March 12, 2022

Kirins | MLP:FiM
Headcanon...maybe?
In fact it's just on my style...almost :')
I'm not sure I'll draw Rain Shine the same way in future, but...probably I do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(text was translated from rus to eng with help of Yandex.Translate. Sorry for mistakes!)

• Kirins (character: Autumn Blaze)
Small forest nation. I think that they can be a subspecies of unicorns, that is conditionally still ponies. And that is, Kirins are an offshoot of unicorns that inhabit the eastern lands of Equestria in forest villages, they're separated in ancient times into a separate subspecies with its own culture, external signs and magical aura. Their special difference from ordinary unicorns can be explained in theory precisely by the fact that the subspecies separated a long time ago, developed itself on the basis of ancient magic and their structure of the species was formed because of this in special way, which affected the culture, features and appearance. Kirins are more ancient unicorns than average horned ponies. Their more modern descendant is the Eastern European unicorns (in cartoon were unicorn with curled horns, I think they're)

• Quilins (character: Rain Shine)
Not separate subspecies. Quilins are approximately equal in features to an alicorns of ponies. They become qilins, less often they are born from two qilins and they are natural leaders. They are also more powerful in magic, more close to nature and spirit world, live longer (about 1.5-2 kirin lives, sometimes more) and are special in appearance. For kirins, quilins are like demigods, in the manner of alicorns in ponies, as it was said. Each qilin has theirs own abilities related to nature. For example, it can be controlling the weather on a certain land, "playing" with natural tricks like crystallization, iridescence of light and possession of plants.
According to their legends, it is believed that it was the quilins who were the progenitors of the kirin species, and these (kirins) appeared already because of their connections with ponies. Although it is not a fact that this is true. Perhaps a folk myth.

○ A little bit about the niriks:
In my understanding, world has place for niriks, but there is one important difference - it is not a symbol of anger and unbridled emotions, but an inner element peculiar to beings living according to the laws of the most ancient magic.
Every kirin has a form of nirik. Everyone learns to control it from childhood. Only uncontrolled nirik is sign of bad character, bad upbringing or mental problems.
Also, the niriki are not the same for each kirin - the color of the fire may be different depending on the kirin, and also it does not necessarily correspond to the fire. There are, however, very rarely, kirins, whose nirik's form has power over water, earth, light or even ice. The magical shape of nirik's hair will repeat fire in any case, but its color can be green\blue\white (never black!) and not to burn, but sometimes, on the contrary, to exude cold.
Nirik is, as saying, a special kind of Kirin magic.
And the qilins don't have a niric form as such, that is, they do not transform into another form, when using such magic they are simply engulfed in their flames.

• Special things of exterior:
○ Kirin
- Permanent features that are always present in a purebred kirin - curved horn like tree branch with magical stripes; plates-shields on muzzle, extending from the tip of nose to place between ears; scales on all back, which slightly covers shoulders and reaches base of tail; cloven hooves, less often with an additional hooves like deer; "leonine" tail of medium length with thick brush; thick and more often wavy mane passing over chest and a little belly, but not always; eyebrows-dots; "open" ears like a deer.
- Optional features that can occur both often and rarely - fetlocks to match wool; fur on hocks and sometimes elbows; plates-shields on legs from fetlocks to knee/hock joints; scales on tail and/or a larger area on trunk and neck; sprouts on horns, especially in a large number; a very stiff and straight mane, either not affecting chest at all, or vice versa growing on a larger area; bangs falling on face and not back of head; dark and light markings.
○ Quilin
- Permanent mandatory features- curved horn with sharp ends; "crown" of processes resembling horns; lush, often two-colored mane, necessarily passing to the chest and abdomen, larger than those of kirins; plates-shields on muzzle, extending from the nose to back of head; intermittent eyebrows, imitating shape of ordinary ones; a very long "leonine" tail with lush long brush; cloven hooves; scales on back, shoulders, neck, croup, beginning of the tail, often spreading more smooth growth line; plates-shields on legs from fetlocks to knee/hock joints: long lush fur on cannon bones; growth is noticeably higher than kirins.
- Optional features that occur frequently, but are not mandatory for identification - comb on base of tail and croup; hooves in tone of t"crown" and/or deer (with additional fingers); scales on cheeks; thick fetlocks; multicolored mane; light and dark markings.