I am ordinarily able to keep a straight face whilst penning these entries, adventurer, but I cannot help but chortle when I merely envisage a manticore. The head of a man on the body of a lion!! With horns for some reason! It's as though someone was making a bunch of GOOD chimeras and needed to use up the leftover parts. Of course it's easy for me to laugh, safe in my spire - but if you do come across a manticore out in the wilds, it will almost surely kill you - if not with its terrible jaws, then with its poisoned tail. But gods, if you are anything like me, you will perish with a joyous smile upon your lips. Just look at it!! It is pathetic! O, it does fill my heart with mirth.
