Phoenix

The Phoenix is a large dinosaurian creature that is often found in otherwise-inhospitable areas. They are eaten by Orlesians, but doing so is a great risk as nearly half of their organs are poisonous enough to liquefy one's lungs.^[1]

Background

Orlesians believe the phoenix to be a herald of woe, perhaps because the creatures frequent inhospitable places where sane travelers fear to tread. It may also be because they belch a sort of sulfurous gas that reeks of rotten eggs and ancient peat bog, and flocks of the beasts have a pervasive odor of death about them. Orlesians are not always so metaphorical as they like us to believe.

—From In Pursuit of Knowledge: The Travels of a Chantry Scholar by Brother Genitivi

Researched: Damage Against Beasts Increased

—From Codex entry: Phoenix