Unicorns

About Unicorns

About Unicorns
The Unicorns’ Horns
Unicorns and Nature
Language
History
The Seers

About Unicorns:
Unicorns are emotionless, pure beings incapable of selfish actions. They are allies with the cherubians and allow their winged friends to ride on their backs through mornacht infested territory. (Riding is faster than walking, running, or low-hovering, and it keeps the cherubians out of the air where they are more likely to get shot.) Unicorns are ruled by a monarchy separate from the cherubian government, but the cherubians still recognize the royalty of the unicorn king by bowing to him and by refusing to sit next to him. (Unicorn etiquette maintains that only the king of Elysia shall ever sit next to the king of the unicorns.) Likewise, unicorns will bow to their king and the king of Elysia, but they refuse to bow to Elysia’s Prime Minister.

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The Unicorns’ Horns:
For centuries when unicorns used to roam Earth, humans wondered what the horn was and what it did, but none ever thought to ask the unicorns themselves. Instead, they trapped and killed them all (except for the few who still live deep in the hearts of the great northern forests where few humans wander) and kept their horns thinking they might possess magical powers. The fools didn't know that though the horns did possess power, it was not power a human could use. All they ended up with was a trinket powerful enough to stir a pot of stew or give a horse a good jab to make it run faster.

The unicorn’s spiraled horn is composed of special matter that absorbs energy from the sun and stores it for times of need. When a unicorn needs extra speed, its horn will turn red as it accesses the stored energy, helping the unicorn double and sometimes even triple his fastest speed. When placed on another creature’s forehead, the horn can absorb its emotions—a service unicorns often offer cherubians who are dealing with excessive sadness or anger. When a unicorn’s horn glows red, it will do more than absorb emotions; it will absorb a creature’s life. Their horns, when placed on the temple of other creatures, can actually read the creature's thoughts and memories.

Their horns also give the unicorns self-healing powers so great that only a few things can kill them: crushing (as in under a boulder or in the jaws of a saber), drowning, and excessive burning. It is also possible to kill a unicorn by cutting off its horn, robbing it of its healing power, and then mortally wounding it. A unicorn’s healing power flows through its body even into its sweat and spit. Cherubians who know this will often slather a unicorn’s spit on their wounds or lay an ill cherubian on its back.

The unicorn’s ability to heal itself gives it few mortal enemies. Morvenian wolves and poisonwood arrows are only an annoyance. Only two creatures in Heaven’s Realm pose a mortal threat to the unicorns: sabers, who can crush them in their jaws and who are too big for unicorn to absorb their lives quickly, and dragons, who can crush the unicorns in their jaws, pick them up and drop them, or burn them to death. The dragons, however, are kind at heart, and even though the two species’ opposing personalities often cause inter-species friction, the dragons would never intentionally harm the unicorns.

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Unicorns and Nature:
Unicorns have an indescribable bond with nature that cherubians are unable to figure out. They can read the “thoughts of trees” (if that were possible) just with a touch of their horn. Some cherubians swear that the trees and even the air surrounding a dead unicorn feel different.

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Language:
Unicorns can speak in “cherubian tongue” as they call it, but they also have their own language, which sounds like a strange combination of neighs and whinnies. Only a few cherubians have ever taken the time to learn it.

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History:
After the Great Unicorn Massacre on Earth, a young colt named Azernoth led the surviving unicorns to Heaven’s Realm. Azernoth also convinced the unicorns to join forces with Ezzer in the war against the mornachts. Ezzer rewarded Azernoth by placing a gold medal called the Medallion of Wisdom around his neck. Azernoth has worn the medallion ever since, and the medallion will be passed on to Crown Prince Boronan, who will become king in the unlikely event of Azernoth’s death.

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The Seers:
A special breed of unicorn, the seers of the line of Capral now believed to be extinct, could foretell the future. Cherubians still are not sure what powers allowed the seers to prophesy. According to legend, the unicorn seers had more power than other unicorns, but few cherubians know what. Many have stopped wondering since the mornachts assassinated Capral’s line ages ago. Cherubians who still believe the Runes believe that the seeing line of Capral will reemerge, citing a little known prophecy, which indicates that the coming of a future cherubian king will “be preceded by the reemergence of a line thought lost.”

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Other Creatures in Heaven's Realm
Unicorns   Sprites   Hawks
Gnomes   Dragons   Fawns   Nymphs
Mornachts   Wolves   Sabers   Vultures

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