Original Description:
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