The World of Fantasy, Part 2
by Melissa Addison

KOTS
By Anne-Li Mell

Kots were first bred in Tycoon when the island first was colonized by the elfs of Portlla and they are said to descend from the stallion Vandrel that queen Tinai of the Islands brought with her. But signs have been found that indicate that klotslike horses have lived with the elfs already when the elfs lived on Eternit.

KOT - by Anna-Karin Larsson of Sweden

Kots look like an ordinary horse but have very beautiful, shining colors. They have a special gait close to the Tennessee Walking Horse's rack, but faster. They live long, about 35 terranyears, are very intelligent and with good staying powers. In body they look a little bit like a cross between an Arabian and a Spanish race, perhaps Andalusian and Lusitano, with the Spanish body and an Arabian neck or head. They are about 17-18 hands high - about 150-160 cm.

Kots can have all whole colors (no Appaloosas, pintos, or stripes) but their colors are a bit different than the colors of the terran horses. Grey horses can be Silverwhite - white with some silvercolored hair, from silver on the lower parts of the legs to almost wholly silvercolored, or Goldenwhite - with some goldencolored hair instead. But the golden hair is never in dots but are evenly spread. Goldenwhite kots normally have goldish or reddish manes and tails, but can have white as well. Nightwhite kots are completely white - no golden nor silver hair, but they have black manes and tails, and sometimes black lower legs as well. Brown kots can have any brown color at all with different amounts of golden hair, and usually with black manes and tails. Chestnut kots can also have any brown color at all with different amounts of golden hair, but their manes and tails can differ from almost white, cream-colored to a nearly black-brown color. Normally the mane and tail of the horse are lighter than the color of the horse's body, only seldom darker. All chestnuts have more or less of the golden hairs. There are two sorts of Black kots - the Goldflushblack - those are black with golden hairs and then there are the Nightblack - that are goldflushblacks with white manes and tails. The black - and especially the Nightblacks - are incredibly rare and precious and sometimes get what are called Golden Marks - like sock and such that are goldencolored instead of white. These horses are said to belong to the gods of Portlla and are never exported. Other horses than the black may have white marks, but seldom very large ones. Sometimes they have golden or silvercolored hair in the marks, depending on their color. Apart from the Nightblack and the blacks with the Golden Marks, over 500 kots are exported from Portlla to the rest of the world, where they are highly appreciated for their incredible beauty, speed, and intelligence.

1/2 KLINGON HORNED HORZ, 1/2 VULCAN TUSK HORZ

VULCAN TUSK HORZ

Genetically engineered by Vulcan scientists using Terran horses and Vulcan fire lizards. They resemble little of the lizard genetics...

• Stand from 15-18 Terran hands
• They have scaled faces (a lizard trait) that help control body temperature. In extreme cold the scales absorb whatever heat can be extracted from the cold and send it through the horz's beauty. It works as "air conditioning" in the summer. These horz never have a shedding problem and the scales eliminate the need to grow or shed hair.
• They have two huge tusk that shed like deer antlers yearly and contain rings showing the horz's age. The tusks also contain a VERY lethal poison. Tusks grow with age and can reach the ground on a very old horz. DO NOT eat anything a Tusker has killed - the poison will kill you as well.
• Tuskers have cloven hooves like a deer with small claws.
• They are omnivorous - they eat mainly grasses but have been known to kill small rodents and reptiles.

  1/2 VULCAN TUSK HORZ by Anna-Karin Larsson of Sweden

• They have "green" Vulcan blood.
• They come in all known terran horz colors are well as green, gold, blue, silver, bronze, and iridescent (which is purple, black, and blue with silver markings.)
• They are telepathic and make great mounts.
• Crosses of Tuskers to other breeds are acceptable. The tusker influence is prominent though - most 1/2 Tuskers have small tusks and limited scales, are venemous and some crosses are telepathic. Cloven hooves do not seem to pass into the crosses though unless the other parent also has cloven hooves.
• Tuskers can live to be 100 Terran years of age.

THAN
By Anne-Li Mell

THAN HORSE by Anna-Karin Larsson of Sweden

In the Four Countries of Portlla the fast Thaners are bred. As their cousins the Kotses Thaners are also a color-race. They are striped in gold and brown. They are often disputed whether they are goldcolored with brown stripes or brown with golden stripes. Because of that, the breed has been divided in so called Golden Thans and so called Brown Thans, where the Golden mostly are golden colored and Brown mostly are brown. Among them the Brown Thaners mostly get the desirable Golden Manes, where their manes and tails and golden, while the Golden Thans mostly get black manes and tails, although there are Golden Thans with Golden Manes (which are the most desirable of all) as well as Brown Thans with black manes and tails.

The Thans look like a sturdy race-Thoroughbred, with long legs, powerful hindquarters and a straight profile. They are bred for speed and are strong runners. There are competitions for all distances in the Four Countries. In size the Thans are about 18-19 hands high, or 158-162 cm. Only a few as 100 Thans have ever been exported outside of Portlla. The best breeder of Thans has always been the Duke of Iron of Maard.

Legend has it that the Thans are descended from a herd of golden horses belonging to the mythical Tigress and the men who were called her Tigers. Theories have been made that these so called Golden Horses were in fact Kots, but those theories have not been confirmed. Three Golden Horses were stolen from the Tigress and when crossed with Khalean Mountainhorses gave the striped Thans.

HORZ PUV
Breed profile by Dar Tayen

• Planet of origin: Gamma Sonji (Gamma Quadrant) Planet was destroyed by the dominion.
• Height: 5-21 Terrangan Hands (hand equals 4 inches)
• Wings: 5-25 Terrangan Feet, feathered like a bird of prey's wings. Proportionate to the horse's size. Some are born with wings too small or too large to fly - these are usually born neutered and do not make it past birth.

  by Marie Spinella-Phillips

• Colors: Gold, silver, iridescent, black, white, red, green, buckskin, dun, grulla, appaloosa spotted, pinto spotted, and roans. No chestnuts, bays, or palominos are known to exist. Color denotes "rank" in the herd...Gold belonging to top mare, silver to the top stallion, iridescent to the 2nd mare, black to the 2nd stallion, and all other colors can be male or female.
• Eyes: Normally brown, but during "flight" they turn silver and during "flame" they turn red.
• Hooves: Gold if gold, silver on all other colors.
• Breed Characteristics: Genetically engineered by the Iconians the PUV can wormhole through space, producing their own "slip-stream" type vortex to travel through time and space. They are telepathic and have two stomachs - one of produce flame and the other one for digestion. They do not need to breathe oxygen for more than 1 hour each day. They can survive in the cold and void of space. Riders do not need space suits as PUVS produce a natural field around their bodies as they travel in space. PUVS can eat either meat or plant life. They can absorb phaser fire from all forms of phasers including Klingon or Romulan disruptors set to kill. They absorb the phaser fire and generate it to flame. They can live to be approximately 200 years of age. It is unknown how the PUVS were genetically engineered but they are definitely a find for the UFP. The dominion desires the PUVS to be killed for unknown reasons. IMG has found 35 horses. Two PUVS (a black male and red female) are stationed in team Alpha RIELL- led by 1/2 Bajoran raised Klingon Dar Tanyen. They were first seen coming through the Bajoran wormhole by Lt. Jadzia Dax of DS9 circa the time the USS VOYAGER disappeared in the Badlands.

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