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There are fifteen different types of soquili that have been discovered, with another fifteen sub-breeds. Here you can find general information on each breed, and whether or not they have any abilities or limitations.





Description Overall:
A regular soquili is often known as a grounded soquili. This kind is also known as the "basic" kind of soquili. They look very much like regular horses with manes and tails made up of hair and non-cloven hooves. Without the unusual coloration patterns and forward facing eyes they would be easy to mistake for a plain horse. Fortunately, soquili tend to be smarter than horses, larger, faster, and are the original spirit horse.

Powers:

• None
  
  
• An elder is fleet of foot and faster than their non-elder companions.
  
• An elder is stronger than their non-elder companions.
  
• An elder is larger than their non-elder companions.
  

Alignment:
These soquili can have any personality type or alignment!

Pureblood Requirements

• No wings
  
• Four non-cloven hooves
  
• Hair mane and tail
  
• No scales
  
• No horns.
  

Description Overall:
A uni soquili may be distinguished by the single, non-branching, horn on its forehead. These horns come in a variety of styles but the most common is a simple tight spiral horn. They also have a tail that resembles a lion's and cloven hooves.

Powers:

• A unicorn has the ability to heal others with its horn. Depending on purity and how well practiced, they might be better or worse at healing. Major life threatening wounds will take longer, and might not heal completely without a group of unicorns doing so.
  
  
• An elder unicorn can heal for longer periods of time.
  
• An elder can heal others faster.
  
• An elder can heal more complicated, life-threatening injuries alone.
  

Alignment:
Most unicorns tend toward good and neutral alignments. That being said, a unicorn may have any type of personality you wish to give it.

Requirements to be Pureblooded:

• Cloven hooves (templated for unis or custom)
  
• A single pointed horn
  
• Leonine tail (custom or templated for uni)
  

Description Overall:
A flutter soquili is aptly named for its wings. All flutter soquili have butterfly wings or the wings of another type of insect. Their wings come in many sizes, shapes and colors but every full-blooded flutter will have wings. Some may even have antennae. Other than their wings they look much like regular soquili. The have manes and tails of hair and solid hooves.

Powers:

• The ability to shrink down to the size of a butterfly.
  
• They also can drink nectar from flowers.
  
  
• An Elder Flutter can shrink and grow faster than their flutter kin.
  
• An Elder Flutter can fly faster and stronger than their non-elder flutter kin.
  
• Small flowers grow naturally where an elder Flutter walks.
  
  

Alignment:
Flutters can have any personality or alignment!

Pureblood Requirements:

• Non-cloven hooves
  
• Insect-like wings.
  

Description Overall: A hippogryph has some defining features that separate it from their fellow soq. Their front legs have claws instead of hooves, and are frequently scaled. They sport a single pair of feathered wings, and posses a hardened beak at the tip of their muzzle. They traditionally sport feathered manes and tails, but finding a mix of feather and hair, or solely hair, is not unusual.

Powers:

• Immune to Corpse Powder (ergo they cannot be cursed into shifters!)
  
• Immune to Cactus Poisons
  
• Capable of eating less than fresh meat, allowing them to scavenge on meat other meat eating soquili might have issues stomaching.
  
• Hippogryph soquili possess the power of flight.
  
  
• An elder is immune to all herbal poisons, not just cacti.
  
• An elder can fly faster and stronger than regular hippogryphs.
  
• An elder has an even steelier stomach for scavenging.
  
• An elder is hardier and can live longer without food or drink, due to their desert origins.
  
  

Alignment:
Hippogryph's can be any personality or alignment you choose!


Pureblood Requirements:

• Full or partial beak
  
• Front claws
  
• A single set of feathery wings (templated for hippogryph or custom)
  
  Additional Notes:
  Hippogryphs are naturally able to eat both fruits and meat, though may have a personal preference for one or the other.
  

Description Overall: Ulun'suti are an unusual and rare sort of soquili. They have large, leather wings capable of giving them flight as well as an optional mane. Pure ulun'suti are often seen with a pair of horns jutting from their head, thick scales covering their body, and a strange, retractable claw that sits on the inside of their legs, just above their cloven hoof. Furthermore, they often have a long, serpentine tail - it isn't unusual to see it covered in spikes or a type of fin. Ulun'suti are often varied in details - some have four horns, others two; some have spikes running down their back and tail, others have fins; some tails end in a spade, fur, or even a sort of club. Some Ulun'suti have stingers that produce a mild numbing agent.

Powers:

• Ulun'suti possess the power of flight.
  
• Ulun'suti with stingers produce a mild numbing agent when struck by their tail.
  
• Pure ulun'suti have two inherited breed powers based on their element; mixes have one. Mixes must have at least one pureblooded parent; for first gen pets that are not mock offspring of a pureblooded 'suti, the pet must have visible 'suti traits.
  
  
• An elder ulun'suti who is without an element may gain one of the listed elements by the spirits.
  
• An elder ulun'suti may gain a single additional power of the player's choice so long as its based on their assigned element.
  
• Should the elder ulun'suti possess either of their elemental powers, they can use them longer for less energy than their standard kin.
  

Alignment:
Ulun'suti can be any personality or alignment you choose!

Pureblood Requirements:

• Cloven hooves (templated for ulun'suti or custom)
  
• Back scales (templated for ulun'suti or custom)
  
• A single set of leather draconic-like wings (templated for ulun'suti or custom)
  
• A serpentine tail (templated for ulun'suti or custom). It may have hair/fur or an element matching their mane/fetlocks.
  
  Additional Notes: Ulun'suti are naturally carnivorous but some are known to prefer vegetation or a more omnivorous diet.
  

Description Overall:
A shifter is distinguished by the animal pelt it wears upon its back. This pelt covers their head, part of their face and runs all the way down to the tail. A shifter's pelt may never be removed as it is part of them: pure shifters are born with pelts, and cursed soquili will take the pelt of the first animal they kill. The dark magic of the curse will cause the pelt to attach to the soq, similar to that of the pure shifter. Pure shifters are typically born with paws or claws that match the animal they turn into while a cursed shifters typically has hooves. Cursed shifters will lose any breed powers or abilities once they take the corpse powder. So a cursed unicorn may have a horn, but they cannot heal, or a flutter cannot shrink. Instead they gain the powers listed below.

Powers:

• Shifters will all eat meat, no matter their previous diet. They cannot sustain on anything else.
  
• Shifters may shift into an animal. This animal matches the pelt they wear.
  
• Shifters gain enhancements from their animal form. So one who wears the pelt of a wolf might heightened hearing or smelling, while one with the pelt of a hawk or owl might have heightened vision and hearing.
  
  
  
• An elder shifter shifts faster into their animal form.
  
• An elder's animal form tends to be larger and fiercer than their regular shifter kin.
  
• An elder shifter gains bonuses to their speed and stamina, as well as their heightened animal abilities.
  
  

Alignment:
Shifters may be categorised anywhere between neutral & evil. They may form bonds with their children or even a mate - whatever their reasoning behind it. If you wish your shifter to shift more towards "good" on the alignment, consider charming them!

Angeni Charms, a gemstone with the willingly given blood and blessing of light from an Angeni, has made it possible for shifters, Cursed or Pure, to be of Any Alignment and capable of forming social bonds, having wishes granted by The Wishing Star, and even lifemating, allowing them to be the purest of saints to being the evilest of evil, a member of a closely knit pack to a loner, Kind to Cruel. They still have the shapeshifting powers of a shiter and are still obligate carnivores requiring a meat-rich diet, and cursed shifters do NOT regain the powers of their biological species -- they are still 100% shifters, but more flexible in what sort of individuals they can be.

Pureblood Requirements for Cursed & Pure:

• A pelt covering most of the body (either templated or custom). It should match the feral form in type and color.
  
• A feral form.
  
• Pure shifters must have paws or clawed feet which mach the feral form.
  
  

Additional Rules & Restrictions
WARNING Please be aware of these finite rules concerning the species. Failure to adhere to them will result in staff intervention.

Shifters ARE solitary by nature, though OCCASIONALLY work together for short periods of time for a common goal.
Shifters ARE anywhere on the spectrum between neutral and evil.
Shifters CANNOT breed with Angeni -- pure, domained, or any type that shows angeni traits!

Here are a few additional notes concerning cursedshifters.

1.) For pre-existing soquili who end up with corpse powder: you may continue to play them as themselves until you are ready to officially change them into a shifter. Meaning that any plots, RP, lifemating, relationships, etc may continue until you do one of the above mentioned points. You must not put the new form in your teepee or RP them as cursed.

2.) Once you officially curse them - meaning they go into your teepee with the pelt, and/or you have RPed them as cursed -- Backdated RP or not, you will not be able to enter wishing stars or mating raffles with their pre-cursed form. Essentially, once you go cursed, you can't go back or treat raffles/events as anything but a cursed-shifters. You may backdate RP with their peltless form or pre-cursed form, but that's it.

Additional Notes: The dark shaman Oyahusa is the only one that can curse a soquili into a shifter. He is the only one who can make the corpse powder, but it is possible that a crafty shifter or evil soquili might be able to steal some.

Pureshifters are thought to have come from the Demon Tree in the Indian Burial Ground. Like Angeni, while this dark otherworld might be mentioned but it cannot be RPed in or re-entered. Kalona are thought also to originate from the same demonic realm, released by the god Kalona before Oyahusa helped release the Pureshifters.

Cursedshifters will only throw non-cursed children, regardless if they mate with another shifter or not.

Pureshifters will only throw-pure children if they mate with another pureshifter. Pureshifter foals cannot turn into their feral form until they are an adult, even though they have a pelt.

There may be highly rare exceptions, but it is a minor shot that is rolled for, and should not be counted on or expected when breeding.

Description Overall:
Seathi are the smallest breed of all soquili at their full size. As an aquatic breed they have thin skin like mers that allows the passage of small amounts of oxygen through it. They can hold their breath for very long periods of time but they still must surface periodically as they do breathe air. A seathi has the upper half of a pony and the lower half of a seahorse complete with fins, curled tail and all.

Powers:

• Seathi can hold their breath for a couple days at a time while under the water.
  
• They can summon a wall of bubbles which can be semi-solid.
  
• Seathi can also speak underwater without using air to vibrate their vocal cords, allowing them to communicate clearly underwater with other underwater breeds.
  
  
• Elder seathi can breathe underwater fully as well as breathe air.
  
• They tend to be faster swimmers and stronger than their non-elder kin.
  
• They can stay out of the water longer than their non-elder kin.
  
  

Alignment:
Seathi can be any personality you wish.

Pureblood Requirements:

• Smooth hooves (templated for seathi or custom)
  
• Mane or seahorse fin hair (templated for seathi or custom)
  

Additional Notes: Both male and females can carry foals. While the female must first be impregnated, she can transfer them to the stallion for him to carry.

Description Overall:
Mer soquili are an aquatic breed. They have the upper half of a horse and the lower half of a fish or in rare cases a squid. These soquili have special eyes for seeing under the water and unique skin that allows the passage of air through it. They can stay underwater for a long time but do periodically need to head to the surface to breathe.

Powers:

• Mer can hold their breath for days at a time while under the water.
  
• They can manipulate nearby water currents to help them swim... or deter predators.
  
• Can speak underwater without using air to vibrate their vocal cords, allowing them to communicate clearly underwater with other underwater breeds.
  
  
• Elder mers can breathe underwater fully as well as breathe air.
  
• They are the fastest swimmers of all aquatic soq.
  
• They can stay out of the water longer than their non-elder kin.
  
• They can swim deeper than any of the other aquatic soquili.
  
  

Alignment:
Mers can be any personality you wish.

Pureblood Requirements:

• Smooth hooves (templated for mer or custom)
  
• Mane hair (templated for mer or custom)
  
• Fins (templated for mer or custom)
  

Additional Notes: Mers can breed with kelpi soquili. They often have a good relationship with the Merlaic.