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This is a list of flying mythological creatures. This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures. This listing includes flying and weather-affecting creatures. Adzehate creatures
Sassanid bowl with sitting griffin, gilted silver, from Iran.. The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Ancient Greek: γρύψ, romanized: grýps; Classical Latin: grȳps or grȳpus; [1] Late and Medieval Latin: [2] gryphes, grypho etc.; Old French: griffon) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.
Quetzalcoatlus (/ k ɛ t s əl k oʊ ˈ æ t l ə s /) is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous in North America. The type specimen, recovered in 1971 from the Javelina Formation of Texas, United States, consists of several wing fragments and was described as Quetzalcoatlus northropi in 1975 by Douglas Lawson.
1690 painting by Franz Rösel von Rosenhof showing two roc-like birds carrying a deer and an elephant; a third grapples with a lion. Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela reported a story reminiscent of the roc in which shipwrecked sailors escaped from a desert island by wrapping themselves in ox-hides and letting griffins carry them off as if they were ...
Introduced ten creatures from the Spelljammer setting to the 5th Edition. [7] [10] Monstrous Compendium Vol 2: Dragonlance Creatures: F. Wesley Schneider, Makenzie De Armas, Ron Lundeen, Jeremy Crawford December 5, 2022: Introduced ten creatures from the Dragonlance campaign setting to the 5th Edition. [11] Monstrous Compendium Vol 3: Minecraft ...
Tikbalang – creature with the body of a man and the head and hooves of a horse, lurks in the mountains and forests (Philippines) Uchchaihshravas – seven-headed all white flying horse (Hindu) Unicorn – horse-like creature with a single horn, often symbolizing purity (Worldwide) Winged unicorn
Volo's Guide to Monsters adds a variety of new playable races and expands on existing creatures in the Monster Manual in addition to adding new ones. [3] The book also contains marginalia by both Volothamp Geddarm and Elminster of Shadowdale.
Illithids are hermaphroditic creatures [34] who each spawn a mass of larvae two or three times in their life. [35] The larvae resemble miniature illithid heads or four-tentacled tadpoles. Larvae are left to develop in the pool of the Elder Brain. The ones that survive after 10 years are inserted into the brain of a sapient creature. [5]