Hippogriff
Names: HippogriffHippogriffsGiant Claw
First appears in Book 1: We Are Legion, chapter 27 (Bob – April 2165 – Delta Eridani)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 1: We Are Legion
- Ch 27Bob names a four-legged winged, colour-changing animal on Delta Eridani 4 a hippogriff.
Book 2: For We Are Many
- Ch 19Hippogriffs are Clydesdale-sized, bat-winged reptilian predators that camouflage by changing color and dodge busters with great agility.
- Ch 19The hippogriffs roost on a volcanic island offshore and normally eat seal-like animals; they once drove the Deltans from their original territory.
- Ch 22Only the local hippogriff nest was destroyed; the species survives and could reclaim the Deltans' area.
Connections
- inDelta Eridani 4
- enemy ofDelta Eridani 4 natives
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 19Hippogriff identified
A Deltan forager is carried off by a near-invisible flyer; Bob and Marvin identify it as a giant color-changing hippogriff and trace them to an island rookery.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Hippogriff attack on Camelot
Fourteen hippogriffs attack Camelot; Bob and Marvin's busters kill most, Arnold and the hunters kill one, but three Deltans die.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Hippogriff island destroyed
Bob drops a ship-buster on the hippogriffs' island, wiping it out; the Deltans shelter behind the bluff from the shockwave and falling debris.