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 Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2017 7:22 pm
The Cult of the sun is a priestly cult that celebrates the sun. The feel like their flames are a gift from the sun. The herd concept is based off of the Greek god Apollo . Following that train of thought the professions in the herd are namely musicians, prophets /shamans, healers. For the Dr Who fans think of the herd a bit like the Choristers and the Queen of years from the Dr.Who episode The Rings of Akhaten.
Beliefs
The Cult of the Sun celebrates lunar eclipses as they see the sun as trying to fight for power with the moon and a confirmation that sun is more powerful which they think makes them more powerful. During eclipses they feel like the sun is fighting it's counter part the moon. Solar eclipses are quite terrifying for them because they feel like the sun is loosing in it's battle against the moon.
Summer solstice the longest day of the year is the biggest day of celebration for the herd.The cult of the Sun invites many nearby herds to celebrate and feast with them. While winter solstice the shortest day of the year is a filled with praying, chanting and song all day and night long to strengthen the sun.
Herd members do not fear death because they believe that their inner fire will return to it's source the sun and they will become one with sun. On the other hand every time a new foal is born to the herd, they believe the sun has gifted the foal part of itself-the spark of flame.
Leadership rotates in the herd , not often but every time there is a partial or annular solar eclipse - the herd believes that the leader has failed. During total eclipse the herd believes that the sun is battling for it's life. The believe that the present leader has failed the sun and only the resignation and a great sacrifice from the current leader will strengthen the sun.
Professions are listed below but other jobs would be allowed if the herd thought that the profession honors the Sun.
Musicians; will sometimes leave herd territory to travel among other herds to share the glory of the sun through song. However there always has to be at least one musician in the herd lands to help sing the sacred songs to welcome the sun every morning at dawn and at dusk strengthen the sun during the night hours. The herd feels if the sun is not sung to, the sun will weaken and a great catastrophe will occur.
Prophets; The prophets are soq that believe they receive visions through their dreams. The think the sun is trying to communicate with them during the night while the sun is an a weaker state and cannot grace the sky with it's magnificence . Prophets do not have any magical powers but they believe they do and many other soq believe the do as well. Many soq pilgrimage to the sun cults herd for advice and prophesies.
Healers: Healers heal herd members as well as any soq or fam that pilgrimages to the sun cults territory.
Shaman's believe they also see visions but they have to ingest a flower or plant that was mildly hallucinogenic or mediate to get to a higher plane
-enter in the spirit world. The would probably want to find a fam/ or mate that they could anchor their souls to as they feel like entering the spirit would can be dangerous and they might lose their way to this plane of existence. Shamans don't tell outsiders what they have seen in the spirit world but will tell other herd members. They tend to be secretive about their profession.
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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 3:11 pm
Username: AislingJuno
Knight's Name and meaning:Cian meaning: The ancient one
Temper: courtly
Personality: 100 or fewer words
demeanor refined,Elegant like a graceful butterfly, aloof and frigid like the biting winter wind.
Other things of Note:Few aspects of everyday life interest Cian other then performing his tasks as a knight . He rarely has conversations with soq outside his family as he seldom pays attention to most soq outside his duties. However the few times Cian becomes interested in a thing or soq he can become a bit possessive. ex: That's a tasty flower-hmm all flowers of that kind should belong to me.
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 11:45 am
it's a smol pone!
your username:
tell me something about this little one: In many ways Puppet is a well rounded mix of both (his/her) parents. A bit dreamy over things that interest him/her and will often geek out -become super excited and talk faster and at a higher pitch about interesting plants and animals. She/ he will often go out into the soq lands with Dolly to learn all she/he can from Dolly wisdom and experience. Puppet will often draw and take notes on the local fauna and flora. She/he is making quite a big database on all the local varieties.
However She/he feels pity for all the innocent bugs Dolly eats. Puppet knows that his/her mother is whimsical and doesn't say anything when Dolly eats the bugs , but usually he/she turns his/her head away from the sight and hopes the bugs get reborn as a bigger creature in their next life. (Poor little Puppet -get's hearbroken so easily) However their are exceptions-Puppet is scaredy cat about one bug in particular worms. His/her father's tendency come out when looking at worms. Maybe because they don't have eyes or have no legs, but when Puppet see's one she/he heads for the hills. Puppet also find snakes creepy, but finds them less terrifying then worms. (Really Puppet, can't you realize your much bigger then a worm?)
Puppet is just has a one of those sunny personalities that make other soq want to be around him/her. While Puppet might look a bit scary on the outside he/she tends to be one of the sweetest little soqs around the soq lands. His/her cup is always full, though poppet can be dreadfully naive and he/she tends to think the best of every soq. The reason for this is Dolly, Patches, and most of the extended family look rather scary to most soq, but most of them are actually kind benevolent souls. Puppet doesn't judge soq on their appearance and since the family looks tend to be spooky side, Puppet naturally assumes that spooky soq are the highest form of soq beauty. Spiders, swamps, blood, gore those are just different forms of beauty to Puppet.
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name:Puppet
temper: - I'll wait to later to decide
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Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 11:04 am
Pastel is totally my rift ~
Deep and sultry is more my thing...
Username:AislingJuno
Name: Lavi Lolly Puff
Lavi- sanskrit female name meaning lion
Personality: Lavi is like a flower bud that slowly blooms over time. She gains beauty and majesty as she get's older. As a young foal she is deeply protective of her mother and siblings. She tries to always watch out for the best interests of her mother and acts dutiful to her elders. Though mistakes do happen and she can be really clumsy-it makes life interesting for her family.
When she starts spending time with the puff family her personality will change and she will start to bloom. They will corrupt/encourage her with their boisterous energy and she'll become more playful and outspoken about her desires/wants. This little lion will roar-
Entry:
Lavi is deeply aware of the pain her mother experienced when Rajiv and Vanille split up. She knows that the amount of offspring born to Vanille in his second breeding was more then he could handle. Despite her youth she makes a practical decision. Since the reason why her parents broke apart was because how 'blessed' the spirits made their breeding. She would go with her mom to help heal her mothers heartache as well as relieve some of the pressures of fatherhood placed on her dad. As a young foal Lavi feels a bit disappointed in her dad because she see's a lot of her mother heartache. Lavi tries to care for her mother the best she can and diligently listen and act out her role as daughter. It's quite the burden on a foal as young as Lavi, but children and foals will often try to act grown up in certain circumstances. Lavi understands the reason for her parents separation. She will not try to get her parents back together, but neither would she get in the way of any of her siblings that want to try to bring the pair back together.
As Lavi becomes older she starts to become aware that she's can't always take care of her mom. After all her mother is the parent and there is only so much support and advice she can give her. After all Rajiv loves to fall in love and is often prone to trowing herself headfirst into relationships. When Lavi is an adolescent her mother pushes her to go spend sometime with her fathers Puff family heritage and get to know the siblings that she was separated from.
Being introduced to the Puff Family is a bit of a culture shock for Lavi. She has always been a quiet and private little foal. The clamorous voices of her puff siblings is little more then she can handle at first. One sibling even remarks that Lavi isn't a Puff enough name . Lavi loves her name, but decides while she is in Puff territory maybe she should go by her Puff given name Lolly. Lavi wants to fit in with her siblings and try to get past her initial shyness- If calling her Lolly instead of Lavi allows them to accept her more easily then she is willing. At this time she is a soq torn between two words yet she doesn't feel like she fits in either.
Lavi often sneaks away from her Puff family to find a private patch of wildness that she can sing in private. Lavi has always liked to sing, she has a high clear voice but it was a nice vibrato and hidden depth. She was not born as an amazing vocal talent, but through practice she just keeps getting better and better. While she has sung for her mother and few times, Lavi tends to be really shy and secretive about her singing. However one day while she is staying with the Puffs, one of her Puff family siblings encounters her while she is privately singing. The sibling entourages her to sing in front of the rest of the family. Lavi is hesitant to sing so publicly, but trying to push herself she attempts it. While singing in front of her family her powerful voice comes out softly and she often has to take gasps for air in the middle of a sequence. Her performance it shaky and she feels like crying in humiliation. However instead of being critical of her performance the Puffs are exuberant about her performance and often try to trick her into singing for them. Causing Lavi to become for confident and comfortable with her Puff family. The Puff's often call Lavi, "Lolly the songbird," or Lolly the girl with the pipes." -It's originally thought that Jigglypuff's can't sing due to the bad publicity of one famous Jigglypuff-cough the pokemon Jigglypuff in the show.-
However Lavi through her hard work has an excellent voice and when she is an adult she will often travel part of the time around the soq lands singing for other soq. Lavi got a bit of a traveling itch after traveling with her mom. She spends part of the year with her mom, part of it with the Puffs and the other part traveling by herself or with one of her siblings.
Lavi has slowly bloomed into a beautiful flower as she has matured. She has gained confidence and become just as outspoken as her Puff siblings. She has no problem running around with them and giving voice to her needs. Lavi is always going to be protective about her mother and caring towards her siblings. Lavi sparkles and draws others attention especially when she is singing-she shines with an inner light.
However Lavi wants to learn from her parents mistakes. She is very hesitant to enter into a romantic relationship and it's going to take a very patient stallion or mare to get her to break from her relationship concerns. Lavi is also weary about making any kind of offering to the spirits. She believes they have a sense of humor and grant wishes that entertain them. Instead Lavi prefers to achieve what she wants through hard work and perseverance.
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:41 pm
Name of Child in Basket: Ashanti Earthstrike
-The meaning of Ashanti is Undefeated, Divine and Peace. Ashanti were African warriors who were one of the last to fall to European invasion in western Africa.
Username: AislingJuno
About Child:
It seemed like only moments after she took her first steps that she started dancing. As a young foal her hooves seldom stay still, but often the move to their own unique dance pattern. As a young foal she will be a hyper bundle of energy that has a hard time focusing on any task, but dancing which channels all of her energy. She is her happiest when she is dancing with her sister Sanaa, while her sister Lyana sings.
Like her mother, Ashanti is part of the performing guild as a dancer. She likes to try to recreate ancient dances especially looking through old books about harpy dances and interviewing harpy elders. Often time she will document the old dance steps, so the herd does not forget their traditional dances. (If she gets the feather tail, she will use her tail to write like an ink brush. If she doesn't then, she will gather feathers from any feathered male she helps capture.
Ashanti is really fascinated with any information she can about the Flocks past. She often reads any historical scrolls that she can come across. When learns new interesting old stories she will often pass that information to Lyana for her to use in the performance guild. Ashanti also gathers and brings home any historical item, no matter if the item is considered junk to all the other herd members. This is something that can irritate her nest mates.
She has a set of bells that she straps to her legs while she dances. She likes hearing the sound of the bells every time she puts her hooves on the ground.Ashanti is extremely prideful about her dancing. By nature she is not an aggressive mannered mare, but if Sanaa or her dancing ability is made fun of by a soq of a similar age she can be very cruel in her revenge.
Ashanti likes to hum to help her keep count of beats of music and she will often randomly hum throughout the day. While she can hum quite nicely her singing voice is a bit scratchy sounding and Ashanti feels self-conscious about her voice which often causes her singing to go off tune. However, she is able to mimic realistic bird cry's to a frightening degree, and she often uses her mimicry to signal other females during a hunting party.
Ashanti is of the mind that preening should be left to the male gender. While she doesn't like to have a disheveled appearance, she is not one to spend hours grooming herself like her father is prone to doing. Ashanti is not overly vain about her appearance, but she does not like to have her mane or feathers look frumpy.
Plots:
'Don't mess with my sister'- a foal plot . Ashanti overhears another foal remark on Sanaa dance abilities. She loses and is ready to go on a rampage. However her sisters hold her back, and she decides that she will get revenge on the other foal in a non violet way. Ashanti is really protective of her two younger sisters and she knows how hard they all work at their craft.
We call it family, but all families are different: Ashanti learns that the friendship between her two parents is different then other families. She asks her mother questions why some foals from other families don't interact with their sire.
The Elder: Ashanti on her quest for knowledge encounters an elderly mare who in her younger days had been a part of performance guild. Instead of being exasperated by youngsters questions. The mare becomes amused, and the two of them start an unlikely friendship.The mare becomes her mentor.
Precious or Junk: Ashanti has collected one to many 'historical items' or junk as everyone else refers to them. Enough is enough her nest-mates call her out and give her an ultimatum either she stops her hoarder tendencies or she has to move out of the cave.
The stranger: Ashanti is going to meet a non harpy mare on the borderline of the harpy territory. Instead of chancing off the mare she is going to be intrigued by the others knowledge. For a bit she is going to imagine life outside harpy territory, but acknowledges that while the outside world seems fascinating it can't pull at her heart more then her sisters both blood and herd and her dancing.
Impress me: Ashanti does not have the kind heart here mother has towards males. It's not that she doesn't like them, but it's more like she hardly spares them a glance. However when the time comes that she wants offspring she will be looking for one trait- dancing. She fully expects to encounter some birds of paradise courting .
Any Additional Info: It's best to think of her as a bird. She is very similar to a bird; she has a fascination with collecting, is attracted to pretty feathers, imitates bird's songs, and loves to puff up her chest and dance.
She is always going to stay in the flock. Her sisters and dancing is where all here energy goes. Hunting for males doesn't interest her much, but she likes to collect unusual objects and is a hoarder of trophies. She will participate in the hunt for trophies and if the male has feathers she will take one of the feathers especially if the feather is bright colored. Ashanti holds great deal of respect towards Vanya and views the older mare as her ideal Harpy female. She admires Vanya's, tenacity and hard working nature.
RP Examples: Recently I've been doing self rp.
Do you own any Males in the Flock (and if so how many/who)?: I own no flock members or males in the flock.
Why do you want to Join the Flock?: I became interested in the harpies during the WoW event. Their society is really fascinating and unique. I do not know of another herd on the soq lands that has a similar hierarchy. The harpies culture is very complex and they have a big interesting back story. I have an AA in History and Anthropology, and their unique social system is something I could really sink my teeth into ^_^
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:59 pm
Himmel and Tisiphone
Tisiphone stood in front of the notorious cave, which featured prominently in her childhood adventures. Despite the numerous caves located in the forest's cave system, only one cave was known for its notorious cave inhabitant.
As a foal, she was mesmerized by the stories of the monster in the cave. In daring fashion she had escaped from her parents protective outreach and sought out the soq called monster by all the local inhabits. If Tisiphone had been older at the time she might have had a stronger survival sense. Her fearlessness was due to her youth and naitivety ,yet the adventure did not end in trgendy. Surprisly her youthful adventure had ended with a positive resolution. Tisiphone had found the soq called monster and faced the legendary soq with red eyes and foreboding black wings. Like the rumors implied, the stallions grasp on sanity was tenious at best. Realising her mistake Tisiphone had been prepared for the stallion to hurt her or even kill her. After all at the time she was just a illequiped foal who had no protection agaisn't even a full sized adult let alone a giant soq. Yet the red eyed giant did not hurt her, and he even seemed afraid to come near her. She returned to her family but kept her adventure secret.
"Shadow" Tisiphone whispered in a slightly fearful but reverent way.
-afraid of the mysterious/unworldly being. placed a flower -pure white with a thin green stalk. A slightly sweet smell that rather than being sticky sweet was instead refreshing.
they only bloom in late spring and early summer
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 8:38 pm
His dream-the little a
Childhood dreams, she whisper into his ear before he went to sleep. "my little adventure" Bastien wanted to showcase his skill honed through the years
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Posted: Fri May 31, 2024 6:31 pm
Teacup Rose ‘Tea’ gazed at the flower fields that made up the Rose family territory. It was late spring, a crucial time, filled with anticipation and hope, for planting cool-season crops. The Rose family and all affiliated associates were eager to extend the growing season. All herd members were working in the fields regardless of their primary profession. Teacup was not born into the Rose family, but like many of its members, he joined the group because of his horticultural interest and the warmth of the family, which accepted all. The group was organized into four main groups: those who spent their time tending to the plants, those who created medicine and objects derived from plant products, the night tenders referred to as “Night Roses,” and lastly, the travelers who spread the flower and medicinal products throughout the land. Teacup belonged to the group's growers, and today's planned activities were part of his routine. Teacup was one of the first group members to make their way to the fields, and he nodded to the Night Roses, the group's nighttime protectors who guarded the fields while the rest of the herd slept. The Night Roses had finished their shift and were excepted from today's growing activities. As Teacup walked into the fields, he spotted one of the nearest field protectors, a family of Garden Gnomes. The family of gnomes each spotted a bright yellow hat and a cheeky smile. The older female character also had a wink painted on her face. All fields had gnome protectors, but this field hosted one of the first gnome families rumored to be created by the founder of the Rose family. With a whistle, Teacup entered the field to do some weeding before the other garden tenders showed up. It was important to manage the weeds because they could strangle and take nutrients from the soil, depriving the Rose group’s cultivated flowers and plants. Weeds had made their way into the soil seed bank but cover crops were planted to prevent the widespread growth of weeds but in a few places the weeds managed to peak out.
Since Teacup was not a related member of the Rose group, Teacup always tried to do the best in the fields. Since the family had given him a home, he felt a strong sense of responsibility for any task assigned to him. As Teacup pulled out weeds that
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