Samanayrs

Bloom of the Spring Desert
Span of Jagged Horizon
Sparkle of Dewy Grass
Hum of the Waiting Ember
Dawn of the Joyful Earth
Dance of the Rainbow Light
Sweep of the Bold Isle
Cuddle of the Southern Skies
Searing of the Sands Aflame
Hiss of the Faded Coral
Scrap of Windblown Mischief
Flare of the Spiky Temper
Puff of the Approaching Autumn
Gyre of the Bleached Sands
Pining of the Poison Arrow
Expectation of the Unopened Egg
Keeper of the Frozen Rings
Triumph of the Instained Scroll
Companion of Winter Warmth
Jewel of the Ocean Mist
Tingle of the Sweet Mint
Mystic of the Blazing Oasis
Caution of the Muted Vivacity
Chirp of the Harmonic Echo
Wink of the Flirtatious Gypsy
Blast of the Bleached Sky
Luster of the Iridescent Chestnut
Wrath of the Torn Earth
Thunder of the River Valley
Churn of the Rushing River
Spectrum
Trumpet of the Victorious Past
Pattern of the Delicious Art
Venom of the Sanguine Orb
Surge of the Desert Tides
Mystic (Growing Sam)
Misery of the Broken Stone
Prize of the Victorious Strike
Sprawl of the Lazy-Summer Afternoon
Snap of the Arctic Midnight
Discontent of the Household Lion
Healer of Lost Souls

Samanayr name
Bloom of the Spring Desert

RP Font Color
#BF0040

Gender
Mare

Species
Desert

Age
Adult, still in her prime

Physical description
Most of her body is an almost purple tinged brown covered with small black spots. At the points her color fades into a pale green. Her mane and tail tuft are both white. Her eyes and hooves are gold. She has a set of pale green draconic wings.

Personality
Bloom is a very bubbly, friendly, outgoing sort of a gal. She's not exactly the brightest Sam around, but she's endlessly cheerful and happy-go-lucky. As she has grown older Bloom has settled down a bit, but she continues to act younger than she is.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Flight

History
Coming soon

Song
Song of the Rainbow IV

Likes
Flying, company, talking

Dislikes
Being alone, being told to be quiet, sour foods

Aspirations and goals
Coming soon

Fears
Sandstorms

Favorite color
All of them (Glint makes a splendid stallion for her because she can occupy herself by staring at him and pondering which color she likes the best)

Odd fact
Though Bloom and Searing of the Sands Aflame are both from wild parents, they are actually siblings and within a few days of being the same age

Samanayr name
Span of Jagged Horizon

Gender
Mare

Species
Samanayr

Age
Adult

Physical description
Span is mostly green with rusty brown and pale blue splotches. Her hooves, mane and tail are all black. Her eyes are a darker blue than her fur.

Personality
She is not the most easy to get along with Sam. Span is almost arrogantly certain that she is always right and is a bit of a snob, without actually having any reason. Her nose is often in the air and she does not want to talk with you. Unless she does. In which case she will let you know. Otherwise she'll ignore you most likely.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Nothing special

History
Coming...eventually. When she deems it suitable to share it with me...

Song
None and not looking thank you very much

Likes
Herself, praise, compliments, feeling superior

Dislikes
Too friendly Sams, pushy males, stupidity

Aspirations and goals
To make it on her own without having to rely on any male. Just what 'it' is no one, including Span, exactly knows.

Fears
Being teased or put down, that she's not as good as she thinks she is

Favorite color
Why would she tell you that? (a.k.a. she won't tell me either)

Odd fact
I always want to mentally insert 'the' into her name



Name
Grace

Gender
Female

Species
Kreenasa Dragonet

About
Though Span insists that she is an awkward and ungainly creature with an ironic name...Grace really does suit her name. And she is quite cheerfully oblivious to Span's public distaste for her, which hints that Span might just have a softer side in private. Or else Grace is really stubborn or possessed of some unknown motive to make her stay. Grace is a quiet little thing most of the time, but generally happy and seemingly quite content to glide along behind Span and keep her company.

Samanayr name
Sparkle of Dewy Grass

Gender
Mare

Species
Samanayr-Lamanayr Hybrid

Age
Young Adult

Physical description
Sparkle is mostly a pale minty green with a white belly. But all four of her legs are rainbow patterned, the hind legs more faintly than the front legs. Her mane and tail tuft are mostly white but have dark green tips. She has large black eyes and white hooves. Most of the time she can be seen holding herself in a half cringing posture.

Personality
Sparkle is painfully shy, which comes of as rather fearful most of the time. She is easily spooked and hates talking to strangers. Unfortunately...this means she seldom give others a chance to become more familiar so that they stop being strangers. She isn't quite sure what to make of being lead mare of her Song, but she is slowly coming out of her shell as a result.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
None that she is aware of

History
Coming eventually

Song
Song of the Resonant Echo

Likes
Solitude, quiet, her Mystic stallion

Dislikes
Noise, fuss, being forced to interact with strangers

Aspirations and goals
She hasn't decided on any

Fears
Strangers, public speaking, straying too far from her comfort zone

Favorite color
Grey and green; they're soft, soothing colors to her

Odd fact
Her father was a hybrid as well

Samanayr name
Hum of the Waiting Ember

Gender
Mare

Species
Samanayr

Age
Adult

Physical description
Hum is vivid, fiery shades, from her red body to her orange belly and her bright yellow legs and face. She sports a pair of very sharp pronged red-gold antlers and has vivid red eyes and hooves. Her mane and tail continue the red theme. Her tail is very short and stubby, but don't make fun of it if you value your skin intact. She is very lean and fit.

Personality
Hum's personality is just as fiery as her appearance. She's a very fierce young mare, quick to anger and slow to cool down. Cross her path and she'll do her best to tree you, or possibly trample, gouge, and gore you. She does not however tend to attempt to kill, because what use is beating someone if they aren't around anymore to know you've beaten them? She's also ever so slightly and cautiously romantic. Mind you, she thinks a Demon Elemental is sweet, so take that as you will.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Swift and agile

History (brief blurb, more detail later)
Hum was born to a half Sa'krien mother who was driven mad by her own heritage. Hum's own appearance only served to drive her mother deeper into madness and turn the mare against her daughter. As such Hum was mostly raised by her father and a kindly older mare from a neighboring Song. When she was about a year and a half old Hum decided that she'd had enough and left home early, determined to find her own way without her mother. It hurt her father, but she felt it was best for all of them.

Not long after she decided to make a dramatic gesture in looking for a stallion and attracted the attention of Rend, a Demon Elemental who liked her fiery looks and temperament. Despite her uncertainty about the Mystic mare he had waiting back home she decided to join his Song. Though she is currently the only non-magical member of this Song she feels more at home there than she ever did with her parents.

Song
Song of the Glistening Night

Likes
Being active, Rend, arguing

Dislikes
Cold, trespassers (except in a way she likes them since it means she can attack them), her mother

Aspirations and goals
Prove herself worthy of an Elemental's attention

Fears
Going mad the way her mother did, being weak

Favorite color
Sky blue

Odd fact
Despite standing a scant foot tall, she has managed to tree a human before

Samanayr name
Dawn of the Joyful Earth

Gender
Mare

Species
Samanayr

Age
Young Adult

Physical description
Dawn is mostly a rich brown, but she has many swirling markings in blue, white, and amber red. Her mane and tail continue the color pattern, fading from red to blue to white. Her wings have similar patterns as her body, but her feet are much paler. They are also paws rather than hooves. Her eyes are gold. She is soft and rounded, just a little plump, but not enough to be considered pudgy.

Personality
Dawn is a very sweet and gently young mare who tends to go along with the crowd.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Flight

History
Coming eventually

Song
Song of the Bright Horizon

Likes
Music, dancing, water

Dislikes
Strife, hatred, bullies

Aspirations and goals
Uncertain

Fears
Uncertain

Favorite color
Undecided

Odd fact
When she was a baby Dawn looked more like her mother, but once she grew up she came to resemble her father more strongly

Samanayr name
Dance of the Rainbow Light

Gender
Stallion

Species
Lamanayr

Age
Young Adult

Physical description
Dance's colors mimic those of the rainbow lorikeet; largely blue with a red belly and green wings and legs. He has hints of yellow mixed in as well. He has no tufts on his legs

Personality
Dance's personality also mimics that of the bird. He is loud and clownish. He is more than willing to laugh at himself and treats life like one giant party. It is very hard to get Dance to take much of anything seriously, so it's probably a good thing that his Song lives in a cliffside cave about halfway up said cliff; it's hard to be attacked by much that high in the air.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Flight

History
Coming eventually

Song
Song of the Open Skies

Likes
Fun, games, water, the tropics, fruit, his mares, birds

Dislikes
Spoilsports

Aspirations and goals
Have the most fun in life that he can; after all, you only live once

Fears
Being grounded

Favorite color
Taste the rainbow!

Odd fact
The feathers he wears in his mane are from his first two mares, both of whom are also bird mimics

Samanayr name
Sweep of the Bold Isles

Gender
Mare

Species
Lamanayr

Age
Adult

Physical description
Sweep's colors mimic those of the red kite. She is mostly red with a white head and tail. Her wings are her most striking feature being multicolored in shades of red and brown with barring. She has three hooves on each foot and wears a thin metal band on her right foreleg.

Personality
Sweep takes life very seriously. Territory is to be defended, food must be gathered and stored for the winter, plans must be made. She borders on militant. It is uncertain why then she chose to join a Song with a clown. Also rather bossy.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Flight

History
Coming eventually

Song
Song of the Open Skies

Likes
Order, flying

Dislikes
Disorder, chaos, trespassers

Aspirations and goals
To make Dance settle down and take his duties seriously.

Fears
Dying childless

Favorite color
Undetermined

Odd fact
Though she mimics a predatory bird Sweep is disgusted by the idea of eating meat.

Samanayr name
Cuddle of the Southern Skies

RP Font Color
#D16587

Gender
Mare

Species
Lamanayr

Age
Young Adult

Physical description
Cuddle's colors mimic those of the Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, and she even has a crest like that of the bird. She is a soft rosy pink all over save for her grey hooves and brilliantly pink and yellow crest of feathers. She is ever so slightly plump and rounded with a somewhat motherly look to her.

Personality
As her name would imply, Cuddle is a very affectionate Sam who loves to cuddle up with her Songmates and isn't shy about strangers. Though very motherly and loving, Cuddle can come off the wrong way by trying to go up to someone she has just met and nuzzle them in greeting. Can easily be too affectionate.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Flight

History
Coming eventually

Song
Song of the Open Skies

Likes
Cuddling, friends, babies, sweet foods, flying, singing

Dislikes
Sour things, be it food or personality, cold, negative emotions

Aspirations and goals
Be a mother

Fears
Freezing

Favorite color
Unknown

Odd fact
Cuddle's feather mane only goes partway down her neck, also being a head mane as she is a Lamanayr

Samanayr name
Searing of the Sands Aflame

RP Font Color
#C35817

Gender
Stallion

Species
Desert

Age
Adult, still in the prime of life

Physical description
Searing is a pale, creamy colored stallion with deep golden stripes edged in rusty red running down his body from his neck to the tip of his tufted tail. The same stripes also run down his legs until fading into first gold then darkred at the feet. His hooves are the same deep rusty red. He has a fluffy leonine mane around his neck which is rusty red tipped in golden amber. The tuft on the end of his tail is the same color as his mane. The top of his head and muzzle are golden amber as well, while the underside of his head is cream. His eyes are bright gold. He sports a pair of long, sharp, deep red double horns, which might look intimidating, but are not used for actual fighting. He has a stubby pair of red and gold draconic wings, far too small to bear him in flight. He wears a chunk of turquoise on a silver chain around his neck.

Personality
Searing is a runner by nature. He is completely content running through the night desert, never staying in one place for long. Or at least he was until he found a mare to adore and hold him in place. He still loves to run, but is willing to return to the same place, and to only spend a part of each night out on patrol. While he is not the most socially outgoing of Sams, seldom seeking out the company of others beyond his own mare, he is not socially inept either. He is fairly calm and hard to upset, but has a strong sense of humor underneath. Searing tends to be fairly observant, as failing to notice things can get you killed rather quickly in the desert where he makes his home. Friendly enough if you happen to meet him, but he won't go out of his way to find someone to be around.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Desert survival
Can run full out over the ever changing surfaces of the desert

History
Coming soon

Song
Song of Endless Sands

Likes
Running, the desert, Hiss

Dislikes
The idea of the ocean (it bothers him...how can all that water be there and yet undrinkable?), sandstorms, Sa'krien

Aspirations and goals
Fully win Hiss's trust and prove that he can protect her, despite nearly failing once already

Fears
Truly failing Hiss, drowning, sandstorms

Favorite color
The shades of the desert, browns and golds

Odd fact
Even if his wings were large enough for flight he would still prefer to run.

Samanayr name
Hiss of the Faded Coral

RP Font Color
lightpink

Gender
Mare

Species
Samanayr

Age
Adult

Physical description
Hiss has a rather serpentine build, long and lean with a draconic tail. She is also, like a snake, completely hairless and covered in tiny scales. Her colors mimic those of an albino coral snake; mostly white with thin yellow stripes bordering wider red stripes. Her posture tends to be hunched in on herself though, making her seem smaller than she is. She wears a snake fang on a red cord around her neck.

Personality
Hiss is...painfully shy and incredibly timid. Almost everything scares her and she's borderline paranoid. Very few other than her family have ever heard her speak and now that she has found a stallion that she trusts she will usually use him as a living shield between herself and any stranger she happens to encounter. Very easily spooked, prone to running first, seeing what it was later, if ever.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
None that she's aware of.

History
Born to an aggressive, domineering bully and the lame mare he'd managed to trap Hiss did not have a good childhood. Her mother's spirit was practically broken by the time Hiss was born, and her body was nearly worn out as well from constantly raising foals for her greedy captor. Hiss inherited her father's scaled skin, but nothing else from him, to his angry disappointment. She was abused by her father and older sister in attempts to toughen her up, but it only served to make her even more afraid.

When she finally was allowed to leave Hiss promptly took off, never wanting to see another stallion again. She lived a highly nomadic life in the deep desert, beyond the reach of her father's interest. Most of the time she was on the move for fear that someone had found her, but every now and then she would find a seemingly safe, secure, hidden spot to stay for awhile. But always someone would eventually come through, and Hiss would flee again.

One night though, the one who found the same canyon that she had decided would make a secluded shelter managed to convince her enough of his lack of ill intent that she hesitantly remained.

Will finish once a particular RP gets wrapped up

Song
Song of Endless Sands

Likes
Sweet foods, burrying her face in Searing's mane, her catgryph, feeling safe

Dislikes
Strangers

Aspirations and goals
To finally be able to feel truly safe

Fears
Most everything that isn't on her 'likes' list, but particularly Sa'krien and scaled skin stallions other than her son

Favorite color
Searing colors

Odd fact
She hisses her s's slightly when she speaks and also tends to stutter.



Name
Topaz

Gender
Male

Species
Catgryph

About
Topaz is Hiss's loyal companion, a gift to her from Searing in the early days of their partnership. As Searing's nature was such that he could not constantly remain in the canyon with Hiss, he gave her a little friend to keep her company during the hours that he was gone. At first she was afraid of the little fellow with his sharp beak, but the clumsy kitten soon won her over, and even now that he's grown to be half as big as she is Hiss isn't afraid of her companion. He is a friendly, outgoing little fellow who sometimes gets upset when Hiss doesn't like his gifts of dead lizards.

Samanayr name
Scrap of Windblown Mischief

RP Font Color
darkorange

Gender
Mare

Species
Sa'grisayr

Age
Young Adult, barely

Physical description
Scrap is mostly calico all over save for her yellow front legs and talons. She also has yellow rings round her black eyes. She almost looks more like a gryphon than a Samanayr with that tufted tail, paws and talons plus her lack of foot tufts. She sports a pair of bone earrings which have almost gotten ripped out of her ears more than once as she gets rather overenthusiastic about things quite easily.

Personality
Her name is indicative of her nature. She is frequently found in the center of all manner of mischief, most of which she thought was a good idea at the time. Often enough she still thinks it was a good idea, it's just that others apparently didn't agree. She tends to live her life in a little fantasy world which only vaguely touches on reality. Scrap can take the most commonplace situation and turn it into a wild adventure. She is very noisy and rambunctious with a tendency to narrate her life in dramatic style when board. Don't believe most things she tells you; she loves to make up stories which she half believes herself.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Flight, getting herself into trouble, getting herself back out of trouble, getting others into trouble, making up stories

History
You'll never get the real story from her. But it might appear here one day.
Coming eventually

Song
None, not ready to settle down yet

Likes
Adventures, flying in crazy ways, rough and tumble play

Dislikes
Being bored, Sams who won't play with her, being told to grow up

Aspirations and goals
Find a real adventure where she doesn't have to make up the story as she goes along

Fears
That one day she's going to grow into one of those old fuddy duddies who tell her to stop acting like a child

Favorite color
No comment

Odd fact
Scrap's lineart was in fact based on the gryphon and her colors are a mix of a calico cat and the orange breasted falcon.

Samanayr name
Flare of the Spiky Temper

RP Font Color
darkred

Gender
Stallion

Species
Aquatic

Age
Middle aged older adult, past his prime

Physical description
Flare looks very much like a lionfish and could probably fool a casual observer from a distance. A closer look however will show the different body shape under all those fins and red stripes on white. He wears a shark tooth necklace.

Personality
He didn't get his name at random. In his younger days Flare was quite the hotheaded stallion, quick to anger and quick to lash out with words or fins. As he's aged he's mellowed a bit into a crotchety old Sam with a slightly odd sense of humor. He is slightly unusual in that he never quite felt like getting around to founding a Song or siring children until late in his life.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Being able to hold his breath for long periods of time as he swims or dives

History
Coming eventually

Song
Song of the Warring Affections

Likes
Saltwater, his lagoon, basking in the sun, a good argument that he gets to win

Dislikes
Hot blooded young stallions like he used to be, loosing arguments, fresh water

Aspirations and goals
He's getting older, he doesn't feel like worrying about goals at the moment

Fears
Being trapped in fresh water, sharks

Favorite color
Uncertain

Odd fact
He has a million and one stories as to how he got those sharks teeth. None of them are true save the one he won't tell which is basically that he picked them up off the ocean floor completely unmenaced by anything.

Samanayr name
Puff of the Approaching Autumn

Gender
Mare

Species
Northern

Age
Young Adult

Physical description
Puff is actually rather thin under all that fur; she's half hair. Her fur is a soft brown spotted with orange and red that she likes to think of as falling leaves. Her hooves and the feathers lining her ears are a frosty blue, a reminder of the winter that follows autumn. She wears a bracelet with a pumpkin charm on her left front leg as a constant reminder of her favorite season.

Personality
Puff is a sweet, happy young Sam who loves to dance and sing, particularly in autumn, her favorite season of the year.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Dancing, staying warm

History
Coming one day

Song
Song of All Seasons

Likes
Autumn, dancing, singing, pumpkins, fallen leaves

Dislikes
Mud, being soaked, being too hot

Aspirations and goals
Uncertain

Fears
That one year autumn will never really come

Favorite color
Rusty bright orange like autumn leaves

Odd fact
Her large hooves serve as clumsy snowshoes in winter

Samanayr name
Gyre of the Bleached Sands

RP Font Color
#E9AB17

Gender
Stallion

Species
Desert-Samanayr hybrid

Age
Young Adult

Physical description
From his neck to the tip of his tail Gyre's body is covered in tiny scales, much like those of a snake. He is predominantly white with broad yellow stripes bordered in much narrower maroon stripes. On the tip of his tail is a tuft of fur which combines all three colors from his body. His legs, from around the ankle down, do have the tufts of most Samanayrs and fade to maroon, the same color of his hooves. His neck is covered by a fluffy leonine mane, and his face also has a coating of fur; gold on top and white on bottom with a thin reddish line between. He lacks ears and has a pair of vestigial wings. He wears a necklace much like his father's around his neck. While he is still young and not quite as muscular as he might yet grow, he is lean and tough looking as a result of surviving in the desert for most of his young life.

Personality
Gyre is slightly unsure of his place in the world still and can be hesitant in his actions. But he loves to travel and explore and has no desire to settle down now, or perhaps ever. He does enjoy company however. He finds many things outside of the desert to be odd. He tries not to be afraid, but after two years of living with his nervous mother there are a great many things that he is not quite sure about and will approach more hesitantly than he otherwise might. In his own way he's trying to prove himself, though how or to whom is uncertain.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Desert survival, swift running

History
Coming eventually

Song
Song of the Wandering Spirits

Likes
Running, traveling

Dislikes
Staying in one place too long, cold

Aspirations and goals
To prove to his father that he can make his way outside of the desert.
To see as much of the world as he can possibly manage; the ocean depths and the far north are the only places he doesn't think he'll make it to as he probably can't survive in either place.
Fears
Being trapped, a lot of nagging little fears left over from an overly cautious mother (too numerous to try listing)

Favorite color
Blue

Odd fact
Gyre was given a catgryph as a gift when he was only hours old. The giver? His mother's catgryph.



Name
Moonlight

Gender
Female

Species
Catgryph

About
Moonlight is a slightly jealous young catgryph who has been with Gyre for his entire life. She had a name long before he did however. No one except Topaz, Gyre's mother's catgryph, knows just where she came from. When Gyre was born Topaz took one look at him and left the Song's canyon home unnoticed by the new parents. About the time they noticed him missing he returned carrying a half grown catgryph kitten nearly as large as the foal and made it clear that she now belonged to the young colt. The two grew up together and are very close, though Moonlight is prone to wander off on her own explorations and to hunt. She is very inquisitive and playful, but she considers Gyre to be hers and can get upset if he appears to be neglecting her when she doesn't want to be left alone.

Samanayr name
Pining of the Poison Arrow

Gender
Mare

Species
Samanayr

Age
Young Adult

Physical description
Pining's body is almost entirely grey with just a few dark teal blotches on her head and legs. Most of her color comes from the vivid teal and green spines that grow from her head, neck, back, and tail. She tends to carry herself in a slightly defeated sort of way.

Personality
Pining is not the most cheery mare around. She has a great deal of trouble speaking, or even making the sounds of the original Samanayr language. That, combined with her unusually spiky appearance has made her less than confident in herself, and she tends to slink around at the edges of things, too afraid to go join in.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
None; has the lack of ability to talk readily

History
Coming eventually

Song
Song of the Shielded Heart

Likes
Pine trees, quiet, the sound of a mountain stream babbling nearby

Dislikes
Being forced to speak

Aspirations and goals
To be able to talk normally

Fears
Wide open spaces

Favorite color
Pine colors

Odd fact
Pining never said a single word to her parents until the day she got her name. Even then it wasn't understandable through her stutters.

Samanayr name
Expectation of the Unopened Egg

Gender
Mare

Species
Samanayr

Age
Young Adult

Physical description
From the front Expectation's colors almost resemble those of a badger with her white markings on a grey base. The long floppy ears with the green feathers on the end and the blue mane do take away from the badger like appearance though. As do the two little pairs of feathery wings. Her back half looks nothing like a badger however, being blue with paler stripes running along the outside of her hip. She wears a cluster of holly in her blue tail. Expectation is always seen carrying around a delicate looking red and gold egg.

Personality
She loves puzzles and mysteries and trying to solve them. However, she doesn't really enjoy actually solving them, just the fun of puzzling through them and wondering what the answer might be. Because of this she will violently stop anyone from actually attempting to open her egg, preferring to live in endless curiosity about what it might contain. She is slightly obsessed with the riddle of her egg, just opposed to actually finding the answer because then she wouldn't be able to wonder anymore.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
None

History
Maybe one day we'll know...

Song
Song of the Prickly Warmth

Likes
Puzzles, riddles, the feeling you get when immersed in seeking the solution to a tricky puzzle

Dislikes
Others butting in on her puzzle solving, being told the answers, others trying to touch or open her egg

Aspirations and goals
To discover all the mysteries of the world (not unravel or solve them, just find them)

Fears
Finding herself with no puzzle to enjoy, loosing her egg

Favorite color
Red and gold

Odd fact
Expectation uses her four vestigial wings to support and carry around her egg when traveling.

Samanayr name
Keeper of the Frozen Rings

RP Font Color
#7F5217

Gender
Stallion

Species
Northern

Age
Adult

Physical description
Keeper is a rather large, very solidly built Sam whose thick fluffy coat makes him look even larger. His thick coat is mostly white with frosty blue spots all over. His antlers and hooves are a woody brown. He usually has a grumpy expression and almost always carries five golden rings.

Personality
He is not very well socialized and has a rather sour, non-trusting personality. Tends to talk to himself more than he talks to others, and even a comment aimed at another may well be muttered under his breath as though he's still talking to himself.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
None really

History
When he was a much younger and more trusting Sam a Sharian approached Keeper, who then had a different name which is now forgotten, and asked him to do an important task. Keeper was asked to guard five magical rings which needed to be kept far away from...some unnamed something. He was taken to a remote spring deep in a northern forest and told to stay there and guard the rings until the Sharian returned. Years past and the rings proved nothing but trouble, rolling away the instant he took his eyes off of them, growing even more icily cold than the seemed possible in less time than it should take. Keeper was miserable, but remained at his duty.

Years later the Sharian did return, forced to by a pair of of older mages who were absolutely furious with him and the nasty trick he had played on the trusting Samanayr whom he had all but forgotten about. At their insistence he removed the prankish spells he had placed on both Keeper and the rings, allowing Keeper to go free. But he had already destroyed the stallion's trust and temperament. After that Keeper chose to keep the rings as a reminder of why he should never trust again.

Song
None

Likes
Very little

Dislikes
Rings, gold, cold, company, magic, mages, tricksters, chatter, trusting

Aspirations and goals
Never forget

Fears
Being tricked again, being betrayed, opening up to others

Favorite color
That would require him to like something

Odd fact
Despite hating the rings and what the represent Keeper will fight viciously to keep them.

Samanayr name
Triumph of the Inkstained Scroll

RP Font Color
#ECD672

Gender
Mare

Species
Lamanayr

Age
Young Adult

Physical description
Triumph looks a great deal like a sheet of old parchment on which someone had started to write and then spilled a great deal of ink. Her clawed paws are slightly clumsy with the quill pen she usually carries, but work well enough to write with.

Personality
Triumph is a very determined, serious young mare. Right now she is most determined to improve her reading and writing skills to make her Sharian teachers proud of her. She is endlessly fascinated by the written word and strives perpetually to impress those whom she feels have mastered it. Despite being well read for a Sam...she's a bit naive on the reality of the world. She never thought she'd be content with any stallion, but then she met Seeker. While his goals and aspirations may lie down a different path than her own, he is equally studious and holds a fascination for her.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Reading, writing, has almost lost the Samanayr accent

History
Maybe one day she'll share it.

Song
Song of the Inquiring Minds

Likes
Books, reading, writing, learning, Sharian

Dislikes
Getting her paws all muddy, loosing her quill, being teased

Aspirations and goals
To completely loose the Samanayr accent, constantly improve her reading and writing skills, favorably impress the Sharian so that they will continue to teach her.

Fears
Loosing her favorite rainbow pen, disappointing her teachers

Favorite color
That nice crispy aged parchment color

Odd fact
Triumph is a tribute Sam for having managed to complete 50k words on my first NaNoWriMo attempt and much of her personality is based around that fact.



Name
Socrates

Gender
Male

Species
Wild Dragonet

About
Socrates is a dragonet who demands much attention and entertainment. He loves games, even though he's not the brightest little fellow around. He's still surprisingly good at them, though he does cheat if he can get away with it. When he's board he will often gather the game pieces he can find, fly up into a tree, and start chucking them at Triumph's head until she gives in and plays with him for a while.

Samanayr name
Companion of Winter Warmth

RP Font Color
Undetermined

Gender
Stallion

Species
Northern

Age
Adult

Physical description
Companion is a big cuddly puffball of cotton candy colored fluff with lilac wings and paws. His upright ears give him a slightly bat-like face. He's quite solidly built under all that fluff as well.

Personality
He is a cheerful fellow who can't always restrain his exuberance. Living in the north where the seasons do not change as visibly or as long as they do in warmer climates he has a slight fascination with them and founded a Song with a mare representing each of the other three seasons of the year.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Plowing paths through the snow

History
One day...

Song
Song of All Seasons

Likes
Seasonal change, his lovely mares, story telling, dance, play

Dislikes
Hunters, cold water

Aspirations and goals
See a full out southern summer one day

Fears
That one year winter will never end

Favorite color
It varies with the season. Winter is warm gold, spring is soft amber, summer is cool blue, autumn is rosy pink. Yes, he likes colors that represent the polar opposite season...go figure.

Odd fact
Despite having wings he seldom flies as he's afraid he'll get lost or carried away by a snowstorm.

Samanayr name
Jewel of the Ocean Mist

RP Font Color
#3B9C9C

Gender
Mare

Species
Aquatic

Age
Young Adult

Physical description
Jewel is a slim, sleek little mare with oceanic colors tinged with brighter fiery accents. She shows little hint of having been born to a non-aquatic Song other than that her tail is partly equine. With her long red horn and her little fangs she looks a bit intimidating, but she isn't really. Her golden eyes are usually filled with joy or sometimes mischief.

Personality
She is a very cheerful, perky, talkative young mare. She can almost always find something to amuse herself in a situation and does not appear to take much of anything seriously. However she has a strong dislike of bullies and is quite capable of changing from random babble to chewing you out for being too nasty.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Can hold her breath for a very long time, swim

History
I'll get to this one day...

Song
Song of the Warring Affections

Likes
Swimming, splashing, chatting, playing, company, her parents, teasing Flare

Dislikes
Bullies, being bored, lightning

Aspirations and goals
Get Flare to lighten up and learn to enjoy life again

Fears
Lightning, drowning (more of seeing others drown than of drowning herself)

Favorite color
Purple

Odd fact
She is the second baby born to her parents' Song to be an unexpected species.

Samanayr name
Tingle of the Sweet Mint

RP Font Color
None yet

Gender
Mare

Species
Northern

Age
Adult

Physical description
Tingle looks like a fluffy hot chocolate colored fluffball on candycane stilts.

Personality
She is a very reserve, self contained mare. She is almost constantly in a debate with herself over where to live as she loves the northern lands she was born to but would also like to live somewhere where she won't feel like her legs are about to fall off from cold most of the year.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
None really

History
One day...

Song
Song of the Sweet Cinnamon

Likes
Sunrise, sunset, star watching, the look of the sun or moonlight on fresh fallen snow

Dislikes
The way her legs turn blue and purple from cold if she isn't careful, being teased about her tuftlessness

Aspirations and goals
Settle on a good place to live

Fears
Being eaten

Favorite color
Silver

Odd fact
Trust no one

Samanayr name
Mystic of the Blazing Oasis

RP Font Color
#008080

Gender
Mare

Species
Aquatic Desert Mystic

Age
Adult

Physical description
She is long and lean with a tough, wiry build. Her colors are those of the sunset, vivid reds and golds, spotted with patches of cooler ocean greens and blues. Her large fin ears resemble those of a donkey almost, but it's safer for you not to mention that to you as she is not amused by the comparison. Those horn nubs may be small, but they still hurt when rammed into your kneecap.

Personality
She's a tough girl; she has to be to survive on the outskirts of the desert despite being waterbound. She doesn't tolerate nonsense very readily and tends to be quite straight-laced. She often comes off as gruff, callous, or unfeeliing with her sarcastic sense of humor and lack of social skills, but she still tries to help those who have lost their way and stumbled upon her pool.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Holding her breath for extended periods, heating the water around her, be it to a boil or just to a nice comfortable hotspring temperature, creating barriers of impassible hot water, creating jets of super hot water to strike at attackers with, drawing the heat out of surrounding waters so as to lower the temperature so others can have a cold drink. She can also briefly create a small fire on land but she tries not to do that so as not to have her small fire accidentally take off and turn into a brushfire in the dry desert environment.

History
Her mother was a desert mare with a strong wanderlust that took her far from the sands of her birth. While exploring a remote mountain lake she encountered an aquatic mystic stallion, with whom she had a brief fling before returning home to the desert. Much to her surprise, she dropped a filly soon after. There was no question of who the father was as the filly possessed both an assortment of fins and a pair of Mystic Strands. The mare had no idea how to raise and aquatic baby, but did her best for her filly. Nonetheless she was relieved when her daughter was old enough to leave on her own. Since then Mystic has lived mostly alone, working out her fire magic.

Song
None

Likes
Her fish (sort of), improving her magic, watching the sunset, deep water

Dislikes
Chatterboxes, evaporation, shallow water

Aspirations and goals
Improve her magic abilities, find a large, stable oasis to move into and stay in

Fears
Having the water she's living in dry up completely

Favorite color
White

Odd fact
She point blank refuses to leave the desert environs, despite how much harder it is to survive there.



Name
The Fish, That Fish, Fish, White Fish, Ghost Fish
(a.k.a. he doesn't really have one, just whatever she feels like calling him at the moment)

Gender
Male

Species
Beta Fish

About
Fish is the only creature that Mystic has spent any significant amount of time around other than her mother. That being said, she has absolutely no idea where he came from or how he wound up in her oasis. He just appeared one day. Since then however she has made sure that whenever she follows the temporary paths that the rainy season creates to a new oasis he comes with her. It's nice being able to pretend you aren't going just a little crazy by talking to yourself.

Samanayr name
Caution of the Muted Vivacity

RP Font Color
None yet

Gender
Mare

Species
Samanayr

Age
Young adult

Physical description
Caution is very lean and leggy and looks like she'd break like a twig. While she is a tad delicate, she's not as delicate as that. She has a very pale base but brightly colored spots on her rump, vivid red mane and tail, and brightly colored feathers on her ankles and shoulders. In addition to an equine tail she also sports a bright feathered tail.

Personality
She suffers from an overactive imagination, which means that she is both endlessly curious and also very skittish and easily spooked. She's just as prone to convince herself of terrible frightening stories as to make up pleasant daydreams, which can make things around her...interesting.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Leaping very high

History
Eventually...

Song
Song of the Paranoid Imagination

Likes
Sweet berries, Patter's wings, pleasant daydreams, shiny things

Dislikes
Monsters in the grass (imaginary or otherwise), being snuck up on

Aspirations and goals
Experience flight one day, some how

Fears
Mostly in her imagination

Favorite color
Beige

Odd fact
Having two tails, at least like her pair, actually makes it harder, not easier, to swish flies away.

Samanayr name
Chirp of the Harmonic Echo

RP Font Color
#9B5126

Gender
Mare

Species
Samanayr

Age
Young Adult

Physical description
Chirp looks like a bat, a Townsend's Big-Eared Bat to be precise. This means she's a big puffball of fur with giant ears and a pair of leathery wings that connect all four legs and her tail. She has hooked talons that enable her to grip despite the connecting wing membrane.

Personality
Chirp is a sweet, rather silly, good natured mare who loves to explore. She has the curiosity of a cat and tends to rely overly much on her ability to fly to allow her to escape any sort of situation that it gets her into. While she hates to see others sad, she sometimes has rather...odd ways of trying to cheer them up. She may come across as simple, and in many ways she is, but don't let that make you think that she's stupid.

Abilities (magical and otherwise)
Flight, echolocation, highly sensitive hearing

History
Eventually...

Song
Song of the Variegated Mimics

Likes
Sweet things, talking, friends, flying, exploring

Dislikes
Being stuck in one place too long, thunder, being trapped on the ground

Aspirations and goals
To see the whooooole world!

Fears
Loosing her ability to fly and travel

Favorite color
Too many choices...

Odd fact
While she normally speaks in a rather rapid fire sing-song voice, when she gets worked up or frightened her voice goes up several octaves until it starts to reach ear piercing shrillness. She's not very comfortable to be around when she's shrieking because her range goes so high.