So, I am playing a 14th level Solamnic Knight (LG Human Favored Soul 5/Church Inquisitor 1/Ordained Champion 3/Knight of the Crown 1/Knight of the Sword 3/Knight of the Rose 1) in the Age of Mortals campaign, and we are just about to finish the Spectre of Sorrows book. My knight are a low-dex full-plate kind of character, and as there are some major open terrain battles coming up, I feel the need to get myself a flying mount to boost my mobility.
Fortunately, I have the leadership feat, and my leadership score is through the roof. I can get a neutral cohort without having to choose a less powerful one, but going for a chaotic or evil cohort is definately out of the question. My character had to take the Mounted Combat feat as a prereq, but I only have 10 ranks in ride (Total mod is +9), so I wont be negating any hits on it, which means that it needs to be tough. Finally, I will not often require my mount to be able to inflict damage by itself, but it would be nice if it could destroy a few mooks once in a while. Weaker intelligent mounts may be given fighter levels in order to boost their ECL to my cohort level, but nothing else, and maybe even dungeoncrasher levels, but the DM is still considering that one.
I was considering to get a gynosphinx, as I like their high perception skills and their spells, bt they seem awfully fragile for an areal steed. Dragonnes and Crinosphinxes are unfortunately out of my reach untill I hit level 15, but I am not sure wether I can gt the downtime to find a monsterous mount if I don't get one now. Finally, griffons are nixed because the aparently only wants to carry elves in this campaign world, and anything even remotely connected to dragons are also completely unavaliable.
So, in y situation, what would you get?