...What? |3

Once upon a time these areas were kingdom of the self-conscious hippogriffs. Their species population decreased by time, though, and now this little king will rule their wide areas.

...Until he left to look what's someplace else. His mother and auntie stayed there until the very end.

Zyreus was really adorable child... Fluffy creature with his The Attitude from the very beginning. His mother (see these legs...) was pure blooded hippogriff, not any special looking one.
When Zyreus grew up, his fur became shorter and coarse and he didn't have a horse-like mane like pure-blooded ones...but he got nice feather crown and gorgeous long blue tail.

Coloured pencils. I HAD TO draw this. Zyrre was such a pony when very young. |3 ...Yes. These hippogriff foals looks more like some carnivore youngsters than common long-legged horse foals.
...And more random wannabe facts... Hippogriffs' name style: Male had -us ending and females -a ending... (After all it was a quite logical. For example, hellgriffs' names sounded like some very cliché vampire names... They thought it's clever. ¬_¬ )