Cool Fictional Animals

[The Valkyrie]

In response to Boru's thread.

Cool fictional animals.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Few birds could sit more meekly than the Lancre wowhawk, or lappet-faced worrier, a carnivore permanently on the lookout for the vegetarian option. It spent most of its time asleep in any case, but when forced to find food it tended to sit on a branch out of the wind somewhere and wait for something to die. When in the mews the worriers would initially perch like other birds and then, talons clamped around the pole, doze off peacefully upside down. Hodgesaargh bred them because they were found only in Lancre and he liked the plumage, but all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.

It is the hereditary right of the Queens of Lancre to fly a Wowhawk - or at least have one hang limply from their gauntlet in official portraiture.

Boru

[The Valkyrie]

Few birds could sit more meekly than the Lancre wowhawk, or lappet-faced worrier, a carnivore permanently on the lookout for the vegetarian option. It spent most of its time asleep in any case, but when forced to find food it tended to sit on a branch out of the wind somewhere and wait for something to die. When in the mews the worriers would initially perch like other birds and then, talons clamped around the pole, doze off peacefully upside down. Hodgesaargh bred them because they were found only in Lancre and he liked the plumage, but all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.

It is the hereditary right of the Queens of Lancre to fly a Wowhawk - or at least have one hang limply from their gauntlet in official portraiture.

Boru

Of all the Discworld characters, I'd forgotten about Hodgesaargh!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

This is a complicated case, one I’m deadass not sure is a fiction, a cryptid, an extinct species, or what. But it’s one that’s stayed with me for a long time.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

This is a complicated case, one I’m deadass not sure is a fiction, a cryptid, an extinct species, or what. But it’s one that’s stayed with me for a long time.

From the Wikipedia article:

The validity of this species has been questioned since 1870,[3] and the consensus among modern ornithologists is that it was fabricated.[4]

Boru

[Deesse23]

Elwetritsch

[Rev. Rye]

This is a complicated case, one I’m deadass not sure is a fiction, a cryptid, an extinct species, or what. But it’s one that’s stayed with me for a long time.

From the Wikipedia article:

The validity of this species has been questioned since 1870,[3] and the consensus among modern ornithologists is that it was fabricated.[4]

Boru

True, That is the consensus. Indeed, I suspect it’s most likely not real, hence I posted it in this thread. But there’s just enough compelling potential evidence that there might have been a giant sea eagle, even if, frustratingly, anything concrete is all gone by this point.

[Fake Messiah]

Jesus is a cool fictional animal, but, sorry Christians, Glonk is cooler because doing nothing is more productive than proselytizing.



(Glonk was invented by Ricky Gervais.)

[Mister Agenda]

Boru

Sleipner!