Rookery
A gargoyle rookery is a protected area where gargoyle eggs are stored until they hatch. The rookery of the Wyvern Clan was a cave below Castle Wyvern with at least one entrance that leads into the Castle's courtyard.
Gargoyle eggs hatch in the rookery every 20 years (those years ending in 18, 38, 58, 78 and 98). Each rookery generation is raised together by the Clan. The closest biological relation between two gargoyles in a rookery generation is first cousins. Although none of the gargoyles are biological siblings, they view each other as rookery brothers and sisters. For instance, Goliath, Demona, Othello, Desdemona, Iago, and Hippolyta are rookery siblings, though none of them are closely related. Similiarly, all of these gargoyles look at Hudson as their rookery father because he fathered an egg in their rookery generation. Angela, Gabriel, Ophelia and the rest of the Avalon Clan look at Goliath, Demona, Othello and Desdemona as their rookery parents. Gargoyles tend to choose mates from among their rookery brothers or sisters, though this is not always the case (See Broadway and Angela or Yama and Sora).
In 1998, the Pukhan Clan, the Ishimura Clan, the Xanadu Clan, the Mayan Clan, the London Clan, the New Olympus Clan, and the Loch Ness Clan all had eggs that hatched in their rookeries.
Sometime between 2188 and 2198, eggs from the rookeries of the twelve clans of the Gargoyle Nation would be brought to Queen Florence Island to form the basis of a new clan, the Liberty Clan. On March 21, 2198, the night of the hatching, the Space-Spawn would arrive and kidnap the eggs, as well as the human and gargoyle world leaders.
