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These are the results of a breeding project I've been working on based on my serial killer norn, Quilla. I have several different offspring of hers included here. Most of them have inherited her killer instinct, but there is a lot of variety in this pack-several colors and different variations I was experimenting with to create a new breed.

Included in this pack are Living Gargoyles (a lot of them ended up being born paralyzed, but I think they look rather cool, like creepy statues, a nice decoration), several killer norns in different colors, Sirens (based on mermaid norns and other aquatic breeds), Dragons (with wings), the Manticores, and some other norns. I also included a text file with additional information on the norns as part of my study.

My personal favorite product of this experiment is the Manticore Norns, which have Quilla's killer instinct, the body of the Beastaur, wings of the Gargoyle or Vampyre, and head of the Draconian.

I will probably be refining and releasing this as a new breed in the future when I have more time, but here's what I got for now.

Edward Topsell in 1607 described the manticore as "bred among the Indians, having a treble rowe of teeth beneath and above, whose greatnesse, roughnesse, and feete are like a Lyons, his face and eares like unto a mans, his eies grey, and collour red, his taile like the taile of a Scorpion of the earth, armed with a sting, casting forth sharp pointed quills, his voice like the voice of a small trumpet or pipe, being in course as swift as a Hart; His wildnes such as can never be tamed, and his appetite is especially to the flesh of man. His body like the body of a Lyon, being very apt both to leape and to run, so as no distance or space doth hinder him, and I take it to bee the same Beast which Avicen calleth Marion, and Maricomorion, with her taile she woundeth her Hunters whether they come before her or behind her, and presently when the quils are cast forth, new ones grow up in their roome, wherewithal she overcommeth all the hunters: and although India be full of divers ravening beastes, yet none of them are stiled with a title of Andropophagi, that is to say, Men-eaters; except onely this Mantichora. When the Indians take a Whelp of this beast, they all to bruise the buttockes and taile thereof, that so it may never be fit to bring sharp quils, afterwards it is tamed without peril."

The Manticore Norns use the Beastaur, Draconian, and Gargoyle Norn sprites, some of them also use sprites from different breeds, I believe the Vampyre Norns and Graveyard Gargoyle (?) breeds... the others also have sprites from various different breeds.