Post by sassy saccha ?! on Nov 28, 2010 21:00:47 GMT -5
[Sassafras] of the [Fiele]
the age,
five years.
the gender,
mare.
the breed,
50% Arabian, 25% Quarter Horse, 25% Akhal Teke.
the ranking,
Queen.
the appearance,
She's not one of those fancy, stunning ladies seen roaming about the lands, but Sass is quite far from being unattractive. Standing at about 16.2 hands, she takes after her Arabian bloodline in the way she holds herself; regally and with the head often eagerly extended to take in her surroundings. Her coat is a delicate, luminous shade of dark ebony, highlighted with tints of brown and black. Her mane and tail are a rich, deep brown, nearly black in the shadows. The hair trailing down from her head and the hair ribboning down from her rear are thick and long, oftentimes whipping Sassafras in the face as she gallops.
As for normal markings, she has one cream sock on her rear left leg and her muzzle looks as if it has been dipped in a light cream paint. Her other markings aren't magnificent as much as unique. A pale orange line trails under her right eye, looking almost like eyeliner. The same pale orange color dances over each of her dark hooves. A deep crimson swirls across her left hindquarter and grows to snake up her back. Her front right leg looks as if it has been splattered in red paint. All in all, she's a unique mare that tends to hold herself quite royally.
the personality,
Sassafras can be a combination of varying traits at any given moment. She is mainly quick, calculating, and sarcastic, often holding an unwavering, intelligent disposition with the majority of the herd. At times appearing very reserved toward those that do not know her quite properly, she is truly very social with her close friends and does not like to be alone. Sass is never one to sugarcoat things and hardly takes into consideration what damage she could be causing someone's self-esteem with her words; one can come to her for a straightforward answer. Though it seems as if she is brutally harsh with her words, she really isn't as cruel and cold as she may seem. As most mares do, Sass has a huge soft spot for foals and isn't physically capable of turning them away if she finds one in pain. She gets quite flirty with stallions at times as well, and is immensely stubborn once she has her sights set on someone.
One dark flaw in her character is how impatient she grows to be. When she says she wants things done, she wants it done when she says it. If her request is ignored and nothing gets done, she gets extremely irritated and restless. Sass is also incredibly fearful of lightning. She can stand thunder, but at the sight of lightning she spooks and often flees. Other than that, she loves a cool, rainy day and often stands out in the downpour and lets the water trickle through her pelt.
the history,
Sassafras was born outside of the Fiele to Greenbriar and Rosebush of the free. Rosebush was a gorgeous Arabian, and Greenbriar was a strong, swift Quarter Horse and Akhal Teke mix. They met only once and very briefly, but Greenbriar managed to impregnate her before running off to do his fancy stallion things far, far away from the herds. Though bitter at being left by Greenbriar, Rosebush refused to leave her new foal abandoned in the wilderness or with a herd. The day Sassafras was born wasn't particularly special; it was a summer day that was slightly cooler than the rest and with clouds in the sky. She had an uneventful life until she grew to be a year old, when her mother's life was claimed by an unidentified illness. Mourning and terribly lonely, Sass went out to find a herd to join. She had heard of each of them, and Fiele interested her; she had wanted to learn to swim but was reluctant to without anyone's skilled guidance. So she journeyed into the territory and became a young follower.
At around three years of her life, she began to grow ambitious. The old leader was growing frail and old, and she had grown to be quite respected over the years. By the time the leader died, she was four and responsible enough to become Queen. She took over the position then, and she has remained in control for close to a full year now. Her life has remained quite uneventful and not traumatizing so far, but who knows where that could turn with the war just over the horizon.