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The Horse Monuments

The inhabitants of Tierras Mágicas were well aware that some areas of the world of Plaza laid deserted as mostly unwelcoming to toy life.   The empty lands were mostly ignored, but one feature of one of these deserts called to the attention of the toys: Seemingly in the middle of nowhere stood two big wooden statues of horses standing on their back hooves.   They were approximately the same scale as the inhabitants of The Stables such as Chopek and looked very similar, but upon closer inspection, one could distinguish differences on the cuts on the wood and the paintwork.   The horses were not imbued with the Breath-of-Life, but, unlike all other sculptures and statues randomly scattered through the world of Plaza, the horse monuments generated an ominous feeling to the toys, which could have been related to the importance of horses in Tierras Mágicas.   They always seem to be next to each other, facing the same direction, which led people to believe that they stood like some sort of archway, a passage between one place and another, but their placement seemed way too random for that.
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Monument / Statue, Large
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What came after

Not long after Tierras Mágicas was destroyed and most of its surviving inhabitants fled to other worlds, the continent's geography changed tremendously in a short span of time, being filled with new mountains, rocky areas and dangerous landslides.   Someone reported that these terrain features were taken by All-Mighties from another place and that the two horses now stand somewhere in the ruinous wasteland, their majestic gaze pointing to the centre of what once was the most welcoming place in the world.


Cover image: The Lions of Vintiver's Castle by Naelin

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Author's Notes

This article is based on TJ Trewin's "400 Worldbuilding Prompts" prompt N°017: "Write about a famous statue in your world. What does it depict? What's the history behind it and how do people feel about it today? Where is it now?"


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