If you want the griffon to attack, you must use your action to command the griffon to do so this allows it to use the Attack action as a reaction on your turn. It moves and acts as you direct it, with just three action options (Dash, Disengage, and Dodge). Your griffon obeys your commands to the best of its ability, taking its turn on your initiative. Use the standard griffon stats, but each time your proficiency bonus increases (at 5th level, 9th level, etc.), add +1 to your griffon’s AC, saving throws, and attack bonus, and increase its maximum hit points by 10. Your griffon is a fierce and loyal steed, forming a lifelong bond with you and fighting to protect you in battle. When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain a trained griffon as your mount. The knights put the safety and health of their steeds above all else you are not a griffon knight without a griffon to ride. Griffon knights swear an oath of allegiance to both the order and to their griffon mounts. Led by their doughty dwarven commander Sir Markus Lineguard, the Griffon Knights patrol the Great Northern Road and keep the Free City safe from attackers. These days, most griffon riders are mercenaries and hedge knights, but a few still nobly defend the realm as members of the Order of the Griffon Knights. The griffon riders of Zobeck were devastated during the fall of House Stross, so they now have only a shadow of their former glory. So why shouldn’t it have a life all it’s own? Where to start…

It’s a living, evolving realm where things happen after all. You see, the world has been changing, and oh, the sights to see. Either way, stay-all are welcome! Please, sit and listen to the tales. Or maybe you’ve been around since the beginning. Welcome, friend, to the world of Midgard.

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