how would the diamonds be in your au? o: would they be just as bad as canon?
Uhhhhh 'as bad as' is hard to say!
In this (ancient) centaurworld, shamans are chosen... a little differently. What we would recognize as mythical or cryptid creatures are naturally more magical, in this ancient world, and as such are the only ones even considered for shamanhood. The most ancient of these is the Dragon Shaman.
Resplendent and white and utterly enormous, the dragontaur Shaman is millennia old. She was the first being to emerge from the primordial ooze of this world (according to her, anyway, and no one else is old enough to contest this, so..) and began to shape it to her will. At first, this nameless creature ruled over all of centaurkind as they began to evolve/form across the planet. She was worshiped and revered and feared. Her temper is legendary. Her expectation is perfection. To fall short is to become stamped into the earth beneath her powerful coils.
Eventually, she was unable to keep as close an eye on ALL the denizens of her world as she wanted, and sought out underlings. There was no place, no environment, she could not go, and she PERSONALLY investigated the few tips she was given for candidates.
Here is where the next two come in. In fairly rapid succession, the Dragon Shaman found two naturally powerful creatures with similarly long life spans to take under her wing. (metaphorically, as she does not have wings. just a bunch of legs)
She found the Thunderbird (lightning phoenix??) and the Sea Serpent, and began to teach them both powerful magic as well as how she wanted them to rule their newly designated swathes of centaurworld. Yanessa, the thunderbird-taur, was to rule the skies and all the skytaurs. Bellow, the serpent-taur, was to rule the seas and all the seataurs. For a few hundred years this was perfect.
And then there was another population boom, centralized on the landmass of centaurworld. Unsupervised, the peoples there had.. well, they do what peoples tend to do and made More People, and without the direct guidance of any shaman, their society was. Well. I"m not going to call it primitive because that's dumb. But the Dragon considered them primitive, and decided they needed ruling. But she didn't want to rule them directly herself anymore. She liked ruling by proxy and being worshiped from a distance.
And so, she needed a new shaman to rule the centaurs of the land.
This time, however, the three shamans did something.. strange. They made a new shaman. Not by conventional means, but through sheer magic and will. And thus, Perennia was created. A unicorntaur, a creature of Pure Magic, to follow in the shaman's will for her and her new subjects.
Perennia, however, would quickly find this was not what she wanted for herself.
Additional White Shaman bonus:
She does bite! Watch your.. whole body, I guess.
