IronSoul: Zodiac of The Horse

Welcome to a new entry in the Neo Bestiary!

This record documents a newly observed species from the wasteland era.

This model is designed as a dual-color print, optimized for multi-material FDM printing. If you choose to use water-soluble supports (PVA), please make sure the material is properly dried before printing, and ideally kept dry throughout the print process for best results.

Field fragments and recovered records from the wasteland refer to this entity as the “IornSoul.”

It is said to appear only once every twelve years, often during the period corresponding to what ancient civilizations called the “Chinese New Year.”
No confirmed origin has ever been established. Some believe it is a failed war machine that learned to “grow,” while others argue it is a biological echo shaped by long-dead rituals and collective memory.

Sightings describe it as extremely fast and nearly impossible to hunt or track, often vanishing long before any coordinated pursuit can close in. Very few individuals claim to have seen it clearly, and even fewer have survived close encounters.

A recurring and unsettling belief exists among scholars:
those who attempt to kill or capture it are often followed by unexplained misfortune or large-scale disaster events shortly after. Because of this, many treat it not as a target, but as a phenomenon that should not be interfered with.

Despite the lack of evidence, another interpretation persists: those who do witness it are often left with a sense of unusual “alignment” or fortune, leading some to believe its appearance is not a warning — but a sign.

Whether this is myth, misinterpretation, or a surviving protocol no longer understood, remains unknown.

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