Trico is the name of the griffin-like creature in The Last Guardian. Large and agile, Trico can climb and swim with great ease. The boy appears to take care of Trico, both by feeding him barrels and removing arrows from his body.

Trico is the Japanese word for 'prisoner', which is fitting given that the first images teased for The Last Guardian featured Trico chained to a hole in the ground. It is also a combination of the Japanese words tori (bird) and neko (cat).

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