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Chimera Upgrade

@Nick3069
The Chimera is identified as female, yes, but its component animals use the features of their male species in most artwork of it. I'd chalk it up to creative license rather than being accurate, so there's no point in thinking on it too critically. Besides, the Chimera being a hodgepodge creature answers its own issue of gender, if you consider that, while its heads are male, its genitalia might not be.

looks like the chimera & gore chimera from dragon's dogma haha nice

@OneShotMaster
You've made me realize something though, a lion's mane is also typically a distinctive male feature, yet most (if not all) depictions of the chimera have a mane. Could it be that both male and female European lions had manes? Interesting...

@OneShotMaster
Actually, no. All the ancient Greek art I've seen depicts the chimera's goat horns pointing backwards and they are either straight, have a slight downward curve, or are twisted like a black buck's horns. I have never seen ancient Greek art of the chimera with ram horns. Ram horns are a distinctive male trait and the chimera is clearly identified as female, so I don't see why it would have ram horns.

Also, changing the horns on the chimera would be a lot of work, because it doesn't have any attachpoints.

@Nick3069
In ancient greek mythology, the Chimera had more of curly rams' horns than the horns in AOE:EE

I think if you took the gold from Petsuchos' back (it has player colour, too) and wrapped it around each of the three heads as a collar/necklace that might look really cool :)

@Nick3069
Also a good job. Thanks

I see, sounds good. You could have both though :) a showy demon :))

The idea here was to make them more demonic because the upgrade refers to Typhon, a demonic, winged giant feared by the Olympians, which also happens to be the father of the Chimera and most other Greek monsters like the Hydra and Cerberus.

*or on the Petsuchos, which is also full of gold