Griffon

Very few griffons can talk and nearly none of them are telepathic. Some Caelan used to ride griffons back in the days of yore, and some knights ride griffons. Some griffons are kept like attack dogs, like horse mounts, or raised domestically as pets, the last one being quite rare. While there are instances of some incredibly friendly wild griffons, some of them even protecting villages, many wild griffons are dangerous if provoked, since they have territory to defend. Rabid griffons and griffons that lose their territories and families -especially to unnatural causes- will take to raiding homes and lands of folk, killing and eating things here and there as they go, making the transition from the animal category to the monster category.

Demigryph
Griffons without wings, they bound across open spaces to hunt down prey with their sharp beaks. While knights also have been known to ride these, they are not quite as magnificent as regular griffons. They are also more aggressive in the wild.

Gryph-chargers
Some way, somehow, someone managed to convince a demigrphy and a horse that breeding was a good idea. And it... Somehow worked? Grphy-chargers have the head and short mane of a griffon, scaled frony legs with claws, and hooved rear legs. Their torso, back legs and hind quarters are very similar to a horse, and are usually white or dull blue with brown stripes. Their tails are long and brown in the beginning but blue at the ends.