct those tests on anything but a human. Those actions and tests are absolutely worthless to anything not human, and you have to recognize that.

Animals are not human, and that is the main obstacle in roleplaying as something not human. People tend to try and personify them as something they're not, and give them objectives and thoughts they simply do not possess.

A gryphon doesn't give half a damn how many people are climbing up the mountain to try and get her eggs, the gryphon is going to fling every single one of them to their deaths. Such irrelevant things as counting and foreplanning never cross the gryphon's mind. Like I said, about the same obvious intelligence level as a dog or wolf.

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Not make him feral, I just ment that I was going to rp him that way the best I can and I am going to keep it that way.

[Wolfezth Deraine]

That's fine. I have extended experience roleplaying as monsters, so if I spot any major inconsistencies I'ma let you know.

The main obstacle is getting into the creature's way of thinking. As a DM for several years it was an obstacle that came quite easily to me for most monsters but for others it is rather hard.

I'ma give it the green light for now.