I hope people don’t mind if I drop the in-world bio of these characters. It was a fun creative idea at first, but has gotten kinda stale; At least for me to write anyway. I was struggling to find new and interesting ways for what essentially the same dynamic
But I’ll still happily provide bios for these characters in a more straight forward manner.
Zecora is a Shaman, a master of one of the few non-unicorn magical discplines. As such, little is really known about her abilities. Lacking a horn, she isn’t able to channel mana into energies intuitively like a unicorn. Instead, she maintains a life of harmony with the minor spirits that live around her and in nature itself, often through archaic rituals. The most obvious and simple of which involves a near constant ritual of speaking in rhymes. this has the effect of attracting spirits to her and ready use, though why this seems to work is beyond the understanding of most.
These spirits respond to Zecora’s bidding channel mana into potent, if subtle magic. Divination and medicine seem to be her strengths, but it’s not unheard of for a shaman to wield powerful elemental forces, or to summon power personifications of nature spirit’s themselves.
Zecora is also a potent alchemist, familiar with a great variety of herbs, and the poultices and potions that can be made with them. Some are helpful and healing, while others are lethal acids and gases that can be used as improvised grenades.
