EMP-214: Jade Hoof

Diamond Hoof was a divided grifix that lived during the great migration. She was strangely healthy, despite having extreme coughing attacks, she would just ignore them and carry on with her job despite… almost falling onto the ground because of how bad her coughing was. She was very bossy, but everyone ignored her. She was also was bluffing a lot and lying for attention which made her get into some weird situations where she had to do extreme stuff to prove herself, and somehow was doing everything successfully despite not even her believing it. Still the grifix knew she was lying and decided to just ignore her instead of risking her life. The only ones that paid attention to her were the little fillies, who believed everything she said and were highly impressed by her high and almighty attitude. Considering everyone ignored her, she took what attention she got, so she would spend a lot of time with the kids. Despite saying all those stuff about herself that made her seem mighty and important, she had never done anything special, but the fate would give her a way to stand out soon enough. When the time of the great migration came, all the divided grifix wanted to remain with their newfound queen, Selenara, who was bound to remain and guard the forest. But they all knew how dangerous it was gonna be. They didn’t want to take their children with them. So they assigned her to go with the rest of the grifix in the Great Migration and take care of all their children. Of course she replied with “what am I, a babysitter??” but the next moment you could see her walk away to gather all the kids. She swore to herself that they would all make it safely to the end of their journey, and she kept her promise, for how much it was possible. A few of the fillies died because of their illness, but none because of the journey. And she carried all of their bodies to the New Empire, and buried them under the walls of the Empire.

During the journey, other non-divided grifix cubs would come around the divided ones to play. Dumb Diamond Hoof didn’t notice there were new ones, despite her noticing immediately when one was missing. Once a new filly popped up around her, it was her duty to keep it alive. Still, she would treat all of them as if they were divided and made of glass and about to explode any minute, which made it a little awkward for the healthy fillies, but hey, better safe than sorry.

When they arrived in the place they were going to build the empire, the other Grifix tried to hunt but they weren’t able to catch anything. Turns out they always tried to use their wings, but the powerful winds made it impossible for them to hunt. She was the only one who could hunt out there, because she wasn’t using any wings. So she became the hunter trainer, teaching all grifix new techniques for hunting in the mountains, without the use of wings. And that’s how the Hunters Guild was founded, with her as the first headmaster. She still kept all the kids around though, and that’s where the tradition came from, that all cubs must spend their childhood at the Hunters Guild and gain basic hunting skills.