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 Now, I'm just going to post the entirety of the opening fiction for you. See if you can spot what made me actually feel physical pain.
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-> Who Can Tame the Wind?\\  \\  "His leg is shattered beyond repair," Marcannon told the attending veterinarian. "I brought him home, but you need to put him down. He’s no good to himself or to me."\\  \\  Dr. Steed looked down at the injured horse, its flanks heaving in pain, then at the stable owner. "I think I can save him," she said, her voice steady though her eyes misted over.\\  \\  Marcannon shook his head. "It would cost more than he’s worth. Now do what I'm paying you for."\\  \\  Epona Steed rose to her full height, facing a man whose judgment she had occasion to question more than once. "No," she said. Before the stable owner’s eyes, the slim animal doctor grew taller and bulkier, sprouting a second pair of legs along a lengthening backbone.\\  \\  Marcannon's eyes widened in fear. A creature out of myth stood before him. "My friends are coming to take him off your hands," she said, using her physical bulk to back the cowering man into a corner of the stall. She reared up on her hind legs and tapped the man with a hoof, sending him down to the ground in a groaning heap. "I’ll bill you for the cost of his death," she said. "Now he belongs to me."
+Who Can Tame the Wind?\\  \\  "His leg is shattered beyond repair," Marcannon told the attending veterinarian. "I brought him home, but you need to put him down. He’s no good to himself or to me."\\  \\  Dr. Steed looked down at the injured horse, its flanks heaving in pain, then at the stable owner. "I think I can save him," she said, her voice steady though her eyes misted over.\\  \\  Marcannon shook his head. "It would cost more than he’s worth. Now do what I'm paying you for."\\  \\  Epona Steed rose to her full height, facing a man whose judgment she had occasion to question more than once. "No," she said. Before the stable owner’s eyes, the slim animal doctor grew taller and bulkier, sprouting a second pair of legs along a lengthening backbone.\\  \\  Marcannon's eyes widened in fear. A creature out of myth stood before him. "My friends are coming to take him off your hands," she said, using her physical bulk to back the cowering man into a corner of the stall. She reared up on her hind legs and tapped the man with a hoof, sending him down to the ground in a groaning heap. "I’ll bill you for the cost of his death," she said. "Now he belongs to me."
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 Dr. Steed. Dr. Epona Steed.
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 The rest of the information is basically reiterations of stuff we already know, aside from Alpha Horses who protect the family circle and Alpha Horse Women who make most of the decisions.
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-> Stereotypes\\  Man: For better or worse, our fates are intertwined. Yet until they learn better respect than what they have shown, we rush toward an abyss.\\  Mages: Capable of greatness, yet often blinded by their own splendor.\\  Vampires: Their death-stink sticks like shit to ragged hooves.\\  Werewolves: Wolves are wolves. We may share a fated dance, but they don’t always have to lead it.
+Stereotypes\\  Man: For better or worse, our fates are intertwined. Yet until they learn better respect than what they have shown, we rush toward an abyss.\\  Mages: Capable of greatness, yet often blinded by their own splendor.\\  Vampires: Their death-stink sticks like shit to ragged hooves.\\  Werewolves: Wolves are wolves. We may share a fated dance, but they don’t always have to lead it.
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 **Deerhoof Antlerdude** gets his writeup at last. Technically the real name for the breed are the **Alces**, Elken-Volk, or Horned Harbingers. Here's their backstory!
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-> Long ago, it’s been said, the Horned God lay with the Great Earth Mother. Where his seed scattered, beasts sprang up with vast antlers like the Lord himself. Although their antlers could not span the sky as his did, they nevertheless challenged the trees to grow to ever-more luxuriant size. The hooves of these mighty beasts shook the grown, and where they struck, springs flowed and flowers grew. Such was the creative power of the Elken-volk that Man himself was both humbled and aroused. To capture some of that virility for himself, the bravest hunter stalked the largest elk. They fought until sunrise, shattering the forest as they fought, and when the Great Mother saw what had been done, she turned them both into a single beast and charged him to watch over Nature’s restoration.
+Long ago, it’s been said, the Horned God lay with the Great Earth Mother. Where his seed scattered, beasts sprang up with vast antlers like the Lord himself. Although their antlers could not span the sky as his did, they nevertheless challenged the trees to grow to ever-more luxuriant size. The hooves of these mighty beasts shook the grown, and where they struck, springs flowed and flowers grew. Such was the creative power of the Elken-volk that Man himself was both humbled and aroused. To capture some of that virility for himself, the bravest hunter stalked the largest elk. They fought until sunrise, shattering the forest as they fought, and when the Great Mother saw what had been done, she turned them both into a single beast and charged him to watch over Nature’s restoration.
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 Yep, think we hit the creepy quota there. While real life mythology is full of stuff like this - Izanagi wanking the Japanese islands into existence, Enki jizzing the Tigris and Euphrates, etc. etc. - it's still very, very uncomfortable to imagine Phil Brucato - who put his nickname "Satyrblade" in the credits for fuck's sake - editing this. Also, there's another reason, but we'll get to that at the end.
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 And now for the part I know a few of you have been dreading as much as I have. Deerhoof Antlerdude's Shameful Secret, as you can see from above, is that he does not have a penis. At least, in the published book he doesn't. The artist saw fit to fix that on her Deviantart account.
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-> ~xxsqueekbatxx Dec 6, 2008\\  Woohoo! awesome work. well shaded and well hung lol\\  \\  ~ShamanSoulStudios Dec 11, 2008\\  =) Thanks so much! The original to this didn't have the penis as it was for a book interior. After I read a comment that said, It looks like he has a tribble on his crotch, I knew I HAD to give him his manhood back. So far, everyone seems pleased with the results.
+~xxsqueekbatxx Dec 6, 2008\\  Woohoo! awesome work. well shaded and well hung lol\\  \\  ~ShamanSoulStudios Dec 11, 2008\\  =) Thanks so much! The original to this didn't have the penis as it was for a book interior. After I read a comment that said, It looks like he has a tribble on his crotch, I knew I HAD to give him his manhood back. So far, everyone seems pleased with the results.
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 {{https://files.catbox.moe/zt588c.gif}} [[http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs39/i/2008/341/a/d/Horned_God_by_ShamanSoulStudios.jpg|Behold, his dong the size of a coke can.]] {{https://files.catbox.moe/zt588c.gif}}