Updated with new information!
Please re-read this if you haven't in a while, if you own a bacabello, or are thinking about making one.

I know it's a lot of text, but hopefully it's not TOO boring.





Pureblood bacabellos are shaped like Lusitanos or Andalusians. Due to interbreeding with regular horses, though, any size and shape of bacabello is possible.

Pureblood bacabello manes should stick up away from their necks. Longer manes are possible, but less bacabello-y, and are more common in horses with mixed lineage.

Bacabellos mate for life. Very rarely does anything but death or distance separate a mated pair.

Bacabellos typically live either alone with their mate or in small family units, no more than four or five animals. They DO sometimes live in the herds of regular horses, though, particularly when they have taken a regular horse as their partner.

Upon reaching adulthood, most bacabellos leave their parents to go off and start their own family unit. Just as they are drawn to shiny, sparkly things, bacabellos also have an inherent taste for wanderlust.

An average bacabello will live somewhere between 100-200 years.

Immortal bacabellos live for an unforeseen length of time, but they may still be killed by sickness or injury.

Healing bacabellos are not immortal. They can cure any injury, but they cannot stop the aging process.

The base coat can be any color that exists in nature, even appaloosas and pintos and roans and grullos, etc.

Bacabellos can have any color eyes.


The markings are only ONE of the ten colors.

The markings have a distinct sheen and glow faintly in the dark.

The markings can be anywhere on the horse.

Any color marking can go on any color base coat.

Markings GENERALLY DO NOT extend into the mane. However, it has happened, and is considered highly unusual.

The Rarest Colors, Lace and Onyx, are VERY rare. If you decide to make a lace or onyx horse, keep in mind that it MUST be a reclusive character. They don't often take mates and it is in their nature to be strange and remote because of their markings--they alone are the same color as the Two Brothers from their creation myth, Mulac and Ix.

Also keep in mind that the only way to get a Lace or Onyx foal is for BOTH its parents to be Lace or Onyx. Or for a Lace/Onyx bacabello to breed with a regular horse.

Just to make sure no one gets confused, the gradients below the color names on the breed sheet are a basic range of hues which fall under that category. So below "Moss" are all the shades of green that would be considered "Moss."

Bacabello markings ONLY come in those ten colors, but each color has loads of possibilities.


Patterns within the markings are normally geometric shapes (circles, diamonds, rectangles, triangles, etc) of varying sizes.

Non-geometric shapes are possible, but rare.

Every bacabello's markings are unique, but many have the so called "classic" markings like those on the breed sheet: color across shoulders with simple geometric pattern, color on nose, color on all four legs (including hooves).

Patterns within the markings are always the color of the base coat beneath. Think of the patterns as "cut outs" in the markings.


Tattoos are always black. If a tattoo is on a black horse, it will simply be either invisible or hard to see.

Tattoos are not pictures or words, they are either meaningless marks/designs, or possibly symbols. Interesting site for ideas: [link]

Tattoos are on the base coat, NOT the markings. If a tattoo happens to be placed by or under the markings, it will either not be visible, or will be partially visible.

Not all bacabellos have tattoos, but those that do have them DON'T display them until adolescence. It's a mark of adulthood to "show signs," as they call it.

There's a social stigma amongst the bacabellos between those that are "Signed" in this way and those that are "Unsigned."

Most bacabellos believe the tattoos are drawn by the Creator of All Things, Hun Hunabhu himself, and some of the Signed wear their tattoos with a pride they don't deserve, and treat the Unsigned like inferiors.


No bacabello can resist the shininess of pretty stones and they are all quite easily distracted by these things, even though some of them pretend not to be.

Any precious stone or gemstone will do.

Not all bacabellos wear jewelry, but those that do may wear it in any conceivable way.

It is just as common among males as among females.

Some bacabellos believe their stones increase their magical abilities, but this is more an issue of confidence than real enhancement.


Not all bacabellos are born with magic abilities.

The most common abilities are immortality and telekinesis, though all conceivable powers are possible.

A bacabello will rarely have more than one or two abilities, and when multiple abilities are present, there's always one that is central and stronger than the others.

Bacabellos exhibit their magical peculiarities from an early age, but the strength of them increases with time.

Also similar to their tattoos, there is a certain stigma against bacabellos without these powers. An Unsigned (tattoo-less) bacabello WITH magical abilities is higher on the social ladder than an Unsigned bacabello withOUT magical abilities.


A bacabello breeding with a regular horse will always produce a bacabello.

In general, to be "pureblood" a bacabello needs only have both its parents be bacabellos. To be "true pureblood" (as some call it) the bacabello needs to have at least four generations of pureblood bacabello lineage, and needs to be shaped like a classic bacabello with an upright mane.

The Common Colors (Cobalt, Rouge, and Moss) are the most dominant, hence being common.
The Less-Common Colors (Rust and Iris) are next in dominance,
followed by the Rare Colors (Blush, Slate, and Aurel)
and then finally the Rarest Colors (Lace and Onyx).

So if you had bred a Common Colored horse to a Rare Colored horse, the offspring would always be Common Colored. If you bred a Less-Common Colored horse to a Rare Colored Horse, the offspring would always be Less-Common Colored.

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Here are waaaay too many examples of
Parent + Parent = Offspring,
but I want this to make sense:


Common + Common = Common
Common + Less-Common = Common
Common + Rare = Common
Common + Rarest = Common
Common + Regular Horse = Common

Less-Common + Common = Common
Less-Common + Less-Common = Less-Common
Less-Common + Rare = Less-Common
Less-Common + Rarest = Less-Common
Less-Common + Regular Horse = Less-Common

Rare + Common = Common
Rare + Less-Common = Less-Common
Rare + Rare = Rare
Rare + Rarest = Rare
Rare + Regular Horse = Rare

Rarest + Common = Common
Rarest + Less-Common = Less-Common
Rarest + Rare = Rare
Rarest + Rarest = Rarest
Rarest + Regular Horse = Rarest

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A Common Colored horse will be a carrier for all three Common Colors. The same would go for a Less-Common Colored horse, a Rare Colored horse, and a Rarest Colored horse.

So what this means is that a Cobalt horse would be capable of producing foals that were Cobalt OR Rouge OR Moss colored.

Again, Bacabellos can and do interbreed with regular horses, but the offspring will always LOOK like a bacabello and have markings of whatever color their bacabello parent passed on to them.



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If you make your own Bacabello, please let me know! I'd love to see them, and if you don't mind I'll add your character(s) to the list for all to see!

Oh and also, if you make one, I only ask that you give credit to me for the breed. The character is yours and yours alone.



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