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    verruchter@menagerie.ne
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    Equine Mythos

    IM>Greetings,
    >My PCs have started asking me questions about a couple of rather famous, and
    >rather appropriate monsters in BR, that is Pegasi and Unicorns. The question
    >is: Do they exist here and if so where? On top of that rather basic question
    >I have one of my own. Unicorns are naturally magical creatures, so how does
    >the unique nature of magic in Cerilia affect them? Are they living Sources
    >like Dragons, and thus can cast Realm Spells?, or are they able to tap the
    >magic and use it in another way(cast unique spells, access various BAs,
    >etc.) Anyone have any comments, or suggestions? I'd like to hear them.

    Thats a rather good question. I like the idea of Unicorns being living
    Sources.
    A while back I asked myself, "What happened to the horses at Mt.
    Deismaar?" It seemed to me that they would have absorbed some "God
    Essence". I was planning on making a list of bloodpowers and abilities
    for equines but after realizing what a massive undertaking it would be,
    decided against it.

    Verrucht

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    Krazy Kat
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    Equine Mythos

    There's some information about the BS pegasus on page 119 of the Blood
    Enemies book.
    - -Ken

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    Jonathan Picklesimer
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    Equine Mythos

    On Wed, 30 Apr 1997 verruchter@menagerie.net wrote:

    > IM>BTW, where did you guys read that dragons were sources in themselves?
    >
    > IM>Robin
    >
    > The Book of Magecraft.
    >

    Where in the BoM? I have read it almost three times now, and I don't
    remember it?

    jsp

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    Undertaker
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    Equine Mythos

    At 10:37 PM 4/30/97 -0400, (MHahn59022@aol.com)wrote:
    >
    >I just checked the BoM page by page and found no refrence to dragons, source
    >or otherwise in it. I belevive the refrence was either in an artical in
    >Dragon or in a posting on this list.
    >
    >Please don't ask me for the Dragon issue's number. I don't know the exact
    >issue.
    >

    Thats where I'm sure I first heard about Dragons containing the power of a
    Source. I believe it was right around issue #230, in an article about a
    Cerilian Dragon. Only later had I heard it was mentioned in the BoM.
    Although I've never seen it there myself(in truth I haven't looked for it
    there).

    Reffering back to my original Post, the Unicorn of Ilien(specifically the
    Erebannien)has been seen for centuries, even before the battle at Mt.
    Deismaar. And is known to arrive during times of trouble. Could this be the
    same Unicorn? Isn't more likely that it is a Unicorn from a herd of them
    that dwells somewhere, and it has been a different Unicorn each time? What
    if Cerilian Unicorns are naturally invisable and always act as if affected
    by a "Pass Without Trace" spell, this would allow these creatures to live
    undetected in the Erebannien. The legends surrounding this forest show that
    anyone entering these woods can feel an almost magical aura in those woods.
    Another sign of the Unicorn's presence? Could they have something to do with
    the connection between these woods and the Shadow World? And do they have
    powers beyond that of standard Unicorns? Although its unlikely that we will
    guess the answers correctly, I'm just wondering what everyone thinks about
    this situation.

    And one has to wonder about the Pegasus. Could Haelyn's steed been spending
    all these years alone in the Seamist Mountains? Maybe he has taken mates in
    the years past, and somewhere in a seculeded valley a small herd of Pegasi
    await a noble call. Finding this valley could be the stuff of heroic
    ballads. Again any thoughts?


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    L.Willett
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    Equine Mythos

    >> Well actually I was thinking along other lines. First I wanted to name
    >> the various horse types according to their location in Cerilia. For
    >> example, in our world if there were "Khinasi" they would have horses
    >> like the Barb or naturally Arabians. I figure the Anduirians would
    >> have like Clydesdales and Percherons. The Rjurik, who knows?
    >> I wanted to come up with new horse "type" names and assign them to
    >> specific races. That would be really hard. When I stopped I came up
    >> with these.
    >>
    >
    >Fantastic! Now if a varsk, with a tighmivreal tip on its tail were to
    >stab a blooded Annuirean horse through the heart, ... :)

    Is that gonna start a "Is my mount blooded ? and could I know tell ?"
    thread. What about breeding blooded horses ? Guess this will really
    raises the price of a good stud....

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    Jonathan Picklesimer
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    Equine Mythos

    On Thu, 1 May 1997 verruchter@menagerie.net wrote:

    > Well actually I was thinking along other lines. First I wanted to name
    > the various horse types according to their location in Cerilia. For
    > example, in our world if there were "Khinasi" they would have horses
    > like the Barb or naturally Arabians. I figure the Anduirians would
    > have like Clydesdales and Percherons. The Rjurik, who knows?
    > I wanted to come up with new horse "type" names and assign them to
    > specific races. That would be really hard. When I stopped I came up
    > with these.
    >

    Fantastic! Now if a varsk, with a tighmivreal tip on its tail were to
    stab a blooded Annuirean horse through the heart, ... :)

    jsp

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    PRiley3002@aol.co
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    Equine Mythos

    "Spiderhead" in German is spinnekopf (spin-e-kop-f)

    The Golden Griffon

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    John Charles Post
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    Equine Mythos

    In the Roesone source book, one of the sources that the Count of
    Ilien controls is a buried dragon's skeleton. The dragon died
    years ago, but its carcass still eminates power.

    On Thu, 1 May 1997 verruchter@menagerie.net wrote:

    > IM> Where in the BoM? I have read it almost three times now, and I don't
    > > remember it?
    >
    > My mistake. I guess I just read it on the AOL message board.
    >
    > Verrucht
    >
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    Rasmus Juul Wagner
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    Equine Mythos

    On Fri, 2 May 1997 MHahn59022@aol.com wrote:

    > If anyone will look at page 89 in the Birthright rulebook, there is a list of
    > monsters that are "commonly ... encountered" in Cerilia. I states that there
    > are pegasii and unicorns, as well as other personal favorates such as hell
    > hounds, owlbears, and other assorted death dealing monstrosities that my
    > players wake up in cold sweets about to this day. (I am a DM, if no could
    > tell.)

    Cold sweets. You dump frozen gummy-bears in their beds while they
    sleep? :-)


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    KAI BESTE
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    Equine Mythos

    > > IM>BTW, where did you guys read that dragons were sources in
    themselves? > >
    > > IM>Robin
    > >
    > > The Book of Magecraft.
    > >
    >
    > Where in the BoM? I have read it almost three times now, and I don't
    > remember it?
    >
    > jsp
    > >>
    >
    > I just checked the BoM page by page and found no refrence to dragons, source
    > or otherwise in it. I belevive the refrence was either in an artical in
    > Dragon or in a posting on this list.

    It's definately somewhere in the Birthright stuff, maybe on the
    cardsheet about Cerilian Dragons.

    c ya
    Kai

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