Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-74.211.74.127-20140906152637/@comment-13965604-20140909210944

Grimm King wrote: Have you guys ever thought Parrish might be a Garuda? http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Garuda

Garuda are often portrayed as humanoid creatures, also they are the contemporaries of the Phoenix

You have that backwards, Phoenix are the contemporary version of the Geruda, according to the link you provided. But you might be on to something there. I can practically visualize Lydia reading the bestiary out load saying something like 'the Geruda, also known re commonly as the Phoenix...'