tyrantisterror:VERY close to the end of my list of heraldic beasts.  Let’s go over this b

tyrantisterror:

VERY close to the end of my list of heraldic beasts.  Let’s go over this batch of misfits:

Crapard: a very large toad.  Able to eat a horse whole large.

Emmet:an ant the size of a pony.

Bonnacon: a magical bovine.  Some species breathe fire from their nostrils.  Others expel it from, well, their other end.

Nebek: a strange trunked beast the size of a large hound.  Omnivorous and voracious.

Lubolf: a magical hippo, and one of the most dangerous herbivores on Midgaheim.

Phoenix: arcane birds who are masters of fire, wind, and oddly enough, water magic.  When a phoenix dies, its body combusts into magic flames that reforge its remains into an egg, which soon hatches into a new phoenix.

Phenex: aka the false phoenix, these birds sport the exact same magic powers as phoenixes, despite being distant relatives at best.  It’s very confusing to the average human citizen of Midgaheim, who is likely only to read about these birds in bestiaries rather than seeing them in person - and made all the more confusing by a THIRD family of fire magic using birds, the aptly named Firebirds of Ruslovak, who also sport some similar powers as the phoenix and phenex.  It is said Phenexes can be found on the continent to Midgaheim’s East, where they are known by a different name.

Cameleopard: a strange creature that, to the untrained eye, looks vaguely like a camel with a leopard’s coloration.  Many have tried to make mounts of these strange, long-necked hooved animals, only to be bucked off to their doom thanks to the immense height of the beasts.  They may have inspired the creation of the Questing Beast, a chimera that has many similarities to a cameleopard when they are poorly described by a person who has only heard of them from bestiaries.

Rukh: aka the kreutzet, the cornu, the hraesvelg, the bariuchne, or simply the very large eagle.  There are several species of immense eagle around Midgaheim, with many names as well, but it seems bestiary writers have settled on rukh as the catch-all name, which is itself a loan word taken from the continent to Midgaheim’s South East.

Tytron: a goat with an extra pair of ram-like horns.