While the trilogy is bad enough to dismiss this as more of Anderson's bad writing this kind of thing happens more than you think in real world palaeontology, especially if you count young and adult dinosaurs being mistaken for separate species, and plenty of Dinosaurs known to be fake still show up in fiction. What's interesting about this is the trilogy also stated the Manticore was a supposedly extinct beast that was since proven to be an archeological hoax/mistake that people still thought was cool enough to name things after anyways. They are sometimes used as steeds both by Chaos Champions and by Druchii leaders - indeed, the Druchii revere the manticore as an animal sacred to Khaine, such is the beast's love of slaughter.Īn Imperial Star Destroyer named Manticore shows up in the Jedi Academy trilogy (which sucks) aping the earlier established ISD Chimaera's name. In the Warhammer Fantasy setting, manticores are flying, leonic beasts associated with Chaos.
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