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tagged by: @displacer-beasts and @fluff-writing (thank you double whammy tag!!)

last song: I Will Never Die by Delta Rae. This is one of my favourite songs in general, but lately I've been listening to it for various Diablo related reasons. There is something to angry and guttural about it that I love.

"Cause I loved you for too long I loved you for too long I loved you for too long Old heat of a raging fire Come and light my eyes Summer's kiss to electric wire But I'll never die"

This is so everyone coded to me, like there is my own stuff with Zora and Tyrael divorce, there is canon Adreona and Lorath, but not as a ship, there is some Lilith and Inarius (I actually like that ship as a toxic thing).

Also this part is just so Tree of Whispers and Lorath pledging his head to it, and general vibe to some of the early Diablo IV stories:

"Sycamore, ash, moss, and loam Wrap your roots all around my bones And when they come for me, when they call my name Cast my shadow from a bellow's flame"

current obsession: Diablo! I only just got into it, because last time I was into Diablo, it was when I was ~14 and I was too scared to play it, so I just watched the Tyrael cinematics and read the wiki (did not know English well enough to understand much).

Now when my friend said "Hey that guy you like is back in Diablo IV", there was no chance I wasn't going to run and finally play this game after 15 years of yearning for Tyrael, one of my first fictional loves.

currently reading: I need to finish the last 30 pages of "The Lost Horadrim", but work got in the way. I will definitely finish it though, as it was a good book (despite me not liking Lorath/Adreona), and I am not sure what to read after it. (I am open to any recommendation from anyone, Diablo or otherwise)

currently working on: A music video for work and finishing my graduation film, but on the fun side, I am making Zora's story, backstory, her adventures with Tyrael and when I finally play Lord of Hatred, I can write out the divorce. I also need to do some more Diablo art in general (which is hard cause my style is very World of Warcraft)

currently wearing: A white summer dress with a cherry print (it's so hot here).

last search: Tree of Whispers, because I forgot what it's called and "Fuckass Tree", "The Creepy Tree", "I hope we burn that shit down", "Please don't make me save our quick portal here" were not the correct ways to refer to it (I have not played Lord of Hatred at all, but I really hope we don't see the Fuckass Tree anyone, since it was absent in Vessel of Hatred)

favourite flower: Calla lilies! In fact, one of mine bloomed not too long ago with three flowers, so now I will show them off! 💙

In the book, Lorath tends to a mare named Zerae and her baby colt named Arjak. Zerae is described as dapple grey, which is this color, with some variations, and it comes from a base black gene and a graying gene (that gives the "white" color)

Arjak on the other hand is described as white. Now, while not impossible, most horses are not actually white. They are not born white. The horses we know as white, are actually grey, starting off either black or chestnut, and they progressively lose their color until they are very light grey. A lot of times they look dapple for few years until they become "white" (I got to watch on of the young stallions at my ranch go through this). These white horses, that are dark around the muzzle, are not born white, they are born another color and progressively become white.

You can note this because they have dark around their mouth, as grey horses have dark skin.

This is a dapple mare with a little dark baby, but the baby has a high chance of becoming grey or dapple by the time it matures.

However, a horse CAN be fully white, even though it's very, very rare and this might've been done as symbolism in the book (Lorath bonds with the horse and sees himself and his lost innocence in a white foal and is scared the foal will die without his mother, which symbolizes that death of Lorath's own innocence after Malthael's reaping.)

A fully white colt could come if he has a rare combo of dominant white gene, be a very rare white-born foal which carries a very strong white leopard gene that basically covers the whole body in dots so it appears white, or maybe look white, but actually be double dilute coated cremello or prelino. Either way, these horses will have a bit of a rosy pink skin to them, unlike the greys.

(these are white dominant, white-born leopard and a very diluted perlino, in that order. Note the pink around the eyes, nose and stomach)