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Alanai

Name: Alanai
Gender: Mare
Age: 10 years
Species: Unicorn
Most Likely Found: The Great Grass Plain
Abilities: Warrior
Family: Foster Father - Andramalech, Blood Dam (biological mother) - Swiftwater (deceased), Blood Sire - Jest, Brother - Kalul, Mate - Delita, Children: Son - Sunriver
Other Relations: Possibly...
Description: Her main coat color is a dark, dark blue. Her head and legs fade to a an even darker color, near black. There are appaloosa spots on her lower half (flanks, spine, tail, etc.), and there is a dusty plum purple star figure at the base of her horn. Her horn and hooves are all black, as is her beard, feathers, and ear tufts. Her eyes are the same dusty plum as her star, and her mane and tail are a dustier purple than the spots on her rump. On her right flank there are many, many light purple scars.
Personality: Brutal and cold. She is a cold-blooded killer, and, in my favorite words, is bad to the bone. She is very rebellious to Andramalech, refusing to call him "lord" as most of the others do. She doesn't bow to him, either. Actually, she bows to no one. Recently, she has developed the horrid "feelings" she tried so long to suppress. She loves Delita and Kalul, and cares deeply for Cescerano. She is even beginning to care for the foals still left in Andra's oh-so-loving care.
Background: She is a member of Andramalech's band (she calls him Andra just for kicks), and bears the scars on her right flank put there by him to make her feel inferior to himself. It worked for a while, but quickly hardened her to the thought of any love from another. Yet she remained with Andra and the band until just recently, when she was sent on a mission with Delita to track down Casus, their run-away foster sister, and return her to the band. Delita and Alanai grew close and, with their first taste of freedom, rebelled. They let Casus escape into the heart of the plains and are now plotting with Kalul and Ces on how to take Andra down.

Kalul

Name: Kalul
Gender: Stallion
Age: 13
Species: Unicorn
Most Likely Found: The Far Plains
Abilities: Warrior
Family: Sister - Alanai, Foster Father - Andramalech, Blood Dam - Swiftwater (deceased), Blood Sire - Jest, Mate - Cescerano, Children: Daughter - Shumaa (not his by birth),
Other Relations: Description: He's a very large stallion with a bright bluish-indigo base coat. He has a white flame-print muzzle, a white stocking on his front right leg, and a jagged-swirl print of white along his spine and flanks. His fetlock feathers are black (except where the stocking is), and his mane, tail, and beard are all a dark steel gray. His horn is black, as are all of his hooves except for his back right one, which is parti-colored black and white. He has many scars on his body--the main ones are a small pucker on his cheek, one down his neck, another down his front left leg, and many, many scars all down his left flank. His eyes are a bold blood red.
Personality: He was recently a cruel, vicious unicorn with a heart of ice and a gaze as cold and unfeeling as stone. He was favored by Andramalech because of his dead-pan, uncaring nature and unwavering loyalty. He was willing to carry out any order. However, that icy heart has recently thawed. He often finds himself feeling vulnerable and out of place, not quite sure what to do with himself. But he is still a warrior, still an assassin. Yet now he fights not out of loyalty, but for love. Kalul protects his new family with his life.
Background: ne of Andramalech's broken band, he is a hardened warrior used to fighting. Because of his size, he is greatly feared among his brethren. (And being the brother of Alanai doesn't exactly help.) He was recently sent after Cescerano to return her home, but found himself unable to do so.

Andramalech caused all of the scars I mentioned in his description. Also, he, Delita, Cescerano, and Alanai are now rising up against Andra.

Dancer

Name: Dancer (Truename: Ebondancer)
Gender: Mare
Age: 8 years
Species: Unicorn
Most Likely Found: The Great Grass Plains
Abilities:
Family: Sire - Nightcloud, Dam - Ashendance
Other Relations: Alma's Stars
Description: A pale rose coat which fades to pale cream, or bone white, on the underbelly. Her mane, tail, horn, legs, muzzle, etc. (all her dark points) are ebony. She has a pretty dancer's frame, though quite lithe from running across the plains. There is a small, crescent scar upon her front left cannon, a memory of days long passed and of a promise soon to be fufilled.
Personality: Dancer is a unique mare. She is very intelligent and enjoys listening to others and offering aid to others when it comes to solving problems or settling disputes. She has changed very little over the years. Not much personality-wise has she evolved from the bright young filly she was 6 years ago. She is very active, always hopping from place to place, since there is no one close to her to settle down with. She has a dark side--one that rarely emerges--but a darker side nonetheless.
Background: At the age of 4 1/2, Dancer left her dam and older sister, Smokestep, to travel alongside her sire, Nightcloud. The two pale look-a-likes have since gone their seperate ways, though they occasionally see each other. Dancer has traveled to the Hallow Hills a few times in the past to greet her Smokestep and keep a lasting relationship between the two of them, but they haven't seen each other in 2 years.

Irridence

Name: Irridence
Gender: Mare
Age: 17
Species: Unicorn
Most Likely Found:
Abilities: A Plainsdweller and seductress
Family: Half-sister--Idrial, Children: Daughters - Aurelia, Mauriana
Other Relations:
Description: Dusty purple roan, her roaning a pale cream lilac in color with faint lilac appaloosa spots from the center of her underbelly to her flanks. Brown eyes with a light lilac/gray horn. She has a very beautiful, lean body and a long, silky mane and tail.
Personality: A natural-born seducer, Irridence knows she's beautiful, often using her charms and looks to lure stallions into her grasp, only to push them away the minute they fall in love with her. However, with age comes wisdom and all that, and Irridence is beginning to find life alone is not all it's cracked up to be.
Background: Irridence has a long and complicated past when it comes to stallions--first she was a wild seductress, never settling down for longer than a few suns before moving on. Then she tried to make the stallion Goldwater (retired Losmios character) fall in love with her--that failed. Again, she became a seductress, until she met a young desert stallion named Deneskin and fell in love. Sadly, her heart was broken when he fled back to his homeland. It has been nine years since his departure, and she is long over her infatuation and what she calls her "foolish filly dreams," but the seductress has never been the same since.

Aurelia

Name: Aurelia
Gender: Mare
Age: 9 years
Species: Plainsdweller
Most Likely Found:
Abilities:
Family:Dam - Irridence, Sister - Mauriana, Sire - Deneskin
Other Relations:
Description: Lilac/rose roan with faint light-rose appaloosa spots from her belly to her flanks. Milky-white mane and tail. Hazel eyes. A pretty, lean, long-legged mare.
Personality: She is very much a homebody and caretaker, though she often wishes she wasn't. Lia is often shy and rarely outspoken. Traveling with a dam and sister for seductresses has made her feel inferior and plain, though she is nothing of the sort. Her outer meekness can be deceiving, however; only a mare with a strong voice and mind could keep Mauriana in check the way Lia does.
Background: She was born from a tryst between Irridence and a desert stallion, Deneskin, whom she has and never will meet. (see Irridence's bio for more info)

Mauriana

Name: Mauriana
Gender: Mare
Age: 7 years
Species:
Most Likely Found:
Abilities: Plainsdweller and Seductress
Family: Dam - Irridence, Sister - Aurelia, Mate - Ryegrass, Children: Daughter - Unnamed (stillborn)
Other Relations:
Description: Base color fades from a dark lilac/maroon to a hot pink at her belly, to a pale pink/white at her legs. A gorgeous dancer's frame, built for grace and beauty, though not necessarily desert-swift speed. Light brown eyes. She's heart-stoppingly beautiful and she knows it.
Personality: Ana is Aurelia's complete opposite. She was raised by a seductress and can give Irridence a true run for her money, so to speak. Though she is barely more than a half-grown, she has proven herself able to seduce stallions of all ages.
Background: Mauriana's sire was a stallion Irridence met at a longdance. She has never met him before and couldn't care less about him. She has seduced every stallion she has come into contact with, and has even succeeded in stealing a few of Irridence's, as well. The only stallion she failed with was the one she wanted the most.

Ryegrass

Name: Ryegrass
Gender: Stallion
Age: 8 years
Species: Plainsdweller
Most Likely Found:
Abilities:
Family: Dam - Geera, Sire - Moonshade, Sister - Fallgrass, Mate - Mauriana
Other Relations:
Description: A grass-green dun with pale cream markings and bright orange eyes. Quite handsome in his own right. Not bulky or small, but about average in build.
Personality: He is a very joyful character, always ready with a smile and a laugh. He enjoys the occasional long-dance and romp in the grasses with the ladies, but never stays with one longer than a night or two. Instead, he faithfully remains with Aurelia and Mauriana.
Background: Ryegrass met Aurelia and Mauriana, "his girls," at a longdance when he was two years old. Their dams were dancing with stallions, leaving their foals in the care of elders nearby. When a couple of colts began picking on Aurelia for her unusually long legs, he stepped in forced them to back down with a few terse words and well-aimed kicks. Aurelia and Mauriana then invited him to play tag with them, and they have been inseparable ever since. When Ryegrass's dam died from illness less than a year later, the three split from Irridence and traveled the Plains, growing and learning together. They have only recently rejoined Irridence's company, much to the older mare's reluctant welcome.

Rio- Wartime

Name: Rio, Truename: Maginot --- Pronounced: "Ma-jee-no" with a soft j
Gender: Stallion
Age: 25 years
Species:
Most Likely Found:
Abilities: Former Vale warrior, now Renegade
Family: Dam - Rusalla, Sire - Keeng, Cousin - Lilianne, Shoulder-friend - Sneek
Other Relations:
Description: A big, bold-bodied blue roan rabicano. He has striking pale blue eyes and a deep, resonating voice that was once remarked to as sounding like thunder rumbling in the distance. His horn is half white, half navy blue and somewhat dull.
Personality: A natural-born fighter, Rio is a ruthless menace in battle. However, ever since he ran Renegade, he has refused to engage in any fights or sharpen his horn. Still, his protective stallion instincts are strong, causing him to constantly be on guard against himself and his "filthy warrior emotions."
He detests anything related to Vale or Hills to the point of violence (which makes him even more paranoid about himself... XD). Yet he cannot seem to let go of a few of the Vale traditions he was raised with (such as: he doesn't participate in longdances, and he still bows his head instead of his body).
He is a quiet, noble being who is just trying to escape the world. (Which means he broods a lot. XD)
Background: Rio was born and raised in the Vale under warrior parents, and eventually became a warrior himself. He was so dedicated to his warrior duties, he became one of Korr's wolves during that horrible winter, carrying out his King's demands without question. However, after Korr fled the Vale, he began to look around him at the destruction and carnage he and his fellow wolves had wraught; he also saw what Korr, a being he had idolized from foalhood, had done to the herd. So, while Prince Jan left to find Korr, he gave up the ghost and went Renegade. His parents--being dedicated Korr followers and warriors to the core-- were disgusted with Rio and disowned him, claiming if he ever dared return, they'd skewer him alive.
Rio never returned.
Upon the Plains, he encountered his foalhood shoulder-friend, Sneek, who had run Renegade years before. They now travel the Plains together.

Sneek

Name: Sneek, Truename (which he has all but forgotten): Skynellus
Gender: Stallion
Age: 24
Species:
Most Likely Found:
Abilities: Renegade Plainsdweller
Family: Mate:Dam - Mali, Sire - Gratus, Shoulder-friend - Rio, Mate - Kyla, Children: Son - Dex, as well as a few other foals floating around the Plains he doesn't know about
Other Relations:
Description: A lean, handsome stallion with a pumpkin-orange and deep burgundy roan coat and striking yellow eyes. He has a soft tenor voice with just a slight rasp that never fails to enthrall the ladies.
Personality: A happy-go-lucky stallion by nature, Sneek is just opposite enough from Rio to keep their relationship interesting. Whereas Rio is quiet and brooding to the point of Sneek's annoyance, Sneek is boistrous and jubilous. He is a prankster and a daredevil, and is very popular with the ladies. However, his Vale-warrior upbringing grounds him when needed; therefore, he can be serious when the occasion calls for it.
He is loyal to all he calls a friend--especially Rio, whom he is fiercely protective of. He also loves to spar, and is very adventurous.
Background: Sneek was raised as Rio was--with warrior parents who raised him to follow in their hoofsteps. Unlike Rio, however, he was never a fan of the Vale rules and regulations. When he was four years old, he ventured out of the Vale into the Pan Woods and encountered a beautiful young Plains filly who stole his heart. Her coat was a stunning hue of so many colors thrown into one, so unlike those duller, more subdued pelts found in the Vale, and he was mesmerized by her foreign beauty and personality. The two of them met secretely for over a year before his sire, Gratus, discovered them and "disposed of the Renegade menace to their culture and ways."
Horrified and heartbroken over his sire's deeds, Sneek fled to the plains and the memories of the filly he loved. He embraced the Plainsdwellers' culture, changing his name and abandoning the Vale way of life. Many years later, he stumbled onto Rio, who informed him he had recently run Renegade, as well. They now travel the plains, always together as shoulder-friends once more.
But throughout his travels, Sneek heard tales of a beautiful mare with a pelt of so many hues she rivaled the northern night sky. He began to wonder if his father had really killed his love, as he had claimed.
Sneek now stalks the Plains under the pretense of adventure, searching out his beloved sky-mare in hopes that she survived his sire's wrath so many years ago.

Lilianne- Wartime

Name: Lilianne, Truename: Liliranna
Gender: Mare
Age: 21
Species:
Most Likely Found:
Abilities: Vale warrior
Family: Dam - Laya, Sire - Tryan, Cousin - Rio
Other Relations:
Description: A mulberry varnish roan with dark speckles. Mulberry brown eyes. Her tail is a darker red, as is her fetlocks, ear tufts, beard, and the parts of her mane that touch the darker part of her face.
Personality: Very headstrong and opinionated, Lili finds it hard to make friends in the Vale. Yet she is a warrior through and through and obeys her queen and stand-in leaders without question. She hates Plainsdwellers with a burning passion.
Background: Her headstrong personality and drive to be the best quickly moved her up to warrior status. She was well-respected by all in the Vale, but never befriended. When her cousin, Rio, ran renegade, she became an outcast even moreso, as most watched and waited for her to take one wrong step so that they could condemn her to having the same thoughts as him. Yet she never took a wrong step. Instead, she became a seasoned warrior well-known for her hate of the Plains and all who occupied them. She hates them so much that she refused to fight alongside a plainsdweller during the Battle of Endingfire, choosing to step aside as a wyvern attacked the stallion instead of aiding him.

Yet now the mare finds herself once more planning for war, this time with the gryphons. She has been sent by her sire to seek out her lost cousin, Rio, and bring him home to fight alongside them; for though Rio's own parents--Keeng and Rusalla--have disowned him, Tryan and Laya both realize that they will need every fighter they can get. Now she must step out of her comfort zone and embrace the culture she so very much despises in order to bring her renegade cousin home.

Thunderjam - Retired

Name: Thunderjam
Gender: Stallion
Age: 12 Years
Species: Unicorn
Most Likely Found: On the Great Grass Plain.
Abilities: Warrior, Plainsdweller.
Family: Dam - Ava, Sire - Althien, Sister - RainheartDam - Ava, Sire - Althien, Sister - Rainheart
Description: dark navy blue coat, black mane, tail, and beard, black hooves and horn, black eyes, white blaze down his face and over his muzzle, and white stockings on his back legs.
Personality: A very out-going unicorn, Thunderjam is a wonderful character to be around. He's a deadly opponent in battle, though he tries to avoid such a thing at all costs. Born in the Vale, Thunderjam has taken to traveling the Plains in search for adventure.
Background:

Syfka - Retired

Name: Syfka
Gender: Mare
Age: 4 Years
Species: Unicorn
Most Likely Found: On the Great Grass Plain.
Abilities: Warrior, Plainsdweller.
Family: Dam - Darkmane, Sire - Nightstep, Brother - Gail (deceased)
Description: Lithe, petite form, pale golden-yellow body, black ring around right eye. Black ears and black hooves, save for the front left, which is the same color as her body. Golden-yellow mane, tail, beard, and feathers, all with black tips. A black horn, golden eyes, and a single black stocking on her left front leg.
Personality: She is kind and loving but very shy at first. When she makes friends she livens up and can be very talkative. After witnessing the death of her older brother, Gail, Syfka became timid and even more shy. She left her band and traveled the plains alone, only to come across an equally skittish Da stallion. She befriended and quickly fell in love with Char'ld, and was able to witness him getting his horn at the Mere of the Moon.
Background:

Kiraz - Retired

Name: Kiraz
Gender: Mare
Age: 16 Years
Species: Unicorn
Most Likely Found: On the Great Grass Plain.
Abilities:
Family: Dam - Milsean (deceased), Sire - Nathair, Mate - Kurov, Children: Twin sons - Zethyr and Irrilyth
Description: Lithe runner's build, dusky plum coat, light pink feathers, horn, hooves, and beard, mane, tail, and eyes
Personality: Very timid and afraid, Kiraz has long-since learned not to trust anyone. Dispite this, she is very calm around Kurov, the stallion who befriended her. When around him, she acts like the filly she once was, before her sire drove her to a fear-filled "madness."
Background: Born into a slave herd on the Salt Flats, Kiraz just recently escaped and, chased by her former herd, stumbled onto the Plains with great relief. Her first meeting with one of the Free People was a stallion named Kurov (sticks_n_stones32).

Flicker - retired

Name: Flicker
Gender: Stallion
Age: 15
Species:
Most Likely Found:
Abilities: Plainsdweller with an uncanny ability to predict the weather
Family: None
Other Relations: None
Description: Tri-colored in blue/grays, duns, and charcoals. Reddish-yellow eyes. Mane and tail are a pale creamy gold that fades to charcoal at the tips. His horn is parti-colored gold and black; hooves all black. Gray stocking on all four legs. There are various scars over his body due to a pard attack, and his tangled mane and tail are accentuated by red and gold hawk feathers. He has a broken light-blue stripe running down his face.
Personality: Flicker is a laid back, somewhat giddy stallion. He is very good with foals and younger half-growns. Though slightly spacey most times, he has a kind heart and a loving, trusting soul.
Background: Flicker is the stallion who saved Shy'ah's life as a young filly, and who took her in during her time of need. He nursed her back to health and allowed her to cling to his side for nearly three years. Since Shy'ah was left mute by her sickness, and he didn't know her name, he called the purple and silver filly Shadow. After traveling together for a good many moons, a storm--powerful enough to flood the plains--swept through and Flicker took shelter under an overhang, awaiting the return of the young storm-running mare. The flood swept through where he stook and carried him off. By the time Shy'ah returned, the flood had moved on to lower ground and Flicker was nowhere to be found. She searched for him for many days, but didn't find him; she soon declared him dead. A few miles away from the last place Shy had looked, Flicker pulled himself out of the water and--weakened by the beating of the river--went in search of a healer. It was on that journey that he was attacked by an inexperienced pard, the maker of the scars that now line his skin. He eventually came out the victor, chasing the grasscat off, and found himself one to heal his numerous wounds. He still wanders the Plains today, keeping a lookout for the young mute filly he had grown to love--partly as a friend, and partly as a daughter.