#pterripus

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Pterripi

[cicadaking]

WIP of a ref for a pterripi character of mine.

[dwollsadventures]

This one was cut off from the original drawing, which was a shame. Technically I'd talk about the winged horses first, but I really want to talk about cyclopes. Cyclops are descended from either the three original ones (Brontes, Steropes, and Arges) or some sea gods. Unlike their mountain sized progenitors, most cyclopes top out at around eight or nine feet. One of the bigger oversights from my Daily D&D Monsters was just turning the Polyphemus-type cyclopes and Brontes-type cyclopes into two varieties. Might redo them one day or another. Cyclops society offers a lot of jobs, including offering their services to humans. Not all are blacksmiths and only the really yokel ones are cannibalistic shepherds. Winged horses, or pegasi, or more properly Hippalectryon, were used as steeds by Athenians and Bellerophon that one time. In a vain attempt to distance myself from hexapods I used the older models seen from pottery. This is a case of me being anachronistic for no actual reason. They wouldn't actually be able to fly, but run faster than horses and do that bouncing jump planes do when landing. Very few are actually tamed, most lived in the mountains of the Balkans, but relocated due to the warfare to Russia and Georgia.

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Book Review: Pterripus—The Awakening by Kristl Thompson

Review by Sharon

This magical tale follows the adventures of Lilly, a child born of the Earth, whose destiny lies elsewhere, in a world called Nostobirum. On her fifteenth birthday, she is whisked away to an unfamiliar place to learn who she is, and what she must do to protect not only Buthania, (that world's biggest land mass) but Earth as well. She must fulfil her destiny according to ancient prophecy. A great deal of responsibility is dumped on her teenage shoulders, and she carries that burden willingly, even though she doesn't really believe that the prophecy pertains to her. 

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