It’s been a long time since I done this, but we got a bunch of new members so I thought I’d do this, and also go a bit into how can the grifix owners contribute to the lore of the grifixverse 

But first let’s talk a bit about some random lore of the divided grifix!

The Sky Burial

I’m still unsure about the ways the Everfree Village and the Lost Tribe bury the dead, but I know exactly what the divided grifix do!

The Grifix live their life taking from nature and from other animals. Any dead body will help another survive. No corpse goes to waste in the gorge, there is always something that will prosper from the dead. Why should the grifix dead be any different? The Divided Grifix take the deceased ones to a high place with a ceremony, and after that they leave the corpse there, covered in whatever flowers they can find in the rocky gorge. If it’s winter, they put rocks they find pretty on the corpse, and a bit of snow, but they don’t cover it. After that they leave, so the vultures and other animals can gather and feed from the corpse. This way, after taking from nature their whole life, they return what they can back to it, as a way of thanking the world for allowing them to live so far.

You may recognize this practice from the Tibetan buddhists, I always found it such an interesting practice. And I believe it fits the divided grifix very well  (though it’s not exactly the same)

The Camp of the Divided Grifix and the Cave Paintings

I went a bit into how the camp of the divided grifix looks, but I’d like to clarify a bit, especially the cave part, since I never drew it completely.

The Camp is mostly a round area, surrounded by tall walls. Some areas are climbable, allowing the grifix to go up the walls (reminder that a lot of divided Grifix don’t have wings, so they aren’t all capable of flight). On one side, the walls don’t close, leaving a part where they can easily walk out. On the opposite side, there’s a cave. The cave entrance goes somehow laterally, and it’s not very big. Exactly opposite of the wall opening there is Nebula’s tombstone, close to the cave entrance, small colorful flag garlands hanging over it. From the cave there is a small spring flowing out. It’s really small, you can easily step over it and it doesn’t even have to be a big step. It flows from the cave out the wall opening, cutting the camp in two. It’s a good source of water, and it flows throughout the year, rarely ever drying. On the walls of the cave there are cave paintings, done by Grifix throughout the ages. Most of them are paintings of Mother, but there are also paintings of Milky Way, Andromeda, Thunder and sometimes Wolf. Mother is portrayed as the main goddess, of death, Milky Way the secondary goddess, of life. Andromeda is the main antagonist of their mythology, but Milky Way is also often portrayed as a negative character. Thunder is a secondary goddess, her persona being connected to the tree of the universe, being somehow a goddess of faith and destiny, but that doesn’t play a very big role in their culture. Wolf is pretty forgotten in their mythology. He does exist, but his persona is mainly ignored and rarely drawn on the walls. All the stories and paintings originated from Wolf, who decided to paint images of Nebula on the cave walls, and then his son, who decided to paint all his family. However, the stories got altered with the generations, even forgotten sometimes. The Grifix tried to come up with an explanation for the images, so they godified the characters in the pictures, thus creating their own mythology.

PS: there are also crystals deeper in the cave!

Here’s a little illustration of Nebula’s tomb I did a while ago. The cave is right behind those rocks, you can enter from the left, hope this makes it clear eno

Now these are all the lore crumbs I have for now! 

But as always, I am always looking for suggestions, ideas, questions or anything that can help expand the lore! There is no way I could’ve come up with all the grifixverse lore on my own. So I’m telling this to everybody, and especially new owners (cause they might bring some fresh stuff), if you have any lore ideas, questions, anything! Please ask. It helps so much with developing the species! Any random question, even if you don’t find it important, can lead to a lot of new stuff! So don’t be shy! I’m always looking for new traditions, legends, holidays for the Grifix, so these are a few of the things you could come up with! Also, I’m reminding all of you that this is the easiest way to earn rights for the species: helping me expand the lore!

But please, ask any of these things on the discord server, it may bring more people into the discussion.

Now that is all for now, see you next time, and have some wonderful holidays!

This has been first posted on Amino. All the information here will be uploaded on the site eventually, this is just for archive purposes.
Date: 12/25/21