You have to remember who's responsible for making them: Drool Rockworm.SleeplessOne wrote:I put my suspicions concerning the griffins to SRD in the GI ages ago, and he confirmed that he simply wrote them outta the chrons as they belonged to a different mythology to the one he was creating with TCoTC - the real question is why did he include them in the first place ? I never liked 'em; all of SRD's creatures are his own (apart from Giants, which he completely re-invented anyway); Ur-Viles, Waynhim, Cavewights etc etc - Griffins always seemed outta place to me ...I think Foul stopped making them because they probably kept killing the Urvile Loremasters that tried to ride them, and they made the army restless because they never knew who was going to be swooped up as Griffin chow...
He also made some two headed chickens a one eyed hen and all sorts of other mishmashed oddities. The guy was dimwittedly ambitious and had the sense of art of a drooling rockworm, it's no wonder he came up with a griffin.