The Griffin Patriarch is a mythical creature in a Total War Saga: Troy, part of the Mythos Expansion Pack.
The Mythic Expedition for the Griffin Patriarch will take the player to the boundaries of the known world – a gruelling journey into unknown lands, and a challenge at the end of it where the foe is completely at ease on the battlefield.
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For a Griffin, it is easy to look down upon everyone and everything. From the vantage point of the deep sky, everything is minuscule, everyone a piece of prey. As the undisputed animal king of earth and sky, Griffins defer only to gods, and even pull Apollo’s chariot when he voyages out from Olympus.
Griffin relationships with humans are complicated. Those that believe in their existence at all are more taken in by tales of the vast amounts of gold that griffins bring back from the threshold of the Underworld, and some insist they feed the nuggets to their young.
Appropriately, such people consider it a waste of perfectly good gold, and take care to redress it. The only ones that are capable of this, however, are the Arimaspoi, a tribe that shares the lands of the griffins, the only ones the griffins are willing to coexist with, albeit in a state of unrelenting rivalry.