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[The most fierce of the old animals was the Hippogriff. Add his demise to the Big Blackie story. Add eventual descent into savagery to Fell Animal description.]
Big Blackie, while confined by the rock Pillory, convinces the new animals that they need a king. His dragons are smart, so they need a king to guide them. Some day Big Blackie will be free, so they will need a champion to fight him.
Animals argue about what their king should be like. The land animals want him majestic, like a lion's mane. The flying animals want him keen-eyed to see everything, like an eagle. The swimming animals want him to steadily increase in size, like the dragons. The burrowing animals want him fierce, so that he could eat the Hippogriff for breakfast.
The Creator tells the animals that he is their king. However, provoked by Big Blackie, they reply that the Creator did not defend the old animals. The Creator sighs and agrees to create the king they are asking for.
All the animals are gathered to one place and the Kingly Griffin is created. He looks like a giant lion with glowing eagle eyes and huge eagle's wings. He roars and flies around. When he lands the earth rumbles. He shakes his mane 3 times, and grows each time as the Fell Animals will (becoming gigantic, gaining a shadow aura, horns and bony protrusions and weakness from aura).
He slowly advances and taunts the animals that none thought to request that their king be protective or good. Fortunately, someone else wanted this. The animals look to the Creator, who acknowledges them with a short jig (the Creator does not bow, even to say "you're welcome".)
The Creator offers the Kingly Griffin a request. "I am much too majestic, fierce, and perceptive. I have already forgotten how to be nice. Any moment I may forget how to be good. I would like to shed the strengths that also make me appear and become dreadful."
The Kingly Griffin is given a squishy thing to bite. Holding on will be painful but grant his spoken wish and his unspoken wishes.
Holds on unexpectedly long. He loses the bony protrusions, horns, aura, and extra size. The glow fades from his eyes. His lion's mane falls off and his lion's head shrinks to become an eagle's head. It becomes smaller. It gains wisdom and long life. Finally it becomes female.
The Creator explains Fell Animals. The animals will get their fierce protectors. But these will eventually be corrupted by their majesty and strength, and become violent savages.
The Creator asks the Griffin if she has any other requests. She is worried she will become corrupt even though she has diminished from her large and terrible form. The Creator makes her unable to lie.
The Creator explains that the desire to eat a Hippogriff for breakfast will remain as a reminder of the animals' folly. Since there no longer is a Hippogriff, the Griffin will be fond of horse flesh, even though it is queen over horses. In exchange, of all the Fell animals the horses will most resist degenerating into savagery. The Griffin also gains horse-like ears, to remind it that it owes its existence to the request of the animals, even if it no longer resembles what was requested.
The Griffin departs to live high atop a mountain in a cave, to ponder all the wisdom newly in its head, and to avoid awkward questions until she learns how to be tactful and humorous while always honest.