Horse Yokai

**Horse Yokai** are rideable beings who are used for transportation for many Yokai living in the Wild West or countryside of the Hidden World.

## Physical Appearance

Wild Horse Yokai has the appearance of their Surface World counterparts. They can have various colors and patterns on their manes, coats and tails. The domesticed Horse Yokai would often wear saddle and other equipment that their owners have put them on for riding purposes. Some Horse Yokai are anthropomorphic. Their legs are horse-like and they have human-like fingers.

## Description

Horse Yokai are friendly creatures who lives in the countryside of the Hidden World. Like their Surface World counterparts, many Yokai living in the countryside often has horses as companions. Using them as their main transportation to get from one place to another. Wild Horse Yokai can be seen grazing at the meadows when Yokai from the city visits the countryside. Some Horse Yokai are anthropomorphic and are able to speak human speech.

## Abilities

Here are the abilities that Horse Yokai can have in their arsenal:

* Enhanced Balance
* Equid Physiology
	+ Enhanced Hearing
	+ Enhanced Leap
	+ Enhanced Smell
	+ Enhanced Speed
	+ Enhanced Strength
	+ Expanded View
	+ Powerful Bite
	+ Prey Instinct
* Night Vision

### Variations

* **Draft Horse Physiology**: Enhanced Endurance, Enhanced Strength
* **Oriental Horse Physiology**: Desert Adaptation, Enhanced Endurance, Enhanced Speed
* **Pony Physiology**: Enhanced Endurance, Self-Sustenance, Indomitable Will
* **Race Horse Physiology:** Enhanced Speed, Enhanced Stamina, Popularity
* **Wild Horse Physiology**: Enhanced Endurance, Self-Sustenance

### Mythical Horses

* **Abada Physiology**
* **Alicorn Physiology**
* **Centaur Physiology**
* **Each uisge Physiology**: Feral Mind, Shapeshifting, Aquatic Adaptation, Adhesive Secretion
* **Fire Horse Physiology**
* **Flesh-Eating Mares of Diomedes**: Carnivorous Horse Physiology
* **Hippalectryon Physiology**: Galliform Physiology, Wing Manifestation
* **Hippalectryon Physiology**
* **Hippocampus Physiology**
* **Hippogriff Physiology**
* **Longma Physiology**
* **Malora Physiology**
* **Pegasus Physiology**
* **Sleipnir Physiology**: Supernatural Condition, Divine Beast Physiology, Multiple Legs, Unrestricted Movement, Perfection (Best among Horses)
* **Tikbalang Physiology**
* **Unicorn Physiology**
* **Uchchaihshravas Physiology**
* **Water Horse Physiology (Ceffyl Dŵr, Bäckahästen)**: Aquatic Adaptation
	+ **Kelpie Physiology**
* **White Horse Physiology**

### Associations

* Animal Imitation
* Animal Morphing
* Mammal Manipulation
* Mammal Transmutation
* Mammalian Physiology
	+ Ungulate Physiology
		- Equid Physiology

Horses are associated with great number of mystical and supernatural abilities and connections in mythology and folklore, thus user with this power may have access to: War Manipulation, War Inducement, Fertility Inducement

## Pop Culture

Modern horses are often used to reenact many of their historical work purposes. Horses are used, complete with equipment that is authentic or a meticulously recreated replica, in various live action historical reenactments of specific periods of history, especially recreations of famous battles. Horses are also used to preserve cultural traditions and for ceremonial purposes. Countries such as the United Kingdom still use horse-drawn carriages to convey royalty and other VIPs to and from certain culturally significant events. Public exhibitions are another example, such as the Budweiser Clydesdales, seen in parades and other public settings, a team of draft horses that pull a beer wagon similar to that used before the invention of the modern motorized truck.

Horses are frequently used in television, films and literature. They are sometimes featured as a major character in films about particular animals, but also used as visual elements that assure the accuracy of historical stories. Both live horses and iconic images of horses are used in advertising to promote a variety of products. The horse frequently appears in coats of arms in heraldry, in a variety of poses and equipment. The mythologies of many cultures, including Greco-Roman, Hindu, Islamic, and Norse, include references to both normal horses and those with wings or additional limbs, and multiple myths also call upon the horse to draw the chariots of the Moon and Sun.[209] The horse also appears in the 12-year cycle of animals in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

## Variations

### Abada Yokai

Abada Yokai are mythical unicorn-like animals which has two crooked horns, opposed to a single horn.

### Alicorn Yokai

Alicorn Yokai has the wings of a pegasus and the horn of a unicorn.

### Centaur Yokai

Centaur Yokai are a hybrid between a human and a horse. They have the upper body of a human and the lower body of a horse.

### Fire Horse Yokai

Fire Horse Yokai has the appearance of a normal horse but their manes and tails are made out of flames.

### Hippalectryon Yokai

Hippalectryon Yokai is a hybrid between a rooster and a horse that appears in Greek Mythology.

### Hippocampus Yokai

Hippocampus Yokai are mythological creatures shared by Phoenician and Greek mythology, and it was also adopted into Etruscan mythology, though the name by which it is recognized is purely Greek.

### Hippogriff Yokai

Hippogriff Yokai are legendary creatures that's supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a mare.

### Longma Yokai

Longma Yokai are winged horses with dragon scales in Chinese mythology.

### Malora Yokai

Malora Yokai are also known as the "Headless Mule" due to missing a head. Instead, it has flames coming out of their necks.

### Pegasus Yokai

Pegasus Yokai are winged horses from Greek Mythology who has the ability to fly.

### Tikbalang Yokai

Tikbalang Yokai are mythical horse-like creatures of the Philippines, generally described as a tall, bony humanoid creature with disproportionately long limbs, to the point that its knees reach above its head when it squats down.

### Unicorn Yokai

Unicorn Yokai are magical creatures who has a single horn on their heads. Those with two horns are called Bicorn Yokai.

### Uchchaihshravas Yokai

Uchchaihshravas Yokai are mythical flying horses that has seven heads in total.

### Kelpie Yokai

Kelpie Yokai are mythical water horses of Irish Mythology that can assume a human form and has the power of seduction towards human females.

## Life in the Hidden World

Many Yokai from the Wild West or the countryside of the Hidden World uses Horse Yokai as the main transportation to get from one place to another. Due to their strength, they can pull heavy cargo. Some are used to pull carriages with people riding the carriages. Some participates in horse racing which is popular among both humans and Yokai alike. These yokai can also participate in equestrians to show off their skills in front of the crowd. Rodeos have horse riding which has the rider stay on the horse as long as they can before they are thrown off of the Horse Yokai. In some regions of the Hidden World, they make many meals with horse meat. Though it's consider taboo to eat horse meat in other regions where it's prohibited to make money with horse meat.

## Symbolism

The horse commonly symbolizes power, grace, beauty, nobility, strength and freedom. Many cultures attribute the four elements - earth, fire, water and air - to the horse. The horse symbolizes many different things throughout the world.