Memory:Abaddon Emberwing

With a loud clashing of its metallic brassy wings, the griffon leaps towards you. The griffon's eyes gleam brightly in its aquiline head, as it scents your blood, and it cries out in hunger and rage. The griffon's huge leonine body bulges with muscles with each gliding leap, and its blade-sharp beak clashes like a sword on a shield as it nears you. Such beasts should only exist in legends, but some magic must have enabled this one to take shape in living flesh. It is about the size of a lion and also has a lion's hind quarters, but its tail ends in a serpent's head and it has the head and wings of a giant hawk. Large sharp eyes stare at you and the powerful curved beak emits a shrill cry as it leaps. Thanking the gods that it can't really fly in here, you face the onslaught.