Camellia, Lead Mare

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Name Camellia Moonflower
Age 30
Gender Female
Species Centaur
Ethnicity N/A
Height 17.2 hands, about 9ish feet head-to-hoof
Occupation Herd spiritual leader
Residence

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Credit: Skye-Fate on Deviantart

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Physical Description
Camellia has the lower half of a graceful, camello paint mare, with white streaks through her caramel hair and tail to match her coat. Her upper half is that of a wiry but still somehow graceful woman. Her features are sharp and strong, though often hold a gentleness that makes her seem more approachable than first impressions might indicate her to be.

She has one "wall eye", meaning that the right is a clear, pale blue, while the left is deep brown--a marking common enough in paint horses, and evidently applicable to centaur-ish counterparts.

Personality

She believes in peace above all things, and this reflects strongly in almost every aspect of her personality. She is non-combative, though a ready mediator in disputes, and she excels as a spiritual leader for her Herd with a strong but not overbearing kind of charisma. 

Magic/Abilities
Camellia has a very faint gift of Sight which often manifests in semi-prophetic dreams. Since her meeting with Lakali, the Keeper of the Moonlit Glade, these visions have become steadily more reliable.

Though she is staunchly pacifist, if she must defend herself Camellia is adept with wielding a pair of duel swords, and she's not a back shot with a recurve bow. 

Relationships
Bree, her younger sister, who she hasn't seen since she was a child and their first herd fell apart.

Her mate, Staluk

The rest of the Moonflower Herd

History
Camellia once belonged to a massive Herd that roamed the grasslands of Adela, but when she was fifteen they were attacked and most of them killed. The straggling remnants of her Herd traveled north, into Serendipity, and became the Moonflower Herd.

As the daughter of the Herd's last Lead Mare, Camellia was the heir to lead the survivors. She has changed the Herd's ideals radically, steering them into a life of hard-line pacifism. It was not easy, and she often deals with argument from a discontented people who still thirst for vengeance, but so far no one has directly challenged her and her mate's leadership.

Before her first Herd fell, Camellia lived a relatively "normal" life. Her mother was Herd Mare before her, and from a very young age she was groomed to take over her mother's place when she came of age. Her father was killed in a raid when she was about eleven, and her mother took a new mate a year later, eventually producing Camellia's younger half-sister Brianna.

The raid that destroyed their Herd happened when little Bree was barely three years old, and both she and Camellia's mother and stepfather were captured by slavers in the chaos. Camellia has not seen any of them since.

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