Amiraspians are a mysterious humanoid race known to common folk as Griffon Riders. The game mechanics presented above represents an amiraspian militia member or guard.
 An amiraspian appears to be a powerfully built human apart from one obvious difference: it has a single eye set in the centre of its face. This eyeball and its socket are a good half again wider than a regular humanoid of its size, but otherwise look extremely human. A typical amiraspian has tan skin, a sea green eye, and jet black hair with a green sheen resembling a raven's wing. Amiraspians can have any skin tone or hair color possible for a human, plus their hair may have an inhuman green tint or be outright green. Any shade of green found in Nature seems possible: the color of a leaf, frog, treesnake or tropical bird, or even the dark metallic green of a beetle.

Descendants of a Cursed Lineage. The origins of this race is tied to the Amiraspi Cyclops, a monstrous man-eating fey that can only produce more of its kind by cursing a pregnant human woman so they give birth to a cyclops baby. Sometimes these births result in a one-eyed humanoid instead of a fey monstrosity, and these hybrid human-cyclops children became the first amiraspians. Very few modern amiraspians are escapees from a Cyclops Lair, most are descended from amiraspian parents. While amiraspi cyclopes are always male, amiraspians can be female as well. Amiraspian women appear to be rarer than the menfolk, but the one-eyed ladies could just be more reclusive. An amiraspian who marries a human can have offspring who are either fully human or normal amiraspians (equal chance of either), while two amiraspians always have amiraspian children.
 As far as is known, amiraspians cannot have amiraspi cyclops offspring. However, they do have a cautionary tale about a nameless Griffon Rider so wicked and evil his son was born with the Amiraspian Curse. Seemingly normal at first, the child transformed into a Young Amiraspi Cyclops on his thirteenth birthday and devoured his sinful father.

Mountain Fastnesses. Amiraspians live in fortified settlements hidden among the mountains. Each community is largely self-sufficient, meeting most of their needs from nearby mines, alpine meadows and terraced fields. The rocky trails between these villages and towns can be very difficult and hazardous, so the cyclops folk rely on signalling devices and messenger birds for routine communications.

The Griffon Riders. Every settlement of note includes a giant mews that can house two or more griffons. These are ridden by elite champions who play several vital roles in the cyclops folk's society, including dealing with strangers. Intruders to Amiraspian territory may spot flying patrols watching them from griffon back. Many visitors only ever interact with these riders and never meet civilian amiraspians or see their homes. This led outsiders to use "Griffon Rider" as a generic term for Amiraspian, although only a select few amiraspians properly deserve the title. See Amiraspian Griffon Rider for additional information.

(Originally created by Albie Fiore; appeared in White Dwarf Magazine #21 (Oct/Nov 1980) as part of the Fiend Factory mini-module "One-Eye Canyon", edited by Albie Fiore.)