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CLASSIFICATION
Species: Bear
Subspecies: Shadowmoon bear
Lines: Elle (Medium), Sehe (Beast), Baile (Chaser)
DESCRIBTION AND ABILITIES (General for all bear breeds)
Feed: Omnivorous, they will eat anything edible. But preferred are
unprocessed berries, fruit, herbs, fish and meat
Lifespan: 20-35yo
Life cycle: infant 0-3 months, cub 3months to 1.5yo, sexually mature at
3yo, senior 30+
Breeding details: Chance for twins 40+, triplets 80+, no more than
three foals at once. Cubs are for a week blind and helpless after birth,
relying on their mother.
Extra pictures for proper offspring growth: Playing bear cub, cub with one of parents, your rider playing with cub
Extra pictures for proper offspring growth: Playing bear cub, cub with one of parents, your rider playing with cub
History:
Shadowmoon bear is recreation of lost species. It was re-bred from last
members of large skalam bears that remained as only specimen of ridable bears
inhabiting now sunken part of Coldaira continent - Etjadra. Due insufficient
gene pool was regular north coldairan bear added in order
to prevent inbreeding. Roughly 200 years after start of breeding program,
ridable bears reached steady population again and started to spread widely as
great alternative to the desert horses. Thanks to fondness of Colderran rulers
toward bears, bears became traditional mean of transport for humans of
southern Coldaira. Most valued bears were bred (such paradox) by wood elf
family in Shadowmoon manor. At peak of popularity were best bears valued the
same as best desert horses.
Thanks to this popularity, breeders’ try to fit regular ridable bears to more
disciplines, such as fast travel and heavy battle units, highly increased.
This led to creation of two more specialized breeds - fast and agile Baile
bears and heavy draft Sehe bears. However unfortunate events around year of
457/3 (wars of Sand and Snow) led to destruction of vast majority of bear
ranches. Usage of bears as war animals and on top targeted destruction, made
huge dent in ridable bears population. Shadowmoon manor, which escaped
destruction, became a refuge and main hub of redistributing of ridable bears.
That's why now available bears are called Shadowmoon bears.
Domestic behavior:
Ridable bears, unlike smaller wild counterparts, are fairly social. When it
comes to hunting, they do prefer to hunt alone, but they keep returning into a
same pack den (or stable) that is localized on intersection of 3-4 bear
territories. They will even feel alone and seek company of other animals or
humanoids. There can be observed interesting social structure even in
artificially created stabled community. With 5 or more bears loose in one
paddock there's always dominant male called 'ranger'. This male acts as leader
and justice. If any suborder bears have disputes, ranger will come to resolve
them. Resolving has various forms. From plain fight, to growling competition.
Sometimes ranger sides with guilty bear, just because he doesn't like or is
annoyed by other bear.
If suborder bears have disputes over food, it's not uncommon that ranger will
come and take it from both of them, so they stay hungry. Bear pack tends to
follow ranger and they trust him. Females are naturally attracted to him, so
ranger is usually father of most cubs.
In order to get females to mate with different male, ranger has to be removed
from community. In that case next dominant male will take his place. If bears
are not satisfied with ranger, they will take him collectively down and free
up space for next candidate. If ranger is gelded, he's outcast by rest of pack
and is best to keep him separated. Ridable bears do very well in company of
humanoid they know well. They perceive humanoid as ranger and as such they
follow his lead. If humanoid enters paddock with ranger bear already with it,
ranger will still perceive human as dominant force. However, if bears do not
like the humanoid, he will be taken down same as ranger bear would be.
Energy patterns and metabolism is different from regular bears. Ridable bears
in most cases are not allowed to hibernate, due need of rideability through the
year. This makes ridable bears more active with less concern about saving
energy for hibernation. Only exception are bears kept in poorer conditions, as
it's not cheap to feed bear through winter when food is less available.
Affinity to work:
Most ridable bears actually love to be harnessed and work, especially to pull.
It's part of their nature and it keeps them busy and not bored. They love
especially if there's multiple bears harnessed and whole pack drags together a
carriage or sled. Same goes for group rides, when bears get to congregate with
both other bears and riders. This is one of the features making them excellent
mounts.
Besides carrying rider and draught, bears can be used also to lift or push
things or handle fairly heavy loads. Since their paws are manually skilled
(atlest in terms of animal world) they are able to learn how to for example
open things.
Stable requirements:
Best environment is large paddock with grown trees, few large rocks and dirt
hills or steep dirt cliff large enough for pack of bears to dig their den in
it. Bears will use den as hideout in bad weather or cold weather, occasionally
for sleeping or to hide in bad or shy mood.
Bears will scratch themself on trees and they will also climb the tree. The
climbing can become fairly tricky for keeping bears inside of paddock. It's
advised to use at lest 3m deep ditch before smooth wall, or to position paddock
at lest 4m lower than surrounding ground.
Bears are smart and require stimulation. But they do not need to rely on
man-made toys, since they can find fun with random objects.
For bears kept solitarily are conditions slightly different. They will require
attention and socialization that would be otherwise provided by rest of pack.
They will want to interact with their rider/keeper in various ways, including
play fights, cuddles, chases and such.
ELLE - medium build
| SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
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3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
-2 | 2 |
4 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
Character: Chill and easy going. Obedient and easily trainable. They
will stay quite energetic through day, being awake most of time. The most,
nearly legendary feature, is loyalty towards keeper.
Peak speed of elle bear is 50km/h.
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Examples of elle coats. |
SEHE - heavy build
| SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
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2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
-2 | 2 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
4 |
5 |
Character: Seriously not to be messed with. From all three breeds, sehe
bears are least sociable and most grumpy. Their nature is not inherently evil,
but they tend to have short temper and aggressive responses to dislikes.
Handling sehe bears requires caution and knowledge.
Sehes are fairly lazy and like to sleep or just lay around. They do keep up
moral with rider on back, but once riders off them, they usually just lay
down till they are needed again.
Their love to fight and enforcing power is most noticeable feature.
Peak speed of sehe is 40km/h.
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Examples of sehe coats. |
BAILE - light build
| SPE | END | JUM | GRA | AIA | WAA | STR | ELE | INT | DRE | OBE | COU | RES |
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4 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
-2 | 2 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Character: Children in heart. Silly, playful, energetic. If they had
to be compared to regular non-ridable bear, they would be forever bear cubs.
Bailes doesn't think through a lot of stuff, which gets them in silly
troubles (such as getting stuck somewhere).
Baile bear is sprinter. Highest speed is 60km/h which can be kept for
500-1000km. Regular running speed is 55km/h and can be kept up to 3km. Canter
is performed on speed of 25km/h and can be kept for 6-8km without break. For
longer travels speed is up to 25km in one day if pace is slow.
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Examples of baile coats. |
TRIVIA
- Bears were traditionally bred by humans on northern Coldaira. From all the species in Colderra, bears are to me far cutest, despite not being drawn much even by me
- Bears were very first idea and were supposed to be only mount in this game. At very beginning they had their own group called "shadowmoon bears". They were created as recession to all equine focused groups. Irony that Colderra is now very equine focused as well :D
- It' possible to cross ridable bear with regular bear. In that case offspring will be smaller and not mountable, and can be used as pet.
