Information

Name: Ziara

Nickname: Zee

Age: _{21 Years Old (Summer Year 380)}

Zodiac Sign: TBA

Height: _{15.2 hh}

Breed: _Morab

Orientation: Straight

Herd Affiliation: Olde Herd

Rank: Defender Mage

Family:

_{Sister: Arianna Owned by Dakaree}

Personality

Positive

Caring | Brave | Free-Spirited | Intelligent

_Caring

<sub>Ziara's herd does matter a great deal to her because she has been around them all her life. As much of an independent spirit that she is, she needs them but she will never admit that out loud. She will always offer a shoulder to cry on or a listening ear if any member needs it because she hates anyone feeling alone with their problems.

Brave</sub>

<sub>Being part of the herd's guard she must be able to stand up and fight when the herd need her, and Ziara is afraid of almost nothing. She hates looking weak and will never shed a tear unless she had been broken beyond repair or physically incapable of carrying on. She (over) works herself to the bone until she can go no more because she hates giving up on things. Sure, Ziara has her fears too but she has to keep it together for the image others have of her and always tries to keep up a smile and a cheerful joke to lighten any mood in bad situations.

Free-Spirited</sub>

_{Though she is very devoted to her job, she is also incredibly curious and investigative. This often means that if there is a lack of activity in her job she will most definitely disappear to explore anything that catches her interest. She is always willing to learn more and a lot of things catch her interest.}

Negative

Reckless | Self Destructive | Stubborn

_Reckless

<sub>When she gets too worked up Ziara can get a little messy in how she goes about fighting, even though she is very skilled. She might accidentally knock into the wrong person, break something of her own or act to rashly and jump to conclusions because she is quite hot blooded and gets caught up in the moment.

Self Destructive</sub>

<sub>She tends to over work herself very very often, pushing her limits way too much because she doesn't want to believe she has limits in the first place. She's just way too eager to work and wishes to improve herself as much as she can but this often works against her. She ends up exhausted and collapsing in the place she was exploring and disappearing for a couple of days without remembering how she ended up there. Nowadays, the only thing she focuses on is her gift and her training giving her a little bit of a tunnel vision in most cases.

Stubborn</sub>

_{She refuses to let others in on her problems when she has them or let others get in danger when she's in a fight. Incredibly stubborn Ziara seldom takes advice from anyone even though she does appreciate it she is too determined to do things her own way.}

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History

Ziara even as a child was always off trying to explore different areas of their island much to her mothers worry. Though it was hard on her not knowing who her father was or what had happened to him, since she was afraid of asking her mother. During her foal hood, she had a best friend whom she always used to get into trouble with, the young colt though highly religious always followed her wherever she went... Even if he himself wasn't so sure the places they explored were so safe half the time.              

On Bloom's arrival to the herd as a small foal, Ziara was already 4 years of age and curiously came to meet the new arrival in the hope of making a new friend... However, that was not the case... On this day, Vasska's father, Valentine, discovered that Zia's sister was in love with their king to be and worse, that the feelings were mutual. He wouldn't accept this insubordination and decided to exile Ziara's whole family because they brought disgrace to the throne... However, Their mother was very ill at the time and did not make the swim to the Eastern Island, Arriana had tried to pull her out of the water but it was to late. Exhaustion had taken their mother's illness ridden soul to the heavens as the current king of olde looked on to the two orphans from the other side of the ocean.

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Bachelor Years

_{Ziara's days on the eastern island were filled with terror, as a 4 year old filly she followed her sister across the island as they hoped to make their escape towards the exiles... They had heard of the cruel ways of the bachelors towards mares and dared not seek refuge with them. Unfortunately, they were caught by guards and forced to be a part of the herd. Day in day out Ziara watched as they mistreated her sister. Incapable of doing anything about it and feeling helpless. She spoke to all the mares often and was even righteous back then. She tried to convince the mares to group together and protest or plan an escape. However, she was caught and threatened that instead of killing her there and then, they would wait to the day when she was fully grown and break her until the light in her eyes was no longer there. They taunted her every day, often physically beating her as she grew.
Somehow, she never lost herself. She refused to give up.
Only getting herself in more trouble of course... Though night terrors of her mother's death and the stallions threats taunted her as the days to her 12th birthday grew closer... Her sister often comforting her at night due to the horrible things she had seen in her time in bachelors...
Three nights before Ziara would come of age, they managed to escape. Her and her sister fled the island in the middle of the night, in the hope that they would be let back into the Olde herd... With Valentine still at rule however, this was a dangerous move so they resorted to hiding in the loners shadows of the Northern Land till word came round that Vasska was finally king.}

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_{One day whilst Ziara was trying to train to become the guard she always wished to be, she had taken her best friend into the city despite his attempts to change her mind. Wondering way too far the inexperienced youngsters were soon spotted by a mass of wild animals. As much as Ziara tried her best at outrunning them, the colt was much weaker than her and soon tripped over some overgrown vines that had gathered at the floor of the city. When she ran to help him, herd members suddenly appeared and fought off the wild animals... However, it was too late for the little colt and Ziara collapsed when they told her to return to the herd territory without him. Everything was her fault, how could she have let this happen?} 

_{Ever since she has had an extreme sense of guilt towards the past and became overly protective of the friendships she created as she grew up. Her drive to become a guard was strengthened by the horrifying experience and she would sacrifice everything to never let that happen again. That is why her determination to improve is so over exaggerated and she hates to seem weak.}

_{She often prays before a fight or when she knows she is going to explore dangerous places. Not so much because she is as religious by nature as the rest of the herd but because it had become a habit... Praying with her best friend when they were foals and even though she often made fun of him for it, she felt that she owed him that much to keep up the tradition and had slowly begun to become overly religious and devoted to the laws of the herd and enforcing them. When she prays, she asks the gods to pass her messages onto him in the hope that somehow he could forgive her because she wasn't capable of forgiving herself.}

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