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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5037100" data-attributes="member: 4937">I personally find your interpretation to be not inspired by myth or story, but by game.  The game requires that PC's not get hippogriffs at the corner market, so they don't.It's virtually impossible to find any mythological reference to hippogriffs that isn't them as a steed or pet of some heroic character.  If in fact it is true that they can fly only because they are empowered by freedom - which is certainly not a concept found in hippogrif myths - then they ought to lose the ability to fly shortly after someone puts a saddle on them.  Do they somehow keep the "light airy spirit of freedom" while being used as a beast of burden?  And conversely, if they don't loose the ability to fly solely because someone puts a saddle on them and uses them as a beast of burden, why couldn't you just ranch foals for a few years while they cultivate this spirit before breaking them for the saddle?  In which case, even under your description they might be something that can be bought for the corner market.If you really want to adhere to the myth but keep them out of the corner market, you could make hippogriffs as sterile as mules, forcing anyone that wants one to convince a griffon to mate with its favorite food.</blockquote>