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Meeting the Kirin ambassadors

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This is a picture of a young Princess Cadance meeting with some of the other types of unicorns living outside of Equestria- the Kirin (or Qilin) of Neighpon. She's never seen them before as you can see on her curious expression.

I designed these two based on the more horse like description of these mythical beasts, so please meet the ambassadors of Ryumma-kyu, Neighpon, King Ryuuma-jin and Queen Sei-Ryuuma.

Ryuuma is Japanese for 'dragon horse' and 'Ryuuma-kyu' is my ponified name for the original name of Okinawa 'Ryu-kyu' which means dragon island. Their names are based on two famous dragons in Japanese stories, with 'uma' added into the word 'ryu' to make dragon-horse. Japanese ponification is easy XD

Thanks to :iconhawk9mm: for the background vector found here: [link].

~drawn on paper with a bunch of kids watching
~scanned, inked and coloured in paint tool sai
~finished in gimp.
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Nobodyspatzy
Oh do love the detail in both the picture AND the backstory behind it. I for one, LOVE the idea of more hybrid/societies of pony mixes being in the show, of even hint at somehow (Kirins/Quilins being one, HippoGriffs and Zonys are another... but I am a tad bias as I made all the mentioned into OCs too ;p)

Also want to say, those names are very clever, and fitting at the same time! Anyways, I shall stop ranting about your image, but give you this lovely comment, and a fav for the excellent work in both art and story crafting!

Thank you for sharing!