story sketch: faerie wedding [update: 09-17-2011]

[meeks]

This is a scene from Wonder City Stories in which the Equestrian, Maelstrom, Nereid, and Wire (not seen) are being enthusiastically greeted as they arrive at the wedding feast of a swan princess and her chosen prince.



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Comments

Re: Aww...

[heavenscalyx]

Yes, I think Maelstrom is more of a Morgan, with a straight face and a strongly-arched neck.

Re: Aww...

[meeks]

Ooh, that's good to know!

Re: Aww...

[ysabetwordsmith]

What a lovely website! Thank you for sharing. I love the photos on the front page: that's the first time I've seen a horse in this world with that coloring, dark body and flame-bright mane and tail. And that's after extensive looking at unusually colored or patterned horse references.

Re: Aww...

[heavenscalyx]

It is striking, isn't it? I love horse color variants; you can get some that are amazingly wacky, that you would swear are total fantasy. You've seen the Akhal-Tekes, right, with the metallic bloom in the light coats?

Re: Aww...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I had not seen them before. My word, they really do look made of metal! My fantasy world has some horses with a peacock sheen, and some of these -- especially that blueblack -- remind me of that.

One thing I put into Torn World was a paint pattern that's very rare here, sometimes called giraffe patterning; I called it square-paint for TW.