When King Grover, and the Idol of Boreas arose, the Ironclaws were unsure of how to react to this upstart griffon who sought to make himself as king of all griffons. But the patron of the Ironclaw clan, Warlord Gyr Ironclaw, intended to find out and he took along three hundred of his strongest warriors with him to meet this so called king.

Gyr was known to be a vicious warrior, said to be cursed with the Blood Craze that was said to infect his clan. When he arrived to Grover's court, many warriors feared what the outcome would be. But the meeting went differently then most griffons had expected, even the Ironclaw warriors.

The warriors had expected for Gyr to take the Idol for himself, as was their nature as griffons, and proclaim himself king. In fact, many warriors and even some allied clans had made mention that Gyr should. But Gyr ignored these and instead spoke with King Grover alone, in the room where the Idol stood.

No one knows what the two griffons spoke of in those halls, for none had been allow privy to the knowledge. But when Gyr, and Grover to the surprise of his warriors emerged, they could see a look of pride and even contentment upon the patron of Ironclaw that had not been seen before. It was even more shocking, before all those standing in the castle, that Gyr Ironclaw, bent talon to King Grover and swore unending fealty to the king. If the warriors of Ironclaw were surprised, they were more so when Gyr demanded that every warrior and later every clan member swear fealty to the king. For the first time in their history, the Ironclaws had allowed themselves to bend to another griffon not of their own, and willingly.

In the years to follow, the Ironclaws would rise to become one of the most loyal of clans to the king, and the Kingdom of Griffonstone. It was grandson of Gyr, Lord Peregrine, who became one of the first leading generals of the united griffon military of griffonstone, with the Ironclaws at the forefront of the army. Their warriors even acted as bodyguards for the king, and the clan even had daughters and sons married with the royal family; though nothing that could give them any sort of claim to the throne in those days.

It was in those golden days that the clan grew powerful in the nobility, becoming one of the Great Clans of Griffon kind. But the golden days were not to last, as is the case with all golden ages.

It was during the reign of King Guto, that Griffonstone fell. When the monster Armimaspi came to take the idol, and in the fight to drive off the thieving monster that the current patron of the Ironclaw clan, Lord General Kestrel, fell. The loss of both the Idol, and their patron, was a severe blow to the moral of the Ironclaws. Like all the griffons and clans of the kingdom, the Ironclaws fell into a state of shattered hope and left Griffonstone, taking all their wealth and belongings and returning to their ancestral holdings near the mountains in the south.

It was in this time that the Ironclaws had seen just how much had changed in those days, for the holdings of King Guto had slowly began to lessen on the griffons in the south, and the rise of a new power had began. The Republic of Aquilla.

Needing something to fight for, now that the Idol was lost and their king broken, the newest patron of the Ironclaw clan, Lord Amur, began making work to ally his clan with the powers of the new republic. It took long work, but the history of their clan and the fact that the Ironclaws had, even while still serving the king in Griffonstone, had kept some of their clan in the south in their ancestral home, the Ironclaws soon found themselves in a role that was familiar to them, serving predominately in the military of the Republic of Aquilla.

Though they had found new power and position, the Ironclaws still held a great deal of loss over the Idol of Boreas, something that still bothers them today in the modern times. They feel as if they had failed their king and the empire of Griffonstone, and this feeling of failure pushed them to greater heights to prove themselves and to never fail again. But just as the golden age of griffons ended in Griffonstone, so too was the golden days of the clan Ironclaw to end one day.

But it would not be by an outside force. No, never to a clan that prided itself on the iron it claimed was in its blood. No their fall would come from within, from one of their own patrons. It was during the Reign of Ospery Ironclaw the 34th, otherwise known to Ironclaws as Ospery the Mad or the Insane Ironclaw