My Beastiary

I love mythological creatures.

This is the creature one of my characters ride (the Prince/Captain of the army). It is pure white, just like in the picture. And in my world, it is the only one of its kind.

My question is - what's it called? Is it a winged-unicorn? Or a horned pegasus?

Since Pegasus is the actual name of the Greek mythological winged horse, is there a name for the average winged horse? My other characters ride winged-horses (without the horn) which I call pegasus in the singular and pegasoi in the plural -- does this work? Sound dumb?

All the pegasoi are the same, though they have different markings, but they are a metallic amber with rubescent flecks and gold manes and when they are in flight, they conjure the illusion of flaming horses galloping across the sky.

My bad guys ride Khimara (yes, almost the correct pronunciation for the Greek Chimera & Khimari is the plural). They are mostly muted colors - brown, mahogany, black - and are horses with lion heads and serpent tails.

I also have winged-centaurs with scorpion tails, a musimon, breathing gargoyles, a mysterious 7-horned creature, a leviathan (sea serpent), and evil fanged-frogs. (I may have more, but i can't think of them off the top of my head.

My villain is obsessed with snakes -- he has carvings of them everywhere, and I've thought of giving him one as a pet, but since Rowling did that already, I'm hesitant to copy. Thus my villain only has his crow (and those pesky fanged-frogs that his mistress insisted he needed to bring life to his garden -- he'll be trying to scheme evil plots and their croaking about drives him mad).