Maulwing - The Chimera
Above the windblown crags of the Shattered Coast, a shadow with three snarling faces sweeps across the rock. Maulwing the Threefold Terror has claimed the highest peaks as its killing grounds.
Role in Its Society:
Chimeras are solitary apex predators, but Maulwing is unusually territorial and intelligent. It has driven rival chimeras far from the region and now dominates a hunting range spanning three valleys. It does not hunt solely for food—sometimes it kills to display dominance over the highlands, scattering corpses along cliff paths as grim warnings.
Appearance Description:
Maulwing’s leonine body is broad-shouldered and powerful, the goat head jutting from its left shoulder crowned with curling black horns, and the dragon head rearing from its right shoulder, scales of mottled rust and bronze. Its great batlike wings stretch wide enough to shadow an entire caravan, and its leonine tail ends in a hooked, bone-crusted barb. Scars crisscross its hide, each one a trophy of past battles.
Backstory:
Local legend claims Maulwing was the failed creation of a mountain cult that sought to blend the fiercest predators into one divine beast. Instead, they spawned a nightmare that turned on them. Maulwing lairs in the ruins of their cliffside temple, using the shattered towers as perches for spotting prey miles away. Superstitious herders still leave offerings of goats and oxen on distant plateaus, hoping to avert its wrath.
