Unicorns

Description

Appearance

• their torso resembles that of a cheetah, with a slender light build
  • a relatively robust and muscular chest/ rib-cage
  • small, slender abdomen
• their head resembles that of a deer, sometimes they also show a few more horse like characteristics
  • their nose is deer like in shape, but its colouration tends to more pink or or brown hues
  • their front teeth are typical of carnivorous animals, with long canines; in their back they have flat molars, similar to horses or goats
• their coat is short and shiny, like a horse's
  • colours usually tend to be on the lighter side (pastels, whites, light greys)
  • shiny, like a golden shimmer, iridescent or dual chrome sheen to their fur
• horse like mane
  • typically the colours of their mane are more saturated versions than their coat colour
• long singular horn protrudes from their forehead, which varies in light and bright colours
  • the horn feels like metal and is much heavier than the average horn when picked up
• long lion tail
• most males have a white goatee like beard

Abilities

• unicorns are said to be natural spellcasters

Diet

• omnivorous
• hunt using their horns and hooves, but also have a mean bite
• long canines

Habitat

TBD

Society

TBD

History

Tale on the creation of unicorns and unicorn jesus

• the first unicorn was created by Ao/ Genesis and sent to the Inner Planes where it would protect the forest of divine creation
  • it looked a lot more like a goat and deer with a bit of lion mixed in for good measure (no mane)
• one day, after humans were born, a young pure woman ran into the forest distraught by her being married off to a brutish man
• the unicorn found her crying under a tree and fell in love with her purity and youthful beauty
  • when the unicorn was struck by human feelings, from the corruption a bicorn was born
• the unicorn would lay in her lap and console the young woman
• upon learning of her marriage, the unicorn would feel a great injustice. The prospect of her purity being taken away by such a brutish human
• so the unicorn offered her freedom, it would offer her to ride on its back and take her deeper in the forest of divine creation
• once they arrive in the centre, the unicorn plunges its horn into her abdomen, pinning her against the tree (in the centre, find a name lmao)
• the unicorn sacrificed its own immortality and purity to grant her eternal freedom, and from her flesh rose a second unicorn
• the two unicorns would leave the forest and turn to the fae wilds, where they would have children, now tainted by human sin and desires
• the young woman would be known as the divine maiden, and worshipped as the virgin mother of all unicorns

Resulting religious rites

• the Divine Maiden is a figure of worship and is seen as a protector of unicorns
• the original unicorn Eachthighern is seen as the divine link to Ao and is of great importance to unicorns (referred as the father)
• there are special priestesses who remain virginal their entire life, representing the divine maiden
  • young humanoid women (who have to be pure and innocent) are sacrificed in religious rituals to purge communities and places of evil by having a priestess plunge their horn into their abdomen
  • once the young maiden is killed, the priestess looses her status as pure as they take on the sin of whatever she purified