I had to look it up:

Giraffe
Camelepard in Greek (Septuagint), also used in English for giraffe (camelopard).
Ditza in Aramaic (see Targum on Proverbs 5:19).
Zemer in Hebrew.
Zarafa (from which the English word is derived) in Arabic (Saadia; Ibn Janach; Radak, Sherashim; Shiltey Gibborim 53).

Why don't you download the Bestiary from Atlas Games' site?

There are quite a few animals with stats in there, you can probably modify one of them to form stats for a giraffe.

Why would a giraffe have any vis in it? It's not a magical animal. Horses don't have vis in them, neither do sheep. Why a giraffe?

"Why would a giraffe have any vis in it? It's not a magical animal. Horses don't have vis in them, neither do sheep. Why a giraffe?"

Because they are very exotic creatures - and to medival europe as magical as a cockatrice...

"Because they are very exotic creatures - and to medival europe as magical as a cockatrice..."

I'm not an expert on history or biology, but how many giraffes were there in medieval Europe? I've always thought it was a species that lived on the savannahs of Africa.

I believe they are mentioned in several bestiary of the day, probably translated from Greek, Roman, or Arabic sources. The greeks, most likely, learned of them from the Egyptians, who learned of them from the Nubians, whose empire the egyptians conquered...

Steve

general rule-of-thumb for beasties is:

most examples of (what we think of as) mundane beasts (beasts which live in large numbers) are indeed entirely mundane, with no powers and no vis in their bodies;
of those beasts, a small fraction are special "beasts of virtue", or such: they have a Might score, supernatural powers, and leave vis behind.

As another rule-of-thumb, 1 pawn of vis per 5 Might is about the norm...