You really can find anything on the Internet , and in the case of Toril Orlesky ’s webcomicHotblood ! , that ’s a somewhat nerveless phenomenon . After all , where else are you going to the story of a centaur try his luck in the American West and his attraction to his caddish , amoral employer ?
Hotblood ! is typeset in a reality where centaurs coexist with humans , living side - by - side and fighting the same wars — including the American Civil War . James Rook is a centaur from Georgia and defend for the Confederacy . Now that the war is over , he ’s looking to set off a Modern life in Wyoming , where he ’s been sent to work as secretary for Asa Langley , a mining entrepreneur .
The 19th century of Hotblood ! has the same bias as our own 19th century , with a few extra I throw in . Langley greets Rook with anti - centaur slurs and does n’t even consider the accommodations he ’ll need to make for his four - legged employee . And he ’s not exactly a winning fellow otherwise , far more concerned in money than in human life . That ’s particularly dangerous pass that he has already have his superbia get in the way of his profit . Still , Rook find himself take out to his employer , and even jibe to Langley ’s late ill - send word scheme . If it expire awry , things could be very uncollectible for both men .
In the thick of this adventure romance , it ’s Rook who is the most compelling facial expression of Hotblood ! He ’s both our tip - of - vista character and a mystery , with a Union brand on his pelt and a past he wo n’t verbalise about . And he ’s a Centaurus with preconception of his own , making it all the more challenging that he fall for someone like Asa Langley .
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