Species: Mesfes (equine)
DESCRIBTION AND ABILITIES (General for all nagian breeds)
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 90+, no more than two foals at once
Extra pictures for propper offspring growth: Foal with alteast one of parents, playing foal, foal exploring water for first time
MALACOS - shore breed
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Malacos symbol |
Wild behavior:
Untamed in nature, fairly brave and loners.
Both mare and stallion leave herd in age of 2yo. They roam freely and if
they stumble upon any nagian unicorn of opposite sex, they try to mate. They
spend together roughly one month.
If mating is sucesfull, both seek
herd. Both mare and stallion live within herd till mare gives birth and foal
stops drinking maternal milk. After that parents depart from foal and
eachother to roam again. This process repeates till stallion's age +-15 and
mare's loss of fertility. Malacos of this age will start to seek herd they
were born in. With this herd they stay till old age (or they die searching for
the herd). Once malacos starts to feel fading away, it departs from herd again
and dies in solitude.
Herd structure has strongest stallion as leader,
other structure are nanies and fighters. All stallions posses role of fighters
that protect herd, all mares have role of nanies that take care of left behind
foals.
If two youg free roaming stallions meet each other nearby mare,
they will fight who get's to mate with her. Same applies to mares. If two
mares meet one stallion they fight over him. If stallion tries to mate with
unwilling mare, they fight. Fights also decide who is leader herd. Some
nannies fight over foals, as they attach themself to it greatly.
Domestic behavior:
Tamed malacos won't mind living with multiple other horses, however
it's not mandatory for them. They will do fairly well alone in big enough
paddock. But tendencies to free roam in search for partner remains, so they
will attemp running away to find mating partner. This repeats for both mare
and stallion one in two months, and the strongest lust prevails for roughly
3days. Once malacos reaches age of "returning back to it's home herd" they
will try to get there no matter how far away it is. If malacos was born in
domesticity, it will try to return to it's original stable. If this attempt
fails, it's likely next year at similar time the malacos will attempt it
again.
Stable requirements:
Malacos don't require
larger bodies of water nearby, however they do better if they can fully
submerge occasionaly. Stable doesn't need heating nor roof, as malacos do well
in both hot and cold weather and they adore rain.
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Examples of malacos coats. |
CARCHAROS - pelagic breed
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Carcharos symbol |
Habitat: open sae areas of various depths and temperature of 12-24°C
Feed: fish, cephalopods, jellyfish, kelp, regualr horse food mixed with fish meat
Wild behavior:
Carcharos are found usually in herds of 10-20 with members scattered on
large teritorium (rougly 2km2 with depthrange of 500m). Each member of group
keeps for himself atleast 100m2 of area, sometimes they group up in pairs or
thirds within herd. Herds come together to sleep or if larger predator occurs.
Since carcharos are predators themself, they also hunt together if stumbled
upon larger group of fish or prey.
On begginig of spring heavily
pregnant mares group up in large herds counting hundrets, to migrate from
Sibbarian ocean to Milestone ocean. This travel takes time till beggining of
summer. Mares give birth in warm and rich shallows of Lost sea. At end of
sumemer mares with foals return to Sibbarian ocean. Stallion at end of summer
head to meet them. Herds regroup in aproximatly middle of migration road and
in differently separated herds return to their teritories.
Smaller
carcharos herds often group up with sharks as they mutually benefit from
strength in numbers while hunting large fish shcools, however sharks hunt down
foals if unguarded.
Herd hierarchy has emphasis on mares. Lead mares lead
herd and decide which stallions of group are allowed to mate. Any stallion
that wishes to mate is obligated to fight lead mare. Fight is not to death, it
serves for lead mare to learn what quality stallion is and whether he can be
allowed to mate with her mares. Lead mare has also her deputy, that takes
temporarily her place when lead mare is pregnant.
Domestic behavior:
Domesticated carcharos are quite sociable, however strong mares will
clash with any other lead stallion from different equine species and they will
have to establish dominancy hierarchy within stable society. Once dominancy is
established, mares don't display exceptional agression anymore. Mares will
find warmest part of stable/paddock to give birth. Carcharos don't display
migrative behavior in domestic conditions, but they enjoy long runs with big
group. Carcharos get very lively in morning dawn.
Stable requirements:
Carcharos prefer open area and they overall suffer if kept longer in
indoor stables. They need large paddock, so they can be constantly on a move.
It is recommanded to give them fairly deep and big body of water with stock of
fish, so they can hunt or spent nights on water surface. Overall they do well
in fresh water, but monthly saltwater baths are mandatory to keep skin
healthy.
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| Examples of carcharos coats. |
PERCIFORE - reef breed
| SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
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Percifore symbol |
Wild behavior:
Percifores are teritorial and they prefer to live in couples. Teritory
of one couple is aproximetly 1km2 with depth range of 400m (if sea depth
allows it). They are fairly shy and avoid too open areas, especially at night.
In dusk, dawn or bad weather, when water visibility is low, percifores lay
down among corals and wait in hideout till weather gets better. They seek reef
caves or cliffhangs to sleep in. Teritorium is always posed around cliffahng
or cave.
Both stallion and mare gets agressive if intruder enters
teritory in their sight if there's foal or pregnant mare. They attack without
hasitance and persude intruder untill they kill it or it escapes the
territory. Each summer, around time of longest day, larger herds of young
percifores gather at sandy sea bottoms to perform wedding ritual. Herd forms
sort of circle and every now and then stallion enters middle of circle, bows
down it's head, and then starts to jerk itself in fairly elegant manner. Horn
is being driven into the sand and pulled out with sudden movement of a head to
create cloud of sand in which stallion dances. If any mare is impressed by
stallion's dance, she approchaes the stallion and neighes. Stallion then
freezes in place and mare gently slides her horn along his heck. By that
couple is created and they together leave ritual circle to find new
territory.
If more mares are interested in one stallion, they both swirl
up sand with their horn. Mare that makes bigger sand cloud gets to partner up
with stallion.
Solitary percifores do not posses territory and move
freely untill they partner up.
Domestic behavior:
Bonding to one individual is very strong instinct and in domestic
conditions it can apply to any other animal or hummanoid. In that case
percifore get's protective of such creature and lloality could be easily
compared to dog dehaviour. However this bond can be easily broken if opposite
sex percifore is avaliable.
Percifore will keep it's distance from larger
groups of bigger or potentially dangerous animals.
In domesticity
percifores do perform wedding ritual and couple then needs new area that they
could consider new territorium. As in wild, they will protect it as long as
there's pregnant mare or foal. It is exceptional if percifore lets anyone
enter to even do a maintanance.
Stable requirements:
They need some body of water, preferably with hideout inside. If kept
without it, they can get severe skin condition due drying out. Their color
turns dull, fins are kept klamped and if untreated percifore will be more
suspectible to various skin infections. They need saltwater baths atleast once
a week. Despite teritorium in wilderness is huge, in captivity they can be
okay with bare minimum of regular paddock size and shelter.
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| Examples of percifore coats. |
LOPHIIFOS - abyssal breed
| SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
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Lophiifos symbol |
Habitat: Deep-water coral reefs, hydrothermal vent regions, sea cliffs, abyssal plains, dark water meadows, submarine ridges, black reefs, crystal kelp forests
Feed: fish, carrion of all kinds, mushrooms, coral polyps, various nuts, sea cucumbers, soft vegetables, garlic, mollusks, deep-sea arthropods
Wild behavior:
Sharpfin
Living in dark depths
(1500-4000m) makes lophiifoses technically taken unsocial equines as there's
no need of herding in order to survive. Food is sparse and each lophiifos
hunts independently. Depending on physical appearance lophiifoses hunt
actively, or passively by luring prey (if numerous glowing spots present in
coat).
Lophiifos has exceptional senses and vision detecting bio
fluorescence on 100m range, which gives them advantage over most abyssal
creatures, thus they are apex predators being able to take down even larger
creatures, such as abyssal leviathan. Their neighs have high pitched nearly
ultrasound component that spreads in water and has similar function to wolf
howl. Lophiifoses use these neighs to communicate with nearby individuals.
They group up to take down larger prey and mares have distinct mating calls.
Lophiifos stallions fight to death over calling mare and winner mates
with her. Pregnant mares group up are slowly ascending to surface, since
shallower waters are warmer and richer. Group of mares is accompanied by two
or three strong stallions that fiercely protect them. This ascending is slowly
paced to take up whole pregnancy period. When mare reaches depth of 50m she
gives birth. Lophiifoses never ascend close to surface during day, unless it's
really cloudy. Mares with foals spend five months in depth range of 50-500m.
After that time they slowly start to descend into depths again. This
descending takes roughly 1 year and during that time foals adapt to life in
depths.
Softfin
Their behavior differs from sharpfin in
depth and relationship to sun and light. Softfin lophiifos live in depths
around 500m and don't descent at all. They don't mind ascending during sunny
day. However in this depth is easier for large creatures to hunt down solitary
individuals and softfins unlike sharpfins are not considered as top predators.
They are often being hunt by sharks and finflare varans. This makes them
slightly more sociable than their deep water counterparts.
Domestic behavior:
Sharpfins and softfins have unify behavior in domesticity. They are
mostly active at night, during day they hide unless it's dark cloudy weather,
preferably with heavy rain. If visibility is lower (heavy rain, mist), they
often use neigh to localize other individuals or to roughly estimate terrain
based on sound spread.
Occasional lurking or tries to hunt down smaller
creature are common, higher frequency of such behavior signals insufficient
diet. Lophiifos won't display any discomfort being on land, however in
explicitly low atmospheric pressure will act very lethargically with signs of
being in pain. This can be prevented by sufficiently deep body of water to
hide in.
Stable requirements:
At least three meters deep body of water with either stairs or slope in
as entrance is mandatory part of stall, to prevent serious illnesses, such as
dryness of skin or pressure problems in long term. Water should be preferably
saltwater, but brackish water is enough for highly domesticated lophiifos.
Paddock doesn't need to be too large, but needs water with live fish, so
lophiifos can hunt.
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| Examples of lophiifos coats. |
DOLPHIR - coastal breed
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Dolphir symbol |
Habitat: widely distributeng in seas along tropic and temperate belt
Feed: Fish, seagrass, kelp, mollusks, shrimp, regular horse food
Wild behavior:
Dolphiros are highly sociable. They form herds counting up to 15 adult
members and their herds consist of mares, foals and youngsters of both sex.
Adult stallions travel in groups of two or three. Smaller herds can form
larger groups of 100 or more and occasionally exceed 1000 for short ammount of
time.
Herds occupy hunting or grazing ground for couple of hourse, then
they move to different one. Thanks to this their position constantly changes
and they are on a move most of a day.
At night dolphiros lie down on
water level with few indvididuals watching over herd underwater.
While
on move they run close to surface or at water level, playing with waves,
jumping, and splashing water in playful manner.
Hunting is done in
strategic way, when few dolphirs chase fish shoal together and others run
through and catch fish. They change roles, so everyone can eat. They also
impale fish to share with less sucesfull or with foals.
When group of
stallions meet herd with willing mares, they try to mate, or fight over a mare
if there's more stallion groups. Stallion groups have established "your turn"
system. Only one stallion of group mates with encountered herd. When they meet
another herd, it's another's stallion turn.
Dolphiros are hunted by big
sharks and wyverns, which keeps numbers in balance.
Domestic behavior:
Need to stimulate brain and to move are strong. Don't ever let them get
bored. Or keep them alone. That would lead to severe depression, even
self-harming behavior or aggression to keep brain stimulated. They require
company of other equnes or animals in order to stay sane. They will roll in
mud whenever there's a chance. They will curiusly explore everything new in
their surroundings and will play with it to understand.
If there's any
animal or horse dashing around their paddock, they will joyfully run along
fence and jump as long as they see it.
They will gladly accept any
training especially complicated dressage, as it trigers their intellect.
Stable requirements:
Dolphiros don't require body of water in their paddock or stable, but
they will enjoy it if present. Doesn't have to be salty or too deep. The don't
do well if kept for longer time inside enclosed stable, it is best to keep
them all year long outside. They don't mind shifting temperature. It is
mandatory to give them big enough paddock, best of long rectangular shape, so
they can run.
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Examples of dolphir coats. |
BALTIR - arctic breed
| SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
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Baltir symbol |
Habitat: Colder waters of Norther and Southern ice ocean, colder pelagic waters, iceberg plains
Feed: Fish, kelp, shrimp, crustaceans, coldwater coral polyps, jellyfish, regular horse food
Baltirs sing. They have two kinds of neighs. Short land neighs and sea neighs that are deep, long and echoing. By this they can communicate on longer distances and if baltir stands back touching ice crust above him, vibrations are felt also through thinnier ice crusts and can be detected by baltir standing atop of ice within range of 10m.
Baltir herds start migrate closer to equator each autumn. In this migration male and female groups merge and mating takes place. Dominant stallions are in charge of picking mares they want to mate with. Lower rank stallions usually don't get chance to mate at all, as mares reject them.
At spring baltirs start to return to cold waters. Mares usually give birth next year on migration to equator.
Domestic behavior:
The docility and peacefull behavior is their dominant trait. Stallions nor mares won't feel need to prove dominancy over different equine species including other nagian breeds, however they will form social structure similar to wild behavior with other domestic baltirs.
Tricky can be keeping single baltir with more temperament equines, as it will likely copy their behavior including agression.
Domestic baltir won't run around paddock as crazy mustang, but will keep it's pace and tranquility. Ocassionaly it might run, but more likely will conserve energy. If controled by humannoid, or part of dominant equines herd, baltir willingly submits their lead even if it's bad. Domestic baltirs are often very gullible towards humanoids. Autumn triggers both mare and stallion mating instincts.
Stable requrements:
Can be all year long kept outside, only for hot summer weather is refreshing body of water mandatory. In snowy winter they will act little bit more lively than normally.
Pay attention on food. Baltirs are prone to getting owerveight as their natural metabollism is programmed to keep blubber in order to protect them from cold and their nature is to conserve energy. Best ways to get them moving is harness them. It is their instinct to prove being stronger than their opponent - the cargo.
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| Examples of baltir coats. |
TRIVIA
- Did you know, that nagian unicorn species was accidentaly created? It was based years ago on Dragon hill tournament: Let's rock on field which was just completely random horse design I needed to look dangerous.
- Nagian horns are glass like material (tougher than galss, but with similar transparency) and can penetrate even steel armor. Also if horns get injured (crackling, break off, cut off) it becomes milky clouded
- Older generations of unicorns were bred as battle units, trained for cruelty and hate towards non-naga creatures of all kinds and for hunting, sort of substitute hounds. But new generation of nagians that is imported among terrestrials are trained and raised by different standards, so majority of them are not killing machines nowadays.
- There's existent rare disease that causes nagian unicorn to drip blood-like fluid from horn. It's called "capilaritis"
- Two lophiifos nagians Tequilla and Rum were each bought for 1000 dA points from decision of buyer. Thanks to this duo was softfin variant of lophiifos created
