Creature Name: Mutt

General Description
A Mutt is a combination of a Dragon, a Horse, and a Dog. Sounds kind of strange right? Well it looks kind of strange too. The Mutt is approximately the size of a Beagle dog but it has the feet and tail of a horse, the wings and head of a dragon and it barks instead of roars. Nobody really knows how the Mutt was created but it is assumed that some loony wizard’s spell backfired when he had 2 beagles, 2 horses, and 2 Pernese dragons in his study (nobody has fessed up yet). Anyway the Mutt started with just one breeding pair but since they lay clutches like dragons they have quickly multiplied. Mutts are very friendly and love to cuddle up on the couch with their bond-mates, or whine at them for attention if you won’t let them on the couch.

Originally Created by
Maira

Special Abilities
Can your creatures teleport, or perhaps enhance magic?: Mutts aren’t incredibly magical but they are telepathic with their bond-mate and their bond-mates family(makes it easy to be let out to go potty) and they can fly, hence the wings.

Oddities
Does this creature need to bond? Yes/No: Yes
If yes, when? (Immediately after hatching/birth; a few days/weeks after hatching/birth): by the time they are weaned from their mother

Anything else odd about it, such as being able to eat only blue food: Despite its dragon head, Mutts are omnivorous and much more willing to eat veggies than children.


Specific Physical Statistics
Size at birth: beagle pup size
Size at maturity: grown beagle dog
Time to maturity: 1 year
Number of wings/arms/legs if a peculiar number: Four legs, two wings
Scales? Hide? Feathers? Short beagle fur and markings with hide wings
Anything else you can think of.

Mental Abilities
How smart are they?: They have the brains of a Pernese Dragon and the heart of a Beagle therefore they are smart and lovable.
Are they particularly good at puzzles, or some sort of brain activity?: average
Anything else you can think of.

Breeding
How often can the creature get pregnant?: twice a year
How long between pregnancies?: 6 months
How long is it pregnant?: 2 months pregnant, 2 months till hatching, 2 months after hatching till weaned.
Are all females fertile (barring accidents)?: yes(since they don’t chew firestone greens cane reproduce as well)
Are all males fertile (barring accidents)?: yes
Is there sex linked traits (like color)?: yes, see below
How many offspring can the creature have at once?:4-12
Anything else you can think of: Mutt runts will have White Dragon parts and are infertile, can be male or female.

Dragon Part Colors
Gold-female
Bronze-Male
Garnet*-female
Brown-male
Blue-male
Green-female
White-male or female-infertile runts/sports

*side effect of the spell was a new female color

Creature name: Dai'Wadeeyan Sphinx - not bondable, only one left, location unknown

General Info:
Guardians of the desert and mountain passes, the Sphinx were a dying race. They lived long and bred slow. By the time the last male died only three females remained: one lion type, one tiger type and one leopard type. The three females gathered to mourn the loss of their last male but when that was finished, they came up with a plan to try and save their race: they would breed out.

Anymore, most griffons were too proud to want to bother helping the sphinx, most actually considered the sphinx a mistake in the first place. The humans however weren’t nearly as rude and much easier to convince. Since the sphinx guarded the desert and mountain passes any human that wanted to pass had to answer a riddle. In old times if the human failed to answer the riddle correctly he would be eaten. With the new plan that the three females had come up with if the riddle was answered incorrectly the men had two choices: one, breed with the sphinx; or two, get eaten. Needless to say the men chose the first option.

Since humans breed much faster than sphinx each time this breeding would occur a child would result, up to once a year. Unfortunately, in the sphinx eyes, these children were not quite like their mothers. Instead of having the body of a big cat they had the body of a human. Also, with the exception of their tail, all fur had disappeared from their bodies although the color patterns still tinted the skin and determined their hair color.

Shortly after this plan was put into effect the two oldest females died. This left the lone lioness sphinx to finish alone. Each sphinx had borne 100 offspring, one each year since the male’s death, and their numbers were growing steadily. When she was certain that her and her companions’ children were not in any danger of dying out the last sphinx left the planet in search of a wizard who could create her a mate. To this day she still searches the universe to no avail.