Rules

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R U L E S

`Follow the form for your character creation. Yes you can put a reference picture, but don't add any crazy things to it. This will make it easier and faster for me to accept your character.

`There is a secret password, you'll find it somewhere in this thread. You need this so I know you read the rules. You only need to find it once, unless you are told other wise.

*the password must be sent to me through PM, with your character's name as the subject!

`Everything has to be realistic, including coat, eye, mane, etc. Unless bought at the store.

`There is a taken name list, its there for a reason, you will not be accepted if you have the same name. Be creative!

`Follow these basic rules and it will be MUCH easier for the both of us!

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A

• Abtenauer
  
• Ahkhal-Teke
  
• American Indian Horse
  
• American Paint Horse
  
• American Quarter Horse
  
• American Saddlebred
  
• American Warmblood
  
• Andalusian horse
  
• Appaloosa
  
• Arabian
  
• Ardennes
  

B

• Banker
  
• Bashkir Curly Horse
  
• Bavarian Warmblood
  
• Belgian Draft
  
• Breton
  

C

• Camargue
  
• *Camarillo White Horse
  
• Canadian horse
  
• Clydesdale
  

D

• Dales Pony
  
• Dutch Draft
  
• Dutch Warmblood
  

E

• East Bulgarian
  
• Estonian Native Horse
  
• Exmoor
  

F

• Falabella
  
• First word is 'the'
  
• Fjord Horse
  
• Florida Cracker
  
• Friesian
  

G

• Galiceno
  
• Gelderland
  
• Gidran
  
• Groningen horse
  

H

• Hackney
  
• Haflinger
  
• Hanoverian
  
• Holsteiner
  

I

• Icelandic Horse
  
• Irish Sport Horse
  
• Italian Heavy Draft
  

J

• Java pony
  
• Jutland
  

K

• Kabardin
  
• Karabakh
  
• Knabstrup
  
• Konik
  

L

• Lipizzaner
  
• Lithuanian Heavy Draft
  
• Lokai
  
• Lusitano
  

M

• Mangalarga Marchador
  
• Mecklenburger
  
• Merens Pony
  
• Morab
  
• Morgan
  
• Moroccan Barb
  
• Murgese
  
• Mustang
  

N

• Nonius
  
• Noriker
  
• North Swedish horse
  
• Novokirghiz
  

O

• Oldenburg
  
• Orlov Trotter
  
• Ostfriesen/Alt-Oldenburger
  

P

• Percheron
  
• Peruvian Paso
  
• Pleven
  

Q

• -
  

R

• Rocky Mountain Horse
  
• Russian Don
  
• Russian Trotter
  

S

• Shetland pony
  
• Shire horse
  
• Spanish Mustang
  

T

• Tarpan
  
• Tennessee Walking Horse
  
• Thoroughbred
  
• Trakehner
  

U

• Ukrainian Riding Horse
  

V

• Virginia highlander
  
• Vyatka
  

W

• Walkaloosa
  
• Welsh Pony
  
• Westphalian
  

X

• -
  

Y

• Yonaguni;
  

Z

• Zweibruken;
  

There are many more breeds to choose from! I've listed a couple, please be creative and use breeds you've never heard of!

`those with the bold star mean they have a 50% chance of succesful foal birth. Due to the genes that the horse carries. This is a warning to those who want to have foals with their equine.

references links;
Horse Breeds List
Wikipedia

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Coat Colors

• Bay: Body color ranges from a light reddish-brown to very dark brown with "black points." (Points refer to the mane, tail, and lower legs). The main color variations are: Dark bay: very dark red or brown hair, difficult to distinguish from seal brown. Sometimes also called "black bay," "mahogany bay," or "brown."
  

  Blood bay: bright red hair; often considered simply "bay."
  Brown: The word "brown" is used by some breed registries to describe dark bays. There is a distinct allele that darkens a bay coat to seal brown (At), but it is not the cause of all forms of dark bay. Informally, "brown" is applied to many distinct coat colors. Most often, horses described by casual observers as "brown" are actually bay or chestnut. In the absence of DNA testing, chestnut and bay can be distinguished from each other by looking at the mane, tail and legs for the presence of black points.

  
  
  
• Chestnut: A reddish body color with no black. Mane and tail are the same shade or lighter than the body coat. The main color variations are:
  

  Liver chestnut: very dark brown coat. Sometimes a liver chestnut is also simply called "brown."
  Sorrel: Reddish-tan to red coat, about the color of a new penny. The most common shade of chestnut.
  Blond or light chestnut: seldom-used term for lighter tan coat with pale mane and tail that is not quite a dun

  
  
  
• Gray: A horse with black skin but white or mixed dark and white hairs. Gray horses can be born any color, and lighten as they age. Most will eventually gray out to either a complete white or a "fleabitten" hair coat. Most "white" horses are actually grays with a fully white hair coat. A gray horse is distinguished from a white horse by dark skin, particularly noticeable around the eyes, muzzle, flanks, and other areas of thin or no hair. Variations of gray that a horse may exhibit over its lifetime include: Salt and Pepper or "steel" gray: Usually a younger horse, an animal with white and dark hairs evenly intermixed over most of the body.
  

  Dapple gray: a dark-colored horse with lighter rings of graying hairs, called dapples, scattered throughout.
  Fleabitten gray: an otherwise fully white-haired horse that develops red hairs flecked throughout the coat.
  Rose gray: a gray horse with a reddish or pinkish tinge to its coat. This color occurs with a horse born bay or chestnut while the young horse is "graying out."

  
  
  
• Black: Black is relatively uncommon, though not "rare." There are two types of black, fading black and non-fading black. Most black horses will fade to a brownish color if the horse is exposed to sunlight on a regular basis. Non-fading black is a blue-black shade that does not fade in the sun. Genetically, the two cannot yet be differentiated, and some claim the difference occurs due to management rather than genetics, though this claim is hotly disputed. Most black foals are usually born a mousy grey or dun color. As their foal coat begins to shed out, their black color will show through, though in some breeds black foals are born jet black. For a horse to be considered black, it must be completely black except for white markings. A sun-bleached black horse is still black, even though it may appear to be a dark bay or brown. A visible difference between a true black and a dark chestnut or bay is seen in the fine hairs around the eyes and muzzle; on a true black these hairs are black, even if the horse is sun-bleached, on other colors, they will be lighter.
  
  
• Brindle - One of the rarest colors in horses, possibly linked to chimerism. Characteristics are any color with "zebra-like" stripes, but most common is a brown horse with faint yellowish markings.

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[/li][li]Buckskin- A bay horse with one copy of the cream gene, a dilution gene that 'dilutes' or fades the coat color to a yellow, cream, or gold while keeping the black points (mane, tail, legs).

[/li][li]Champagne: Produced by a different dilution gene than the cream gene. It lightens both skin and hair, but creates a metallic gold coat color with mottled skin and light colored eyes. Champagne horses are often confused with palomino, cremello, dun, or buckskins.

[/li][li]Cream dilution, an incomplete dominant gene that produces a partially diluted coat color with one copy of the allele and a full dilution with two copies. Colors produced include Palomino, Buckskin, Perlino, Cremello and Smoky Cream or Smoky black.

[/li][li]Cremello - A horse with a chestnut base coat and two cream genes that wash out almost all color until the horse is a pale cream or light tan color. Often called "white," they are not truly white horses, and they do not carry the white (W) gene. A cremello usually has blue eyes.

[/li][li]Dun: Yellowish or tan coat with primitive markings, sometimes called "dun factors:" a darker-colored mane and tail, a dorsal stripe along the back and occasionally faint horizontal zebra stripings on the upper legs and a possible transverse stripe across the withers. There are several variations of dun:

Grullo, Grulla, or Blue Dun: A horse with a black base color and the dun gene. Coat is solid "mouse-colored" gray or silver with black or dark gray primitive markings.
Red dun: A chestnut base coat with dun factors. Coat is usually pale yellow or tan with chestnut (red) primitive markings.
"Bay dun" or "Zebra dun" are terms sometimes used to describe the classic dun color of yellow or tan with black primitive markings, used when necessary to distinguish it from red duns or grullos.
"Buckskin dun" or "Yellow dun" describes a dun that also carries the cream gene dilution and has a coat of pale gold with black mane, tail, legs and primitive markings.

[/li][li]Leopard: There are a group of coat patterns caused by the leopard gene complex. It should be noted that not every horse with leopard genetics will exhibit hair coat spotting. However, even solid individuals will exhibit secondary characteristics such as vertically striped hooves, mottled skin around the eyes, lips, and genitalia, plus a white sclera of the eye. Several breeds of horse can boast leopard-spotted (a term used collectively for all patterns) individuals including the Knabstrupper, Noriker, and the Appaloosa. There are several distinct leopard patterns:

blanket: white over the hip that may extend from the tail to the base of the neck. The spots inside the blanket (if present) are the same color as the horse's base coat.
varnish roan: a mix of body and white hairs that extends over the entire body—no relation to true roan
snowflake: white spots on a dark body. Typically the white spots increase in number and size as the horse ages.
leopard: dark spots of varying sizes over a white body.
few spot leopard: a nearly white horse from birth that retains color just above the hooves, the knees, 'armpits', mane and tail, wind pipe, and face
frost: similar to varnish but the white hairs are limited to the back, loins, and neck.

[/li][li]Palomino: chestnut horse that has one cream dilution gene that turns the horse to a golden, yellow, or tan shade with a flaxen or white mane and tail. Often cited as being a color "within three shades of a newly minted gold coin," palominos range in shades from extremely light, almost cremello, to deep chocolate, but always with a white or flaxen mane and tail.

[/li][li]Pearl: Also called the "barlink factor," A dilution gene that when homozygous, lightens red coats to a uniform apricot-like color, often also resulting in horses with blue eyes. When combined with cream dilution, may produce horses that appear to be cremello or perlino

[/li][li]Perlino: similar to a cremello, but is genetically a bay base coat with two dilute genes. Eyes are blue. Mane, tail and points are not black, but are usually darker than the body coat, generally a reddish or rust color, not to be confused with a red dun.

[/li][li]Pinto: a multi-colored horse with large patches of brown, white, and/or black and white. Variations include:

Piebald: a black and white spotting pattern (term more commonly used in the UK than the USA)
Skewbald: a spotting pattern of white and any other color other than black, or a spotting pattern of white and two other colors, which may include black. (term more commonly used in the UK than the USA).
Overo: Describes a group of spotting patterns genetically distinct from one another, characterized by sharp, irregular markings with a horizontal orientation, usually more dark than white. In some cases, the face is usually white, often with blue eyes. The white rarely crosses the back, and the lower legs are normally dark. Variations include "Frame Overo" and "Splashed white." Sometimes Sabino below is also classified in the overo family.
Sabino: Often confused with roan or rabicano, a slight spotting pattern characterized by high white on legs, belly spots, white markings on the face extending past the eyes and/or patches of roaning patterns standing alone or on the edges of white markings
Tobiano: Spotting pattern characterized by rounded markings with white legs and white across the back between the withers and the dock of the tail, usually arranged in a roughly vertical pattern and more white than dark, with the head usually dark and with markings like that of a normal horse. i.e. star, snip, strip, or blaze.
Tovero: spotting pattern that is a mix of tobiano and overo coloration, such as blue eyes on a dark head. May also refer to horses with Tobiano coloring that carry a recessive overo gene.
Paint: pinto horses with known Quarter Horse and/or Thoroughbred bloodlines. This is a separate breed of horse.

[/li][li]Rabicano: A roan-like effect that is caused by a genetic modifier that creates a mealy, splotchy, or roaning pattern on only part of the body, usually limited to the underside, flanks, legs, and tail head areas. Unlike a true roan, much of the body will not have white hairs intermingled with solid ones, nor are the legs or head significantly darker than the rest of the horse.

[/li][li]Roan: a color pattern that causes white hairs to be evenly intermixed within the horse's body color. Roans are distinguishable from greys because roans typically do not change color in their lifetimes, unlike gray that gradually gets lighter as a horse ages. Roans also have heads that are either solid-colored or much darker than their body hair, and do not lighten. Variations of roan include:

Red Roan: A chestnut base coat with roaning pattern with the mane and tail being the same red as the body. Red roans are also commonly referred to as a Strawberry Roan, and the term Red Roan is occasionally is used to describe a Bay Roan.
Bay Roan: A Bay base coat with roaning pattern (the mane and tail of the Bay Roan will be Black). Bay roans are sometimes also called Red Roans.
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Blue Roan: A black with roaning pattern, not to be confused with a gray or a blue dun/grullo. A roan tends to have a darker head, while grays not only lighten with age, but their heads tend to lighten before the rest of their bodies. A blue roan has mixed-color hairs, a blue dun will usually be a solid color and have dun striping.

[/li][li]Silver dapple: Caused by a dilution gene that only acts upon black hair pigment, it lightens black body hair to a chocolate brown and the mane and tail to silver. The gene may be carried but will not be visible on horses with a red base coat. Silver dapple horses may also be called Chocolate, Flax, or Taffy.

[/li][li]Smoky black: Horse visually appears to be either a black with a mildly bleached-out coat or a dull dark bay, but is actually has a black base coat and one copy of the cream gene.

[/li][li]Smoky Cream: Virtually indistinguishable from a cremello or perlino without DNA testing, a horse with a black base coat and two copies of the cream gene.

[/li][li]White: One of the rarest colors, a white horse has white hair and fully or largely unpigmented (pink) skin. These horses are born white, with blue or brown eyes, and remain white for life. The vast majority of so-called "white" horses are actually grays with a fully white hair coat. A truly white horse that lives to adulthood occurs one of two ways: either by inheriting one copy of a dominant white ("W") gene, of which several have been identified, or is a particular type of sabino that is homozygous for the "SB-1" gene. However, a foal with the genetic disease known as Lethal white syndrome dies shortly after birth. There are no "albinos" in the horse world. Albino, defined as animals with a white coat with pink skin and reddish eyes, is created by genetic mechanisms that do not exist in horses. In some cases, homozygous dominant white is thought to be an embryonic lethal, though this has not been established for all white horses.[/color]

COAT MODIFIERS:

[/li][li]Sooty is a genetic modifier that causes dark hairs to be dispersed within the coat, darkening the whole coat.

[/li][li]Pangare is a modifier that is the opposite of sooty, it causes individual hairs to lighten, causing lightened areas on the muzzle, flank and belly of a horse.

[/li][li]"Flaxen" used only to describe the lightened mane and tail of a chestnut, has been proposed as a genetic modifier, particularly when it appears to be a trait of certain breeds. However, the genetic mechanism of this process has yet to be identified.
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reference links;
Wikipedia[/left]

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Markings

Face

• Blaze: a wide white stripe down the middle of the face.
  
• Strip, stripe, or race: a narrow white stripe down the middle of the face.
  
• Bald Face: a very wide blaze, extending to or past the eyes. Some, but not all, bald faced horses also have blue eyes.
  
• Star: a white marking between or above the eyes. If a stripe or blaze is present, a star must be significantly wider than the vertical marking to be designated separately.
  
• Snip: a white marking on the muzzle, between the nostrils.
  

Legs

• Stocking: white marking that extends at least to the bottom of the knee or hock, sometimes higher.
  
• Sock: white marking that extends higher than the fetlock but not as high as the knee or hock. This marking is sometimes called a "boot."
  
• Fetlock or Sock: white marking that extends over the fetlock, occasionally called a "boot."
  
• Pastern: white marking that extends above the top of the hoof, but stops below the fetlock.
  
• Coronet: white just above the hoof, around coronary band, usually no more than 1 inch (2.5cm) above the hoof.
  

reference links;
Wikipedia

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