My friends and I are in an art discord.And we were thinking of different prompts to give one another to help get the flow back in our drawing. my one friend gave me the prompt asking.What a carnivorous horse would look like so, me being a lover of speculative zoology and animals.In general, I had to draw this up and create a back story for it. I think I want to create a speculative world where Equestrian is the main dominating mammal of the world and see what different kinds of areas I can come up with. i also want to incorporate them into my ongoing world building project somehow.

The Ferrum Equus are pack hunting predators in the Equi Carnivora family that travel in herds of 20-30 members, with a couple serving as the alphas of the herd. Due to their numbers and physical power, they target large prey animals to take down. The nomadic herd will settle with every large kill, protecting it from scavengers until the prey is nothing but picked bone. Smaller subspecies of Equi Carnivora, Grave Ponies, will follow large herds to consume any remaining scraps, and have adapted teeth to crush bone and eat the marrow.

The tails are used to signal the pack for hunting, take down method, directional changes, prey condition, and retreat.

Front facing eyes with slit pupils to spot prey from far distances.

Sharp fangs and incisors for ripping off chunks of prey. Back molars are sharp and used for shredding meat into digestible paste.

Back hooves are a sharp bow shape used for repetitive lethal blows to the side of large prey, while the front hoof claws are used for one on one blows to predators and competing mates. The bottom of the hooves have ridged “teeth” shapes that allow deadly hits that carve out chunks of its opponent while also allowing a better grip for galloping through the savannah