Interesting Avatars Part 3

Happy spring, everybody! Here come some more interesting equine HI2 avatars!

Gypsy Vanner: some cool silver dapples with and without blagdon. 

These dark horses have pure white manes and tails 

silver dapple bay: wow, those are some extremely beige legs and hooves! 

They go nicely with the dapples, though.

silver dapple bay blagdon: brown and gold trimmed with snowy white

silver dapple black: it looks like this one has galloped through some mud

silver dapple black blagdon: this one is my personal favorite!

What a striking contrast of black and white!

Iberian Warmblood

perlino: a pale gray body with yellow-gold mane and tail

sooty buckskin manchado: this horse gets both a dark blanket and bright white dapples

Icelandic: mosaic chestnut

This one is probably my favorite of all the mosaic avatars on the game (even though I love them all!) because of the lighter (almost flaxen!) mane and tail.

Irish Cob: dapple grey roan

Check out the light blanket and dapples! 

This avatar looks way more like an appaloosa than a roan.

Irish Sport Horse: dapple rose grey

the mane is a lighter brown than the rest of this horse's points

Kaimanawa: amber champagne

cream body, gray-brown legs, and chocolate mane and tail

Kerry Bog Pony: golden dapple grey

this one's golden chestnut rump and tail refuse to grey... 

and even the gray areas look more cream than grey.

Lusitano: 2 unusual dark horses

smoky black: dark red mane and tail

steel grey: dark dapple grey body with the dark red mane and tail

Marwari: the whites

mottled white: white horse with a bright golden blanket

speckled white: white horse with a subtle pale blanket

Morab: bay gulastra plume

what a lovely flaxen tail!

Felicity will be bringing you the final interesting avatars soon. (Believe it or not, she can fit in the rest of the alphabet in just one post.)

And now for our latest HI2 news.

The mystery of our missing well-crafted English saddle has been solved! Wonderland was wearing it. Felicity put it on him before taking his screenshot for the British Appaloosa post and forgot to take it off afterwards.

Sorry you were stuck wearing a saddle for so long, buddy!

Our other news is about... well... this is going to sound familiar... a certain mare being sold at auction. I noticed her last Saturday morning while auctioning some wild horses.

(One of them was this Sardonyx look-alike, another red roan Belgian stallion) =)

Anyway, the mare was +83, fully trained, and was going to be sold to the foreign bidder in a little over half an hour.

Being pony-sized and having that negative endurance stat probably hurt her chances of being bid on a little, but I was still shocked when, 30 minutes later, Bethany reported that there were still no other bids.

I just couldn't stand by and let her leave the game, so I bid. A long minute later,

So, we're now the owners of Nebula, a pretty, blue-eyed, dun tobiano Icelandic. Since Quip has already asserted her claim on our March slot, we don't know yet if Nebula be staying permanently. We'll see what happens in April.

It's fun having her around now, whatever her future holds. Her avatar is a pretty close representation of her profile pic. She's such a dark shade of dun that she looks more like a bay tobiano than a dun tobiano. =)

Interesting Avatars Part 2

Bethany here to point out some more interesting HI2 avatars. Without further ado, here it goes!

British Spotted Pony: some unique roans with different colored manes and tails

black varnish: this one also has black dapples!

brown roan: this ones's legs and muzzle are a darker brown than both the mane and tail. Also note the pale but definitely not white blanket.

bay roan: another pale blanket and a smokey gray tail

strawberry roan: the tail is almost as pale as the blanket

Budyonny: dapple rose gray

The rest of the horse is graying, but the tail is determined to stay chestnut. ;^)

Calabrese: dapple rose gray

Another rose gray with mismatched mane and tail. I appreciate how the mane matches the dapples and the tail matches the legs and muzzle.

Criollo: seal brown

Black body and deep red mane and tail! If the mane and tail were a little lighter, this one could pass as an Esroh!

Datong: sooty palomino

Lots of shades of tan are going on here, and that pale gold mane really stands out!

Dutch Tuigpaard: honey roan

I added this one to Xylyl's list. (I think the breed is also too new for it to have made it on there.) Grayish tan body, orange legs and muzzle, and bright golden mane and tail? Somehow, it works!

Estonian Native Horse: a trio of mosaics

bay-black mosaic: in my opinion, the most striking of the three

bay-chestnut mosaic: bay and golden chestnut on one horse! It's probably good they decided not to give it a chestnut tail.

brown-black mosaic: this looks more like a dark bay-black mosaic to me, but at any rate, what a cool horse!

Florida Cracker: sooty palomino

Wow, what a contrast of dark brown and pale gold!

(For comparison, here is Forte's, our sooty palomino Hanoverian's, avatar: very handsome, but not nearly as extreme a contrast)

Franches Montagne: freckled white

No freckles here! Instead we get a pale cream and white horse with light gray pinto pattern on top. I like how Xylyl described this one as a sort of "albino mosaic."

Georgian Grande: sooty palomino

A deep golden palomino with a brown blanket and pure white mane and tail!

That's enough avatars for today. Check back later for the next installment from Felicity or Julie. 

We've had a pretty low-key week on HI2. Lily did name her new Hanoverian, though. Meet Quip!

She seems to be settling into the herd just fine despite her "gadfly" personality label.

Also, I had an opportunity at buying yet another cremello Florida Cracker mare today! She was for sale in the auction house.

Sorry, you beautiful mare, but I will not be swayed in my quest for a light gray or a perlino!

Finally, here is another pretty mare I just had to show off, the Georgian Grande that Felicity and Gromit fluted this afternoon.

Apricot duns are so lovely!

Here's one more look at her avatar, this time from the front:

Maybe I can get my sisters on board with retiring her to our Millennium Fields?

March Mares

I'm afraid that Interesting Avatars Part 2 isn't ready yet. It will be coming soon, but the weather is too nice this weekend for any of us to buckle down on it. I did want to quickly share with you our latest HI2 news, though.

Our paths crossed with 3 great mares this past week. (We've been keeping an eye out for mares especially because we have two more stallions than mares in the herd right now.)

Bethany spotted the first in the livery.

Her breed, personality, and color are all strikes against her being adopted. We happen to be quite fond of Kaimanawas, though (just ask Yonder and Blush <3). If she'd had one more stat point, Bethany may have caved. I hope somebody found her and took her home!

Rally and I fluted the second on Sunny Glade Isle.

As far as the short-necked Iberian Warmbloods go, she is a great one! Her hooves and her luxurious mane make me smile, and her stats are pretty good too. It's too bad they're not high enough for her to stay permanently.

I spotted the third mare in the auction house on Friday evening. Her auction was nearly over, so I didn't have much time at all to deliberate. After consulting with Julie (Lily and Bethany were in another room), I decided to make the minimum bid. A long minute later,



I know, I know. The new month had hardly started, and here I was already filling our March slot. I hope when you see her you will understand. 

I intended her to be a surprise gift for Lily, our resident Hanoverian lover. I figured that Forte, her dream sooty palomino stallion, would like a Hanoverian friend. Our herd has also been sadly lacking one of the coolest horse colors out there, rose gray, for years, and this was my chance to remedy that. 

Not only is she pretty in her profile, but her avatar is a winner too!

Her only drawback is her personality label, Gadfly. (The nicest definition of gadfly I've been able to find is somebody who upsets the status quo. I won't bother to share the less endearing ones. ;^))

How did Lily react? Well, I think Hanoverians are to her like Nezes are to me. She tried to act like she was displeased and like I shouldn't have done it, but I could tell it was just that: an act. Next time I checked online, the mare looked like this:

I think we all know what that means. XD You're welcome, sis.