Saturday, July 12, 2025

D6x6 Galumphing Gryphons

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D6These gryphons have the front half
1of an albatross.
2of a potoo.
3of a shoebill.
4of a pileated woodpecker.
5of a rooster.
6of a raven.
D6These gryphons has the back half
1of a leopard.
2of a manul.
3of a cougar.
4of a lynx.
5of a serval.
6of a liger.
D6These gryphons are
1celestial beings that are bestowed by the gods as mounts to those who serve the will of the heavens.
2a biomancer's living thesis, proof of their theory of animal-grafting.
3a noble house's heraldric eidolon force-meated into fleshly form.
4native creatures of the flying sky-islands.
5living artifacts of the harmonious world which preceded our discordant one, wherein living things evolved by merging into hybrids rather than splitting and speciating.
6spat out alongside other chimeras by a repopulation vault meant to restore surface life after some catastrophe - that same catastrophe damaged the vault's directing intelligence, causing it to make things like gryphons instead of pure forms.
D6These gryphons prefer to attack prey
1by dive-pouncing from a great height.
2that are healthy, abhoring sickly meat.
3in pairs, one coming in low, the other coming in high.
4that don't back down after a threat display - there's some beastly honour in it.
5by picking off the weakest member of a group first, to use them as bait for an ambush for the rest.
6from behind, like a tiger, and like tigers can be confused by wearing a mask on the back of your head.
D6These gryphons are known
1to collect various spices - barks and resins and dried berries and so on and so forth - to blend them into incomparably delicious proprietary mixtures with which they attract mates.
2to engage in surplus killing towards horses, and thus are assumed to hate them.
3to be excellent appraisers of jewelry, able to tell in an instant if a piece is a counterfeit or if precious metal has been debased.
4to sing only once in their lives - at the moment of their death - and this is known to be a surpassingly beautiful song.
5to drop tortoises shell-first onto the heads of bald men and elephants, and screech uproariously afterwards as if they find it hilarious.
6to mark their territory by scratching geoglyphs into the earth.
D6These gryphons nest
1amid branches sharpened and entrenched like pallisades, bristling outwards and upwards.
2out in the open, in mounds of cloth and shiny baubles they've pilfered.
3opportunistically, in the lairs of other creatures which they chase out.
4in coracle-like constructions of mud and twigs which they float in lakes and ponds.
5in tubular structures made from their spittle mixed with the blood of their prey, which they build on the undersides of overhanging cliffs.
6atop pillars of stone, tossing their chicks over the edge in a trial-by-fire method of teaching flight - man-made towers trigger the same instinct.

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