Pegasus

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It's a horse with wings. You like horses? You like flying? Yeah, a pegasus has you covered on both accounts.

Originally "Pegasus" was the name of a specific horse, Medusa's rape-child after Poseidon plowed her. His wings were attached to his shoulders, to make it easier for his human riders to actually ride him. Since then the word has become a common noun to refer to any horse with wings, and nowadays the wings are further back, towards the bottom of the ribcage. Requires either magic or a flippant disregard for the laws of physics to work as horses have the aerodynamics of a brick.

Beware of horse apples falling from high altitude.

Warhammer Fantasy

In the wild and weird world of WHFB, Pegasi are natural creatures with connections to the winds of magic, while they look like horses from the outside, on the inside they are completely different, sharing anatomical structures with birds and possessing hollow bones. Despite this, and owing to their innate magical nature, they are fully capable of carrying a heavily armored warrior on their back and flying for over 12 HOURS without visible strain. Also, they are omnivores, feeding on carrion as well as vegetation. The more tainted ones are of course, fully carnivorous possessing horrifying mutations ranging from mouths of full of rending fangs to wings akin to that of bloodthirsters.

Like the Black Dragons, Dark Pegasi are a result of the Dark Elves' usual Dhar magic pumped into a Pegasi at their foalhood. They were mostly favored as steeds by the Druchii Sorceresses but may also be ridden by Dreadlords. Morathi has a Dark Pegasus named Sulephet. Total War: WARHAMMER introduced a regiment of renown called the Raven Heralds, a unit based of an unique End Times dark riders unit called Ravenspears, which in this version their mount were replaced with Dark Pegasi and they use repeater crossbows instead.

There's also a variant of Pegasi in the southland of Arabyan region called Radiant Pegasi where it would absorb and daze any enemies with sunlight. It is unknown if the Arabyan nobles or Bretonnian crusaders tamed them for mounts, or there's an undead variant ridden by the Tomb Kings.

Bretonnian, Imperial knights and nobles alike seek out pegasi for both their majesty and their status as the steeds of powerful people, which often results in conflict between both of these powerful empires. Balthasar Gelt has his pegasus Quicksilver who he likes to armor with metal skin and razor sharp wings with his lore of metal.

Monstergirls

Pegasi monstergirls are rare because the standard approach to doing them, making them into a winged centaur, looks rather overly complicated in the eyes of many.

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