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some of y'all requested Raduga in the cutesy canon style, Gilda is tossed in for scalehails from Griffonstone. Griffonstone fell to poverty following the loss of it's greatest treasure, The Idol of Boreas, and subsequent demise of their reigning king. This loss left their city vulnerable to attacks from prowling beasts and exploitation from neighboring nations, who plundered Griffonstone's mountainside for gold. Most of the griffon population has fled, leaving behind a dilapidated city and a generation with no knowledge how to fix it. The citizens of Griffonstone have regressed somewhat to their nature as solitary predators, though this is changing as Equestrian culture has come to the forefront. More and more griffin villages and settlements are popping up, as the species realizes the benefits of community labor, care, as well as the opportunities for trade with other groups. Still, most griffins don't form close social bonds simply by nature, and look down on pony "friendships" as overly saccharine and even manipulative.Gilda is a combination of eagle and lion. Like all griffins, she is almost exclusively carnivorous, and would hunt by ambushing prey and dragging it off the mountain to plummet to its death, or battering it to death with wings and claws. Hunting nowadays is typically reserved for solitary griffs. Most prefer the ease of purchasing neatly packaged meat from markets, or raising their own flock of chickens, sheep, and goats to subsist on. Like many birds, however, griffons are often lured by bread, and fresh-baked scones have become popular in Griffonstone. Griffs must be careful not to indulge in too many, as their bodies are built to consume lean protein, not carbs. It's very easy for a griffon to become too overweight to fly.is a griffon from the Cawcawsus Mountains. Equuish (English) is not her native language, and she speaks the language in a fractured way, emphasizing consonants and often mixing up her verb conjugation (eg. "I will eating" instead of "I will eat"). This can be frustrating for her, as she's very articulate in her native tongue (Russian).Raduga is a mix of Bearded Vulture and Snow Leopard (melanistic mutation). Griffons can be any combination of predatory bird and cat. Raduga's kind differ from most griffons in that they form intense mating bonds and work together to raise their chicks. Curiously, it is not uncommon for vulture griffs to practice polyandry, where one female is mated to two or more males. Raduga is delighted to find that some ponies practice a similar way of living, via polyamorous "herds". Raduga naturally favors carrion over fresh meat, though her kind subsist largely on bone marrow. Bones make up 80-85% of any Cawcawsus griff's diet. Raduga quite enjoys a decently aged lamb femur paired with a good wine. Her kind are scavengers and prefer finding rotten food and garbage over hunting living animals, though if food is scarce they will hunt, with the tried-and-true method of snatching up a creature and dropping it hundreds of feet to the ground. Griff homes in the mountains often feature a large decorative "bashing rock" for smashing bones against to get at the tasty marrow. Raduga is very perplexed at the lack of proper bashing rocks in pony homes, and is sure to gift one to Vogue as a house-warming present. Silly little ponies.fun facts-Griffons have some of the best eyesight in the natural world. Raduga can read the same magazine Vogue is reading while the pony sits on the other side of the room, all through the reflection in Vogue's glasses.-Raduga’s feathers are naturally white. Her kind stains their plumage with clay and soil to look flashier to potential mates. In bird culture, Raduga is considered one foxy mama-Despite sharp, unwieldy looking talons, Raduga is an excellent seamstress and knits as a hobby. Many griffons have found success in jobs that require fine manual dexterity, which most non-unicorn ponies obviously lack. Griffon-made clothing is well-known for its durability, style, and warmth. Griffons are also known to produce excellent quality arrows, armor, weapons, cutlery, musical instruments, paintings, sculptures, and toys. They have taken to culinary arts with gusto, and their stews, soups, roasts, and barbeques are proving surprisingly popular in Equestria for ponies with daring tastes.-Raduga's parents are morticians. It's how Raduga got her start in fashion, tailoring clothes and applying make-up to corpses to have them looking their best for funerals. Vogue laughed like a nervous dolphin upon learning this fact, and turned green.-Griffons are also one of the few species able to wear wedding rings. The tradition has caught on with unicorns as well.-Griffon chicks are featherless upon hatching, and are the ugliest little vagina-faced tiny things you've ever seen. Within a week, they'll turn into fluffy puffballs with eyes. Some griffons opt to leave their eggs with a community leader, rather than raise the chick themselves. Gilda and Gallus have no known parent, and were instead raised by Grandpa Gruff. This idea comes from , check out her piece on it here:-Like dragons, griffins love hoarding things, the shinier the better. The stereotype is them being greedy for gold, but it varies griffon by griffon. Raduga collects bottlecaps, marbles, and fashion magazines, and Gilda collects vintage Wonderbolt pins.