Skandranon is one of the two fictional protagonists of the Mage Wars series by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon and titular character of two of the three books. He is a gryphon, an intelligent hybrid of both raptor and feline parts, a species artificially created by Urtho, the Mage of Silence. Despite being referred to as 'the Black Gryphon', he is not naturally black, and it is stated within the novel The Black Gryphon that he in fact dyes his feathers. During the events at the end of the book however he is bleached white by magic, leading to the title of the sequel The White Gryphon. In the third book of the series, The Silver Gryphon, he is a secondary character.