Thordia

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Name: Thordia
Age: eight
Gender: Mare
Species: Horse
Height: 14 hands
Coat Color: black minimal overo
Markings: Thordia boasts a war bonnet type 'bald mask' and an extended stocking. These are the extent of her splash-overo markings. She bears scars all over her body. An assortment of slash-type scars from both flailing hooves and claws as well as teeth from horses and predators alike. The worst of her scars came from a fire. A burn on her right shoulder and underside of her jaw as well as a torn ear, a slash on her right eye and three slashes down her nose from the trees she got caught up in trying to escape.

Eye Color: Right Eye - brown/blue // Left Eye - brown
Breeds or Body Type: Warmblood ;; based off of a dales pony, friesian, andalusian cross. Thordia is a short, stocky mare. She has the thick, arched neck of a typical friesian, a slightly roman-nose and large hooves. A short dense feathering tops the upper parts of her hooves. Her mane and tail are fairly long and curly. Her eyes are slightly large for her face and her nostrils are almost always flared.

History: Thordia was orphaned at birth. Her mother died of hemorrhaging and her father died protecting the pair from a rabid wolf. Thordia's god-father took her in. He'd come looking for the Thordia's parents when they didn't return before sundown. He brought her into a small band of Nomads and raised her mostly oblivious to the world out there and it's history. Not knowing about the Kings and their downfall until her God-Father's dyeing breath, she set out away from the Nomad herd - despite their pleas that the mare stay with them and defend them. In his dieting breath Rhoan had told her that her mother had actually been a servant in one of the royal families. Shocked and enthralled Thordia became determined to find and learn everything she could about the past kings and the future's legends.

She came across quite a few trials in her travels, fighting off other horses as well as predators. When she was five she ran into a lightning-started wild fire. Barely surviving the fire alive she bears scars on her shoulder. The only marks left from her battle with the flames. Though she's withstand quite a few hardships she knows theirs more to come and is ready to face it with the same determination to survive that she's had all her life. Love is one of the few trials that she hasn't had to deal with and - she hopes - never will. Laying down her life for another is not something she cares for. She doesn't believe in self sacrifice.