Talk:Chimera/@comment-26070146-20140614085248/@comment-6608822-20140717044016

Honestly, this whole post smacks of selective reasoning. You're assuming that anything we don't see in the game doesn't exist in the game world, then trying to constrain the game's magick to real-world laws. We know there's at least one other country in the world (Voldoa, Ser Julien's homeland), which could be home to animals like lions and goats that we never see in Gransys. Likewise, just because we never see harspuds and human children in the game doesn't mean that these things don't exist...and if you try to argue otherwise, I'd love to hear your theories about where Harspud Milk, Harspud Juice, Harspud Sauce, and all the adolescents and adults in the game come from.

Sorcerer players can't create Golems, either. Does that mean that they're naturally occurring monsters? And why should we assume that a creature created by magick wouldn't display new powers that none of its composite animals had? Wouldn't you think that they might suffer some unexpected side effects after being used in a ritual that bathed them in magickal energy? Chimeras are already much larger than all three of their composite monsters combined - no real-world lions or goats come anywhere close to a ton in weight, and the lion and goat make up much more of the creature's mass than the snake does. If the experiments made the animals increase in size and develop new powers, a lion's fur turning black doesn't seem like much of a stretch.

Finally, nothing in your post addresses the multiple personalities of the Chimeras or the guard's comment about Salvation conjuring them up. If you can debunk these points with something other than a list of things we don't see in game world, I'll be more inclined to give your theory some weight.