Old New Borrowed and Blue, Auction

on hold for ~Wolfs-Rain-Gurl for the second bid

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These guys are for sale, info at the bottom!


Ink woke up after a long stint of office work in the barn to see Arthur faffing around in the hay and staring out of a frosty window. He looked both intrigued and worried, which was a strange combination for him. The teeny girl practically fell out of the partially converted hay loft to check on her equine brother. He swivelled his eared quick as a flash and turned to greet her, but with a little haste in his usually even voice.
“Ah, Alastair, you’re up!” He snorted at the hay in her hair and then turned to business. Wildly bobbing his head at the window he huffed out, “there’s Strangers out there.”
“Huh?” she said, straining to get on his back to peep out of the high glass, “what kind of strangers?”
“Kin.”
Ink’s efforts to get a better look failed miserably when she fell in shock at those words, the only thing Arthur ever called Kin besides her was other Rúna , and there were no other Rúna out at 5 in the morning. Or at least shouldn’t be.
She pulled on a huge fluffy coat and her trusty battered wolf hat, and dashed outside with Arthur to go check on these wanderers.

The stallion had not been mistaken. There were four Rúna stood to the side of one of the stables, and they appeared to be trying to converse with someone inside. On closer inspection Ink realised that they were on the outside of Heart’s stall and she was trying to be as helpful as she could by yelling through the high window.
“It’s alright Baby, we’ve got it covered.” Arthur bellowed through the wall, “Go back to sleep!”
The four new horses looked at the strange approaching cavalry. They were from Ink’s highly trained point of view, obviously related, but she wasn’t quite sure how. They were quite a jumble and by the looks hadn’t had any real human contact for over a year.
“Hello…?” the closest one said. He spoke in a Northern accent, Yorkshire maybe. He had a battered look to him, but shined under the sun in typical Rúna fashion. This put his age somewhere close to 60. There was one yearling, and the other two looked to be in their mid twenties.
“Come to the barn, you can talk there in comfort.” Arthur said, as Ink called Ed as a living alarm clock, to kick both him and Amy out of bed.
“… and call the Overbourne folks if they’re not to dead to the world.” She finished up as they made their way back to the big warm barn for a chat, some food and a brush down.


INFORMAL AUCTION YEY.
Okay this is just a dumb idea I had to get a few people in to Rúna. It’s kinda targeted at a group of affiliates or friends or something (or take them all yourself idk). Anyway, these guys turned up on our doorstep a few days ago and they’d like to move on.
Here’s some info we pulled out of them over the past few days:

They have travelled from Yorkshire to SWS to seek help finding secure homes after their equine parents died, their human mother died and their ranch went bankrupt. They are indeed siblings, but spaced out nicely around 60 years. They’d like to stay in touch somehow by going to a group of affiliates or staying together.
(Looks wise, you can invent what you can’t see but keep in mind that their allotted knots are on both flanks. Also note that knots are paled by white markings)
Make sure to have read all the existing breed info, all available from the group, also note that breedings are currently shut down for the whole breed due to lack of info.

far left
Name: Something Old
Barn name: Ӕldu
Age: 62
Gender: Gelding
Height: 15.2hh
Genotype: Ee/Aa /Ff⁺
• He said the four of them are named after the marriage saying; something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. Apparently it was always the intention to breed 4 of them but a few things went wrong.
• Apparently their official barn names are singular nominative Old English for their suffix show name (in exception to Áborgan whose name is inflective infinitive due to it being a verb).
• Hinted that his twin was also a gelding but has been dead for some time, also that he was the original New, so it is possible he died some time after Borrowed and Blæwen were born.
• Is a complacent but chatty fellow.

middle left
Name: Something New
Barn name: Edníwe
Age: 1
Gender: Colt
Height: Projected at 16.2hh
Genotype: EE/Aa/PDpd/nTo
• He says he has never had a twin, so we assume it was a stillborn. This may explain why he is quite large for a Rúna yearling.
• Is very playful and bouncy.

middle right
Name: Something Borrowed
Barn name: Áborgan
Age: 26
Gender: Mare
Height: 15.3hh
Genotype: ee /F Ff⁺/nTo
• She is Blæwen’s twin
• She refers to her name as a bad pun on her being the only female, borrowed.
• She’s talkative and defensive, also heavy on the sarcasm.

far right
Name: Something Blue
Barn name: Blæwen
Age: 26
Gender: Stallion
Height: 16hh
Genotype: Ee/PDpd/F Ff⁺/nTo (EF pseudo dun grulla tobiano)
• He is Áborgan’s twin
• He’s kind of cocky and obnoxious, but well-meaning.


To apply for these guys, state who will be trying for which horse and their stable names (You can split them up however, or not at all and go for them all yourself) and I’ll register you here. The best group will win the quad.
The deadline for registering is January 31st and the deadline for entries is February 15th


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