Protector

The Protector, known in full as the Jeweled Protector, is a great winged beast of Ionia. It is counted among the region's mythical creatures, a giant avian predator whose nature is described as magical rather than ordinary. Within the bestiary of Ionia it belongs to the class of mythic beings, set apart from the common wildlife of the First Lands. As a carnivore, the Jeweled Protector hunts living prey, and its sheer size raises it far above the everyday birds of the region. Its listing among Ionia's magical creatures ties it to the enchanted character of the land itself, marking it as a being whose existence is bound up with the region's myth rather than its plain natural history. Little else is recorded of the Jeweled Protector beyond its form and its reputation. It remains a minor but memorable figure among Ionia's mythic beasts, a giant winged carnivore known chiefly through legend.