Paxton

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  A product of a chance mating between a Ceffyl Dŵr and an ordinary human -a woman who would mysteriously 'vanish' not long after the birth of this bastard child - Paxton lived for over a century in and around The Wirral. Most of his life was spent in the bustling port city of Liverpool, which he would embrace as he threw himself into the rapidly changing culture around him. Born with all of the perks and powers of the Ceffyl Dŵr that birthed him, Paxton led many an unassuming traveler to a watery grave. Just kidding! Paxton was never that sort of 'waterhorse'. Like the legend read, Pax much preferred to use his powers to pull pranks on the dock-workers, all in good fun and never malicious.
  
  Somewhere along the line he met Adney Hack, a young Londoner who he would quickly befriend and later reconnect with in the city of New Versailles. Little does Adney know what he has gotten himself into befriending a scallywag of a waterhorse.
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  O F M Y T H
  The Ceffyl Dŵr is a water horse in Welsh folklore, similar to the Kelpie in Scotland. The Ceffyl Dŵr can shape shift, speak through minds, and even fly, though this varies depending on where you are in Wales. For example in North Wales he is represented as being rather formidable with fiery eyes and a dark forbidding presence whilst in South Wales it appears he is seen in a more positive light, at worst a cheeky pest and, to travellers, a luminous, fascinating and sometimes a winged steed. The Ceffyl Dŵr is said to inhabit mountain pools and waterfalls. Even though it appears solid, it is seen to evaporate into the mist.
  
  In one form of the legend the Ceffyl Dŵr, as a horse, leaps out of the water to trample and kill lone travellers. Another form of the legend reports that the Ceffyl Dŵr entices the unwary traveller to ride him. He can also appear as a handsome young man, or as a long-horned goat. The waterhorse sometimes allows himself to be caught and mounted, but he is full of pranks and delights in tossing his rider to the ground.
  

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  - "Default" form is that of a Welsh Cob/Mountain Welsh Pony.
  Unique to its kind, the Ceffyl Dŵr radiates an otherworldly and ethereal 'glow'.
  
  - Can dissolve into 'insubstantial mist', reappearing as either 'form' as he so chooses.
  
  - In equine form, can fly, by 'growing' a pair of smoky wings. Paxton can 'remove' these wings at will.
  
  - Can "speak" through a person's mind, with or without their permission.
  
  - Can also turn into aWelsh MountainGoat.
  
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