Unicorn

A unicorn is an elusive relative of the horse with a spiral, pointed horn on its head. They are most commonly pearl white, but can have coats of other colors. Many, especially older individuals, have fuller manes across their whole neck and flank, not just on the crest as with horses. They can have longer, fleshier tails, much like a lion's, with the typical horselike hair at the end.
Unicorns are wild creatures that despite their purity can be corrupted into beastialness, yet even still are rarely aggressive unless disturbed or provoked. They thoroughly resist capture. Unicorns, though, have the highest number among them of Wise Ones.
Unicorn products are prized for their powerful properties. The hair, milk, hoof trimmings, even spittle, urine, and manure can be taken or found without harm to the animal. The horn can be trimmed as well, but it is extremely difficult to do so without incurring severe injury and does damage the horn's spiral pattern. Horn, leather, bone, teeth, eyes, blood, and offal are incredibly powerful ingredients of varying forbidence that can be taken from a dead or injured unicorn. Killing a unicorn is seen as a grave omen and is outlawed in kingdoms across the globe, the hunt strictly reserved for the kings that dare to take it up.
==Horn==
The strength of a unicorn lies in its horn, so when the horn is removed it is greatly weakened and nearly not magical at all. Unicorn horn is a highly prized substance as it has a strong poison-neutralizing effect. It can be shaped into a cup which will neutralize any poison put into it, allowing kings to drink without concern or cupbearer. For food, a section of the horn can be inserted into the dish and if it becomes hot and gives off smoke, then the dish is poisoned or otherwise unsafe to eat, as indeed rotten meat will illicit this reaction. It can alternatively be ground into a powder that will have the same effect when sprinkled into a liquid, even evaporating poison itself when added to it. When a unicorn drinks from a pond or river, even, that water is assuredly safe to drink. Rulers attempt to keep unicorns in their gardens for this reason, in addition to harvesting their live produce. The horn can have general warding properties and its healing ability is moderate for wounds but salutary to many diseases otherwise incurable. Wands, sword hilts, and thrones have been made of unicorn horn.
Along with cleansing powers, unicorn horn powder is used in rituals to divine the virginity of an unmarried woman and believed to help a man raise his own horn. Serious alchemists have not found either of these to demonstrable effects of the substance. The sale of fake unicorn horn is also rampant, charlatans obtaining horn from exotic animals or beasts and claiming them to be from a unicorn. Given the danger and taboo of getting the horn from a unicorn, it is best to be suspicious when being sold the substance.
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==Capture==
Unicorns can be hunted and killed as game, much like deer, but swifter and employing illusion and enchantment to escape the hunter. To avoid the cursing magic released upon killing one, the unicorn can be restrained—with ropes of unicorn hair from previous hunts the best—and any products harvested, including shavings of the horn. It is believed that only wounding the unicorn or shaving its horn without removing it will allow it to heal and grow back and thus avoid the curse of slaying the creature. Another method is to stand so that you are between the unicorn and a substantial tree (not one of wood or bark too hard), to goad the unicorn to charge, and then at the last second step aside so that the unicorn will embed its horn in the tree. Then its hair can be trimmed and anything else collected. It is thought best to pull it out from the tree afterward to avoid any curses for leaving it in such a state.
The alternative to scrupulous hunting is to have someone truly pure at heart (never struck someone, never broken anything, etc.) approach the unicorn who it will be tame and gentle towards, showing its sign of true tameness: laying its head on the exemplar's lap. At this point men may move and try to capture it, though causing alarm and breaking the exemplar's enchantment. If the unicorn is properly secured swiftly enough, it will be in the captor's control. It is suggested that the examplar continue to comfort it, assuring it will suffer no harm, so that its products can be collected or it be brought to a king's garden. If a promise of no harm is made to a unicorn and yet they are still bled or their horn shaved, the lie is known to release violent enchantments and hexes in retribution. It is also not recommended to attempt capture of a wise unicorn as their wisdom and comprehension of speech will make all efforts to convince them futile and exemplars are of only marginal interest to them.
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==Domestication==
Through a sincere connection or an intertwined fate, or by befriending a wise unicorn, they can be tamed for continued cooperation with people.
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==Corruption==
If attacked or wounded enough, if possessed, or through sorcerers or evil places unicorns can become corrupted. They turn black and may also become ragged. In this state, they are vicious beasts more terrifying than stallions bred for war. If ever redeemed from their corruption, their horn will return to white but their coat will remain black.
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==Habitat==
Feral or migrant unicorns are found living in forests across Odenna, with plains varieties in Tanus as well. Wild populations are from Mittoronti, esp. Hamazan. The monoceros is the only unicorn relative found wild in Ellador.
Unicorns also frequent fairy fountains and shrines to drink from the magical waters.
==Relatives==
===Alicorn===
An alicorn can be seen as a winged unicorn or a pegasus with a unicorn horn. They indeed are more closely related to unicorns and they exhibit many of the same properties and abilities which pegasuses do not. The term alicorn can sometimes be used to refer specifically to unicorn horn as a substance as well (see above).
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===Monoceros===
Also monocerus, is burly, shaggy, robust rhino-like unicorn found in North Ellador. They tend to have darker-colored horns than the typical white. Monoceroses enjoy wallowing, in mud to cool off, and in slime, often from the slain, to coat themselves in mild enchantments.
===Liocorn===
Also liocorne, is in appearance like a cross between a lion and unicorn. It has a lion-like head and feline mane, with either 4 unicorn legs having furrier hooves or lion paws in the from and typical unicorn hooves in the back. Males often grow wings, while both males and females have manes.
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==Manuscript Gallery==
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==Image Gallery==
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==Sources==
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_horn
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/#Cosmas_Indicopleustes
Category:Animals