Chimera

Legend credits the sorcerers of First Age Atlantis with making the chimeras, and their extraordinary mix of serpent, lion, goat and dragon supports the old tale, though myth and legend now cloud the truth. A chimera has three heads (dragon, lion and goat) along with a powerful lion's forequarters, a goat's hindquarters, serpent tails and bat-like wings. This gives it a wide range of powers, topped by the dragon head's fiery breath and the ability to burst into flames whenever it likes; the blaze lasts 2-20 minutes, after which it cannot ignite again for up to an hour. The breath reaches 20 feet for 2-12 damage, and while ablaze it burns everything within 5 feet for 1-8 damage a minute. Its wings let it fly.

They are extremely rare, and hardly any reports of them have ever been confirmed. Chiron the Wise preserved one tale, over a hundred years old even then: a winged chimera settled in a wild lair and terrorized a district, carrying off beasts and people to eat and destroying everything in its way, and it routed the local militia several times until a powerful wandering sorcerer drove it off. The grateful people deposed their king for failing them and crowned the sorcerer instead, founding a line of sorcerer-kings who still ruled in Chiron's day.

Chimeras are not intelligent, but they are cunning, nearly impossible to trick or trap, and terrifying in battle. Only the most skilled warriors or magicians have any hope of defeating one.