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Species: Mesfes (equine)
Subspecies: Kelephan pony
Breed: Highborne (elven pony) , Chaimoi (dwarven pony) , Diggere (gnome
pony) , Rokey (gem pony)
HIGHBORNE - elven breed
| SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
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4 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
-2 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
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Highborne symbol |
Lifespan: 25-30yo
Life cycle: nursing foal 3-6months, weanling to 1yo, yearling to 2yo, adolescent to 3yo, adult till 20, senior 20+
Breeding details: Chance for twins 70+, no more than two foals at
once
Extra pictures for proper offspring growth: Foal with at least one of parents, playing foal, foal with blue toy
Extra pictures for proper offspring growth: Foal with at least one of parents, playing foal, foal with blue toy
History:
Is shrouded in unknown. It's unclear what is origin of highbornes. There's speculation that highborne ancestry are forest krofi horses, but there's not much evidence to it. It's highly possible that elven breeders know origin of their ponies, but they keep the secret well guarded. Most spread theory is, that elves stole highborn ancestors from dwarves, thus they keep it secret and dwarves do not speak of it, as it's great shame. This theory also is reason, why are highbornes classified as "kelephan ponies" since Kelepha is only continent where wild ponies are found. Even though highbornes don't have cleft hooves like rest of kelephans.
Domestic behavior:
Highbornes don't have wild behavior, because they are all domesticated. It's safe to say that elves did some highly sophisticated selective breeding, maybe with addition of some unnatural genetic tweaking, because they removed a lot of horse behavior traits and made highbornes into something after their own taste. Highbornes are fashionable. It seems that unlike regular horses highbornes see all colors and there is combination that they love or hate (They can be very hard to be saddled or bridled if they don't like colors of equipment). One color all highbornes absolutely adore is blue. The adoration is performed mostly by rubbing head at blue items or taking blue items as toys.
Highbornes never mud bath, unless there's clear water to wash it off immediately. They do roll in dry sand and hay or grass. Overall, they are incredibly cleanliness-loving.
There's no need to separate stallions and mares, because highbornes will mate only in absolute privacy. Also they tend to stick in pairs and herd does best if there's equal number of stallions and mares. But there is hierarchy. It's not based on power, but on elegance. The most elegant one is leader and has priority with picking of partner for next mating. If it comes to fight, highbornes try to ground their opponent, ideally into something that will stain opponents' coat or ruin mane.
Highbornes are absolute show offs and they can sense if someone is in admiration over them and they love it. They like dressage and shows, do okay with jumping but hate mud races and cross-country.
Also... they are not very smart. They do have some strangely keen senses (such as recognition of admiration or the color sense) but overall, they are dumb and vain. It can be sometimes traumatizing to train them. They get easily distracted.
Stable requirements:
Demanding. Seriously demanding. Clean space, clean bedding, fresh air, dry and nice equipment, tasty horse food and crystal clean water. They become real jerks, if some of these requirements remain unmet for longer time. Sometimes they freak out over insanely stupid reasons, such as 'there's a fly in my stable!'. Some are humbler, but they still like to have very clean stable.
Paddock can be smaller, but there should be grass and possibly absence of too muddy parts.
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Examples of highborne coats. |
CHAIMOI - dwarven breed
| SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
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2 |
5 |
4 |
2 |
-2 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
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Chaimoi symbol |
Habitat: Degh mountains of central-east Kelepha
Feed: regular horse food, lichen, moss, heather, bush leaves
Lifespan: 45-60yo
Life cycle: nursing foal 3-6months, weanling to 1yo, yearling to 2yo, adolescent to 3yo, senior 40+
Breeding details: Chance for twins 99+, no more than two foals at once.
Extra pictures for proper offspring growth: Foal with at least one of parents, playing foal
Danger: Prone to owerworking.
Technical build description:
Chaimois appear to be fairly angular. They itty bitty slightly, resemble of chamois in their build. It's still pony, or equine in general, but they do lack elegant curves, such as baroque horses would have, or Arabian horses. Quarter horse, if it was smaller, would be considerable reference. I myself used Irish pony for first reference since that individual pony was fitting well. But later I realized that the breed is generally, not resembling of what I imagined. I searched a lot, but couldn't find a horse breed, that would be 100% usable as reference. I think adding some donkey, mule or zebra feature to the design (such as shape of back or behind) would be acceptable. Actually, using hinny as reference could work very well.
Wild behavior:
Chaimoi ponies originate from rocky mountains, and as such they are suited to the environment. Their short, sturdy frame and strong agile legs with cleft hooves make them great jumpers and very agile in difficult terrain. Herds are harems counting 15-30 individuals scattered on fairly large area. Chaimoi nature is to run if there's danger, but they are not cowards. It has to do more with intellect than lack of courage. They won't get jumpy, unless threat is great.
Stallions will fight with teeth and hooves over dominancy in herd. This dominancy sets who gets to mate and who leads the herd. It's similar to regular horse hierarchy. If mother of foal is killed, other mares in herd will take care of it.
Natural predator of chaimoi is mountain eagle cobra and mountain saber tooth lion.
Domestic behavior:
Chamois domesticated quite well. They are docile, obedient, hardworking mounts great for both riding and draught. However, they do have one fatal flaw. They do not display fatigue. They go on 100% till they absolutely collapse on lethal scale. Keeper must know his animals well to recognize, how long they can go before they are tired. Dwarves using chaimois keep time journals to know when each animal started working.
They can be kept in company of any other equine or farm animal. They are outgoing and can socialize with basically anything that lives (except for their own predators, maybe).
Stable requirements:
Chaimois are very humble. They have basically no special requirements. They need just fresh bedding, if kept in stable. They don't need stable at all, as they are well suited for staying all year long in outside paddock, facing elements head first without hesitance.
Chaimois appear to be fairly angular. They itty bitty slightly, resemble of chamois in their build. It's still pony, or equine in general, but they do lack elegant curves, such as baroque horses would have, or Arabian horses. Quarter horse, if it was smaller, would be considerable reference. I myself used Irish pony for first reference since that individual pony was fitting well. But later I realized that the breed is generally, not resembling of what I imagined. I searched a lot, but couldn't find a horse breed, that would be 100% usable as reference. I think adding some donkey, mule or zebra feature to the design (such as shape of back or behind) would be acceptable. Actually, using hinny as reference could work very well.
Wild behavior:
Chaimoi ponies originate from rocky mountains, and as such they are suited to the environment. Their short, sturdy frame and strong agile legs with cleft hooves make them great jumpers and very agile in difficult terrain. Herds are harems counting 15-30 individuals scattered on fairly large area. Chaimoi nature is to run if there's danger, but they are not cowards. It has to do more with intellect than lack of courage. They won't get jumpy, unless threat is great.
Stallions will fight with teeth and hooves over dominancy in herd. This dominancy sets who gets to mate and who leads the herd. It's similar to regular horse hierarchy. If mother of foal is killed, other mares in herd will take care of it.
Natural predator of chaimoi is mountain eagle cobra and mountain saber tooth lion.
Domestic behavior:
Chamois domesticated quite well. They are docile, obedient, hardworking mounts great for both riding and draught. However, they do have one fatal flaw. They do not display fatigue. They go on 100% till they absolutely collapse on lethal scale. Keeper must know his animals well to recognize, how long they can go before they are tired. Dwarves using chaimois keep time journals to know when each animal started working.
They can be kept in company of any other equine or farm animal. They are outgoing and can socialize with basically anything that lives (except for their own predators, maybe).
Stable requirements:
Chaimois are very humble. They have basically no special requirements. They need just fresh bedding, if kept in stable. They don't need stable at all, as they are well suited for staying all year long in outside paddock, facing elements head first without hesitance.
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Examples of chaimoi coats. |
DIGGERE - gnome breed
| SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
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2 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
-2 | 0 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
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Diggere symbol |
Habitat: Degh mountains of central-east Kelepha, coastal rock fields of northern Zinzziranza
Feed: generally herbivores, but if food is processed, they eat nearly anything
Lifespan: 50-70yo
Life cycle: nursing foal 3-6months, weanling to 1yo, yearling to 2yo, adolescent to 3yo, senior 50+ Breeding details: Chance for twins 93+, no more than two foals at once.
Extra pictures for proper offspring growth: Foal with alteast one of parents, playing foal
Danger: Non.
Wild behavior:
Fairly similar to chaimoi ponies. Diggeres share their original habitat and they are close relatives. Their herds can count up to 40 members and herd's split into smaller groups. Each group has its own lead stallion subdominant to 'herd lord' who is general leader of a herd.
Diggeres tend to keep close to overhangs or caves, in which they hide in very poor weather. If no hideout available they don't really care, as their thick fur provides enough protection.
Despite their small size, they can put up fight, especially since they do attack in numbers in order to protect foals.
They are "I-will-roll-in-everything-that-I-can" kind of equines. They roll in mud, sand, dirt, water, snow, grass, flowers, heather, leaves, pine needles, even small stone rubble. If it's cold, they will pick dry substance to roll in.
They grow winter fur for cold weather, which is exceptionally thick and fluffy. During spring is fur being shed and summer coat is much shorter.
Domestic behavior:
Stubborn. Quite a lot. Rider or keeper needs very firm hand, because they like to do what they want and when they want. They don't tend to put wild tantrum, but they will stubbornly and calmly enforce their will. They are also very smart and can easily overcome simpler systems, such as door handles or door latches. Some are smart enough to turn keys, if left in keyholes. They generally do well in company of other equines, other herbivores or docile carnivores (such as tamed dogs or bears).
Also is very important to keep an eye on their diet, as they are willing to eat basically anything edible, possibly even things that are not good for them.
General most common look, even in domesticity, is short stumpy fluffball. But if from good ancestry, well trained and overall good conditions, appearance can be more athletic with shorter fur.
Stable requirements:
No need for stable at all. All they need is a water source, pasture and some rocks or trees to scratch an itchy butt on. That's absolute basic. However higher class or working diggeres get (and need) much greater care. Stable, very specific diet to support endurance and power, hoof clearing, grooming and basically everything you would expect in horse care.
Fairly similar to chaimoi ponies. Diggeres share their original habitat and they are close relatives. Their herds can count up to 40 members and herd's split into smaller groups. Each group has its own lead stallion subdominant to 'herd lord' who is general leader of a herd.
Diggeres tend to keep close to overhangs or caves, in which they hide in very poor weather. If no hideout available they don't really care, as their thick fur provides enough protection.
Despite their small size, they can put up fight, especially since they do attack in numbers in order to protect foals.
They are "I-will-roll-in-everything-that-I-can" kind of equines. They roll in mud, sand, dirt, water, snow, grass, flowers, heather, leaves, pine needles, even small stone rubble. If it's cold, they will pick dry substance to roll in.
They grow winter fur for cold weather, which is exceptionally thick and fluffy. During spring is fur being shed and summer coat is much shorter.
Domestic behavior:
Stubborn. Quite a lot. Rider or keeper needs very firm hand, because they like to do what they want and when they want. They don't tend to put wild tantrum, but they will stubbornly and calmly enforce their will. They are also very smart and can easily overcome simpler systems, such as door handles or door latches. Some are smart enough to turn keys, if left in keyholes. They generally do well in company of other equines, other herbivores or docile carnivores (such as tamed dogs or bears).
Also is very important to keep an eye on their diet, as they are willing to eat basically anything edible, possibly even things that are not good for them.
General most common look, even in domesticity, is short stumpy fluffball. But if from good ancestry, well trained and overall good conditions, appearance can be more athletic with shorter fur.
Stable requirements:
No need for stable at all. All they need is a water source, pasture and some rocks or trees to scratch an itchy butt on. That's absolute basic. However higher class or working diggeres get (and need) much greater care. Stable, very specific diet to support endurance and power, hoof clearing, grooming and basically everything you would expect in horse care.
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| Examples of diggere coats. |
ROKEY - rare gem breed
| SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
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2 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
-3 | -2 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
5 |
5 |
Price range: 30-35✪
Custom import requirements: Player prestige 45+
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Rokey symbol |
Origin: probably town of Herrgirok in south-west Kelepha
Feed: dissolved minerals, hard water, salts, fungi, molds, lichen, moss, no-chlorophyll plants
Lifespan: 15-18yo
Life cycle: nursing foal 3-6months, mineralization from 3 months, weanling to 1yo, yearling to 2yo, adolescent to 3yo, senior 13+
Breeding details: Chance for twins 99+, no more than two foals at once.
Extra pictures for proper offspring growth: Foal with at least one of parents, playing foal, foal with first crystalized mane part
Danger: With normal breeding slot is impossible to have foal, you
need at least one twin breeding slot.
History:
Origin is unknown. First evidence of occurrence was at the end of second era in dwarven town of Herrgirok (thus name 'rokey' = of stone). An old dwarven legend says, that great dwarven Jewell crafter created pony made of stone and gold, and gifted it to the ancient dragon in hope to avert dragons' madness during Fire war. Since it's only scientifically unsupported legend, it's not given much weight. However, distinction from all other animal breeds is undeniable, so it's presumed that rokeys were artificially created, likely with usage of Stone rose transmog and some heavy genetic tweaking.
After some time gnomes stole rokeys from dwarves, which led nearly to war. War preparations were stopped, because cavern gnomes were far superior in taking care of rokey ponies. In their hands rokeys blossomed, delivering even gemstones and other precious materials besides gold.
Movement and anatomy:
Internal anatomy of rokey is same as normal flash equine (except for metabolism and digestion), however their brain and skin are completely different story. Skin is made out of stone/mineral/metal, and can be up to 6cm thick. Same goes with mane and tail. Such creature would be unable to move, but here's when brain comes to play. Rokeys are the most gifted creatures on Cesferus when it comes to inorganic self-transforming magic. Their every movement it perfect cooperation of physical law bending and bodily movement, resulting into seemingly (well it's fairly stiff) 'flesh' stone movement.
But don't get fooled, skin's still hard material as you would expect. They can 'solid up' whenever they want.
Wild behavior:
Rokeys that doesn't display any precious minerals and are plain stone, are commonly set loose, so despite artificial origin, there's wild variant.
Wild rokey are hardly seen on surface, as they most of time spent in underground cave systems, where they eat fungi, molds and sulfur plants (pale vegetation growing in absolute darkness) along with consuming of dissolved materials to nourish stone skin. They are photophobic, and will get out of ground only during night.
It's unknown in what condition wild rokeys reproduce or what social structure they adapted.
Domestic behavior:
Domesticated rokeys are not photophobic and do well in both light and dark environment. As you would expect of stone creature, they are calm and fearless, knowing that not much can harm them. They are okay with being polished and chiseled for harvest (if you don't cut too deep). Also, their great strength and sturdy stature makes them good cargo animals.
They aren’t showing social structure what so ever, and humanoid is for them only something bringing food and taking care. There's no bonds or emotions towards each other or keeper. In fact, emotions of rokey ponies are very basic, displaying only hunger, mild signs of joy/satisfaction and mild signs of displease/disagreement. Safe to say that they seem really cold as stone.
If they are mating, it is because mare is willing and her reproductive instinct kicks in. Breeding can be traumatizing, because stone ponies have high number of miscarriage if bred pure. And usually the higher material rarity, the greater miscarriage danger is. Newborn foal has thin translucent stone crust reminiscent of egg shell and no mane tail or any other crystal formation on body.
Stable requirements:
Just give them best kind of food and highly mineralized water, occasionally chisel and polish them to thin the stone crust and they will be fine. No stable needed, paddock can be very basic.
However, the highly valued most precious ponies are kept in royal and fancy conditions, to keep their value. But it's more of humanoid vanity, than pony really needing it.
Origin is unknown. First evidence of occurrence was at the end of second era in dwarven town of Herrgirok (thus name 'rokey' = of stone). An old dwarven legend says, that great dwarven Jewell crafter created pony made of stone and gold, and gifted it to the ancient dragon in hope to avert dragons' madness during Fire war. Since it's only scientifically unsupported legend, it's not given much weight. However, distinction from all other animal breeds is undeniable, so it's presumed that rokeys were artificially created, likely with usage of Stone rose transmog and some heavy genetic tweaking.
After some time gnomes stole rokeys from dwarves, which led nearly to war. War preparations were stopped, because cavern gnomes were far superior in taking care of rokey ponies. In their hands rokeys blossomed, delivering even gemstones and other precious materials besides gold.
Movement and anatomy:
Internal anatomy of rokey is same as normal flash equine (except for metabolism and digestion), however their brain and skin are completely different story. Skin is made out of stone/mineral/metal, and can be up to 6cm thick. Same goes with mane and tail. Such creature would be unable to move, but here's when brain comes to play. Rokeys are the most gifted creatures on Cesferus when it comes to inorganic self-transforming magic. Their every movement it perfect cooperation of physical law bending and bodily movement, resulting into seemingly (well it's fairly stiff) 'flesh' stone movement.
But don't get fooled, skin's still hard material as you would expect. They can 'solid up' whenever they want.
Wild behavior:
Rokeys that doesn't display any precious minerals and are plain stone, are commonly set loose, so despite artificial origin, there's wild variant.
Wild rokey are hardly seen on surface, as they most of time spent in underground cave systems, where they eat fungi, molds and sulfur plants (pale vegetation growing in absolute darkness) along with consuming of dissolved materials to nourish stone skin. They are photophobic, and will get out of ground only during night.
It's unknown in what condition wild rokeys reproduce or what social structure they adapted.
Domestic behavior:
Domesticated rokeys are not photophobic and do well in both light and dark environment. As you would expect of stone creature, they are calm and fearless, knowing that not much can harm them. They are okay with being polished and chiseled for harvest (if you don't cut too deep). Also, their great strength and sturdy stature makes them good cargo animals.
They aren’t showing social structure what so ever, and humanoid is for them only something bringing food and taking care. There's no bonds or emotions towards each other or keeper. In fact, emotions of rokey ponies are very basic, displaying only hunger, mild signs of joy/satisfaction and mild signs of displease/disagreement. Safe to say that they seem really cold as stone.
If they are mating, it is because mare is willing and her reproductive instinct kicks in. Breeding can be traumatizing, because stone ponies have high number of miscarriage if bred pure. And usually the higher material rarity, the greater miscarriage danger is. Newborn foal has thin translucent stone crust reminiscent of egg shell and no mane tail or any other crystal formation on body.
Stable requirements:
Just give them best kind of food and highly mineralized water, occasionally chisel and polish them to thin the stone crust and they will be fine. No stable needed, paddock can be very basic.
However, the highly valued most precious ponies are kept in royal and fancy conditions, to keep their value. But it's more of humanoid vanity, than pony really needing it.
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| Examples of rokey coats. |
TRIVIA
- Chaimoi pony's shed winter coat is used by dwarfs to weave wool-like cloth.
- Rokey ponies are cool with that stone appearance, but hella hard to explain in some non-brain-melting theory. So despite me not being fan of 'magic explains everything' I had to use it.
- From early versions of kelephans, they stayed so far untouched and unedited, till 2021, when reworking of lineart and breed sheets started.
- Rokey ponies used to be called rockey ponies, because they are simply made out of rock. For sake of fantasy naming, I switched to rokey.
