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[thunder]

Hello, I am thunder, I am new new here and while I have done Warrior Cats RPs and Wolf RPs, I am new to horses. I am a little bit confused, so if anyone is open to answers, tell me please. What is a mare and why can stallions claim them? I general, whats kinda going on? What are terras? I have a lot of questions but I hope you will except me to Galloping Free 2 and I am happy to be with you!

[xx.shuffle]

First off, hello! Welcome to the site! We're happy to be your first horse site!

Let's start with the basics. A mare is a female horse over the age of two years. A stallion is a male horse over two years. The young are called foals. A filly is a young female, and a colt is a young mare.

The stallions claim the mares in order to get their own lands (terra, territory), whatever you want to call them}, to protect them, and to keep their bloodlines going. Much like a wolf's pack, horses form herds. Generally, in the wild, stallions will fight other herd stallions for their mares to increase the size of their herd. If the challenging stallion (let's call him S1) is after a younger mare that the other stallion (S2) is the father of, he will sometimes look the other way. But if S1 decides he wants more of S2's girls, they will fight, and winner gets the mares.

Basically, the same thing is going on here. Except, when a mare is first claimed (usually in the Mare Claiming Mountain) there is usually no fighting. Unless the players of the stallions (also known as stags, brutes, studs) have decided they want a fight to happen. Later on, however, stallions (now S1) may issue a challenge for any mare they want that another stallion (now S2) has, or even his lands. If S1 whens, he gets the mare(s) or the lands. Whatever the challenge was originally made for, and nothing more.

Other than that, we're just about doing whatever. As long as you're having fun! I'll be happy to answer any questions you have. And again, welcome to the site! We're so happy to have you!

[saetta]

And I like to welcome you also Thunder.

Just to add something else in real life when a challenger stallion wins he'll then drive the newly won mares hard if they are pregnant so that they lose the loser stallions foals by miscarrying, and it is not uncommon for the winner to also kill any foals that are under two years also in the captured herd of mares.


But in most Horse RP's at least the ones that I have been on we don't usually do this as it is really killing off a person's characters. But the winner can kind of either ignore the foal or hate them with a passion because of who their sire/father was.

And again welcome and hope you like your stay here

[xx.shuffle]

I've actually heard its as common for them to accept the foals as it is for them to kill them, based on extended studies.