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Cockatrice

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The badlanders ride these giant gryphons around. The clan leader’s heir soulbinds with a cockatrice as soon as they are able.

Cockatrices are browsing herbivores (with potential for scavenging etc) and potentially a bit unpredictable. They need to be carefully tamed or they’ll be just trouble when they’re adults.

During the mating time males honk and bellow loudly and demonstrate their brightly colored chests and wattles for the females. Sometimes the males peck t each other, but altercations are relatively few.

Most of the animals used as mounts are female.

The female selects a mate for itself and they stay together until the hatchlings are able to follow the female. Then the male loses interest.

The clan stays put for the duration of the pair nesting. Hatchlings can be transported in little fenced platforms that are mounted on some of the adults’ backs.

People bonded with cockatrices are commonly brave, severe and humorless.

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I have a feeling they have a distrust of weasels and are agitated by the call of a rooster