I'm not sure exactly what legend the Gryphon sprang from. The Gryphon seems to be another invention of the Medieval mind and imagination. The creature can be found in many pictures and artworks of the time. Most often the beast was found within heraldic symbols often used to denote one noble house from another. These symbols came to be known as a noble family's coat of arms. The most noted coat of arms that has a Gryphon in it's design can be seen is that of the English royal family.

Gryphon is a large non-morphic griffin, perhaps eight feet long from chest to rump, who stands three and a half feet tall at the shoulder. Adding to his length is his leonine tail, which is four feet long in and of itself, and is tipped in a tuft of black fur. Gryphon has a head like a predatory bird- a cross between hawk and eagle- with a great hooked beak and large eyes. Unlike a bird, though, he has pointed feathered ears atop his head, and his eyes are heavy-lidded. His formidable beak seems to be quite pliable where it joins his face, allowing him a complete range of facial expressions. His forelegs are like those of a bird of prey, scaled and taloned, though much thicker in their bone structure. His large wings span twenty feet when he doesn't have them folded against his back. The thick feathers that cover the front half of his body give way to sleek fur at his middle, and his rear half is that of a lion. Gryphon is colored in nearly all earthtones, from the rich red-brown of his feathers to the sunset tawny fur of his lion half to the deep, liquid amber brown of his eyes. Only the golden scales of his forelegs and the warm orange-yellow of his beak break the rule.