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Sable was found as a foal by a herd who raised her as one of their own. This herd was a tribe of warriors and healers, and she learned many fundamentals while with them. However, one day the herd's lands caught on fire due to lightning strikes and most of the herd was trapped and perished by the fire. She managed to escape by happening to be on the edge of the fire and by being so quick on her feet. She thinks she is the only one to have survived, although later in her life she will discover that this is not the case, as Hototo and Hahalua are still very much alive and well.

After she escaped, she ran so long in fear that she no longer knew her location. She happened to stumble upon a meadow with a stallion residing there who helped her calm down and re-center herself. Absolutely lost with no way of finding her way back, she wasn't sure what she would do, but the stallion figured she must be a great runner if she had run so far that she was lost, and he suggested that she look around for races and other Soquili who also enjoy running. With that in mind, she set off searching for anyone and everyone who wanted to run with her, settling even for pretending to race against hare and deer, who were usually more nimble than her with their smaller bodies.

One day, while out training for a race, she stumbled upon a pile of bright red feathers on the ground. Something about these feathers reminded her suddenly of the herd that she had lost. With equal parts heartache and joy, she wove the feathers into her mane as a reminder of her past. She never takes them out.

For a long time, Sable lived mostly on her own. She was afraid that forming new relationships and bonds with other Soquili would just cause her more heartache. But the loneliness won out over the pain -- finally, with the passage of time, she established a life for herself and started learning how to reach out to others and form friendships again. However, she still lives out on her own, a bit away from other groups of Soquili, just in case she is bad luck. This proves to be a bad decision, for one evening in her own territory, a strange mare walked through and attacked her. This mare tore a tendon in Sable's hindquarters, and she barely escaped with her life. During her recovery, she was forced to live in a group again, and she discovered that it really wasn't as scary as she had convinced herself that it would be. It was, however, just as painful as she had imagined, because memories of the lost herd were frequently drug to the surface. At the end of her recovery, it was evident that she would have a permanent limp. Racing at the speed of the wind was no longer an option for her.

With the loss of racing, Sable felt a bit aimless and restless, but didn't know where to put her energy. But the fates aligned, and one day she stumbled across an abandoned basket. She searched for its parents but couldn't find them, so she took the basket home with her, named her Hikaru, and raised the filly as her own. This filly became the center of her world, and Sable is immensely proud of the stunning mare that grew up right in front of her eyes.

Aside from the discovery of Hikaru's basket, Sable has had much more bad in her life than good. Although she knows logically that it was all luck of the draw, she can be very hesitant and slow to trust new situations. Throughout her life, she will try to settle down with a handsome stallion, but it never works out the first few times. While these relationships result in offspring, they inevitably leave with their father, and she plays a minor role in their lives. However, just when she thinks she will never try again to find romance, she will finally find the one stallion who truly captures her heart and makes her believe in the goodness of the world again.

Personality-wise, Sable is sweet but sassy. She is not afraid to speak her mind more than a bit bluntly, although she will never purposely be rude about it. She also rarely loses her cool -- it's hard to ruffle her feathers.

I've been roleplaying her out of life order, but by the time lifemating happens, she will have lost her friends and adopted family to a fire, made a friend who helped her through the trauma, healed enough to reach out to others again, then been attacked and injured by a vicious mare, and come out the other side with a permanent disability (probably a limp). She knows that all the bad things that happened were just luck of the draw and accepts the past, but will find it hard to get attached to a mate. However, once she is attached, it would destroy her to lose him.