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The History of Chevalin

Once, this land held the footprints of man. In a time long before now, he made his mark on the earth - scarring it with his skyscrapers and wounding it with war. Man was said to know many things, like  how the earth revolved around the sun, or how to replace a  dying heart. What man didn’t know, or understand was that all things, good and bad must come to an end. 

The sudden apocalypse that hit earth, sent our world flying into a new era and through all the destruction, disease, and land broken and covered by new oceans - they say the world split open and in that moment two things happened. Magic returned to the world, and the age of Equus and Chevalin began. Through the apocalypse… the Islands of Chevalin formed, connected by land bridges that would rise and fall with the waning and waxing of the moon and the seasons. While remnants of man were left on the territories of the water-surrounded land - it was the horses of them that truly owned it now. Magic and time had brought them intelligence, but intelligence had brought greed for land, and greed for power. It was not long till the equids seemed to ravage their new land with only war and terror. No horse seemed safe. As everything seemed to be lost however, something miraculous happened.

    The fabled creature known as the unicorn revealed his face to his mortal cousins. While many unicorns came to the land of chevalin - the first to rise from the surrounding Oceans was Sir Valraldic - a prince in the land of magic, who would later become known as The Great Compromiser. He, like many of the unicorns, were outraged by what the equines had made of their new found freedom and gifts. He decided that only he could take it upon himself to rally together these renegade beasts and turn them into the society that he dreamed for them.

He pulled together the horses, and set laws for them, told them that as a unicorn he was their leader - a god of sorts. He explained he was there to rescue them, to make them better, to provide them with a better life. Such ideals proved to work well for a time, until some horses became restless. Despite his efforts, the Great Compromiser could not stop all horses from committing crime. Eventually - he had no choice, The Great Compromiser had to banish all he considered guilty of any sin to the southernmost isle. These criminals he sent down to the Southern Isle would eventually come together, and create our second faction: the Exile Herd.

Time passed, and the territories of The Great Compromiser remained prosperous, his nearly immortal form had brought a beauty to the once wrecked world. Horses and Unicorns began to share families together, and the magic of the beast spread farther into the bloodlines of their mortal brothers and sisters. However, the peace was yet again to be broken, when yet another group of horses set to break apart the kingdom Valraldic had created. These horses declared they would rather live free, and not under the rule of a leader. Growing tired of the unappreciative horses - Sir Valraldic, the Great Compromiser banished this group of stallions and their mates - who would later become known as the third faction: the Bachelor Stallions of the East.

Some say it was because he was tired of the sick world that had grown around him, others say it was simply “ his time” but soon after the third faction formed, the Great Compromiser, and all of his Unicorn followers disappeared once again from the mortal world. Despite the sudden disappearance over 200 years ago, the Unicorn’s legacy still lies with the first faction to be made: The Olde Herd. Some still hope that one day the legendary horses will return, but for now, we the horses of chevalin hold on to the magic they left us: the ability to hold magical gifts within us, and the ability to endure.