Mintspire Windmillers — Flour Milling Griffins Reference Sheet

The story of Mintspire Windmillers

A fictional story inspired by the artwork.

The sails at Mintspire turned beautifully and the flour sack remained empty. All six griffins had checked the hopper. Wheat went in at the top. Somewhere between there and the bag, a whole morning’s flour had simply disappeared. The apprentice arrived for lunch with a white dusting on her shoulders.

She had walked up the back stairs. The senior miller followed her footprints down to the little door beneath the stones. Behind it he found an old flour chute leading sideways through the wall. Its wooden gate had slipped open when the wind shook the building. He could hear somebody laughing on the other side.

In the neighboring bakery a baker stood beneath the open chute with a bowl on his head. He had assumed the millers were playing a birthday trick on him. It was, in fact, his birthday, and he had already mixed the first unexpected bowl of flour into a batch of sweet rolls.

The griffins fixed the gate and helped the baker clear his shelves. Before leaving, the apprentice tied a small bell to the chute. Now the baker rings when he wants a measured scoop. On his next birthday he rang six times, and six millers came down the back stairs carrying butter and jam.

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