Vingkha Biyar

Be careful with what you wish for, the Vingkha Biyar just might hear you and decide to make you pay for it.

— Depavatan saying

Summary

The legend of the Vingkha Biyar tells of a being a slender body, huge clawed paws, scruffy fur, a huge head with two horn along it's snout and a mouth filled with sharp fangs. On it's back are two leathery wings that lets it perch up in the trees.
According to the stories this creature is able to grant wishes to anyone that wants to, but the price for this gift is a living sacrifice. Depending on how big the wish is, it requires a bigger sacrifice and many of the legends tell of how the Vingkha Biyar loves to take a human sacrifice for its services.
The creature is generally seen as a tricky one, and simply uttering your wish in its presence will make it grant it, and taking the payment no matter what you try to do.

Historical Basis

There has been a lot of research into whether or not there has ever been a creature similar to the Vingkha Biyar and the common consensus is that it most likely is a fictive version of the Spiral Bear with wings. Depending on where you hear the stories though there is also some that think it might be some kind of catlike creature instead, or simply a huge dragon that learnt to talk.
The granting of wishes is a common theme in a lot of myths and religions, usually reserved for gods and demons. This kind of costly wishes tend to be made by creatures deemed as evil but even if the Vingkha Biyar is feared, it is not seen as inherently evil, you just have to know how to deal with it properly.

Variations & Mutation

Some form of this myth is common all through the Southern Union and its jungles. It is one of those myths that seem to always have been around and no one is really sure where it came from or when, although drawings that could possibly be of a Vingkha Biyar has been found in the ancient ruins of Depavata and Axarsú.
The appearance of the beast varies from place to place. The most common variations from the one described above is that it instead is a feline creature, how many horns it has and what kind and number of wings.
It also varies a bit how expensive the wishes are, in some places only requiring animal sacrifices, while in some others it instead always takes humans as payment.

The most common depiction of the Vingkha Biyar.
This kind of images can be found since ancient times and in everything from religious inscriptions to children's stories.