User blog comment:Rocket.knight.777/Ranger suggestion box/@comment-3435913-20140821224011

The Zords are very easy. You could use the five noble animals of the Chinese constellation:
 * The Black Tortoise (and Serpent)/Warrior of the North (Water)
 * The White Tiger of the West (Metal)
 * The Yellow Dragon/Qilin of the Center (Earth)
 * The Azure/Qing (Blue-Green) Dragon of the East (Wood)
 * The Vermillion/Red-Orange Phoenix of the South (Fire)

They all have Wikipedia articles and some have legendary values alongside their origins, as well as corresponding constellations parts that make up the animals in the night sky.

Some brief notes include:
 * The Warrior is sometimes the Turtle with a snake wrapped around it due to the legend of a Tortoise General and a Snake General, who merged together to protect the north.
 * The Dragon and the Phoenix are the creatures equivalent with Yin and Yang (as Longchong and Fenghuang), as well as with the Emperor and Empress.
 * Yellow is considered the imperial colour of the emperor.
 * A Qilin is a mythical beast that has the body of a deer, the head and skin of a dragon, and a ox's lower waist and tail. In certain parts of China and the Indo-China, the Qilin swaps out with the Tiger or the Yellow Dragon.
 * In Japan, wood is replaced with air, metal is replaced with earth and earth is swapped out for void (aether/space).
 * Qing (Azure) is the Chinese colour for blue-green shades as the colours are deemed as a single colour.
 * The Azure Dragon and the White Tiger are believed to be the reincarnations of rival generals, or even archenemies.
 * Each symbol also corresponds with a season: Tortoise (Winter), Dragon (Spring) Phoenix (Summer), Qilin (Late Summer), and Tiger (Autumn).