The idea
I started playing Celtic Heroes at the age of 9 back in 2012. Upon reaching the other world swamp the idea of the kelpi mob always intrigued me. I would say the main thing that grabbed my attention was its correlation with real-world mythos along with its villainous appearance. Upon hearing that battle mounts were coming to the game I assumed the iconic kelpi would make its way as one of the mythical beasts that a player could ride. But Upon release, I was confronted with the bland mounts that draw no significant inspiration from any Celtic mythos or from any in-game stories. So in order to fix this, I bring to you the idea of making a kelpi a ridable mount, tho it would traditionally make sense for his mount to be Halloween based I decided to present it as a Christmas mount to break the norms and potentially provide story building to the world and how groups interact with the mythical world.
Designing
I as an individual am not very talented with art so I chose to use a photo editor to create The Yule Bound Kelpie. I changed the color of the kelpi to be a brighter blue to make it appear more winter-themed and to reduce the intimidation factor of the mob given it's supposed to be friendly. I added a Santa hat to cover up the horns to make it appear more friendly and festive. Thats all the real visual changes i made to the kelpi other then adding a saddle to it. I wanted to add some bells on the side of the barding and to make the tail and horns of the kelpi candy cane colored to help better fit the yule spirit but alas that is above my capabilities with my primitive photoshop clone. This primitive nature of the design would make it easy to implement into the game tho as the mane model is already in the game all that would need to be done is to change the color and add decorative pieces such as bells to the barding for this model.
Ballance
I wanted to keep the balance of the game intact while macking this mob so I based its states on the preexisting premium mount. Tho I didn't want it to be a complete cone of the hellstead so I changed up the elemental damage of the skill to be ice and changed the stats to reflect that of a normal horse by giving it strength and dexterity while scaling the numbers to be in line with the state total of the hellstead. Tho I believe to help differentiate this mount from the other horses some physical dmg could be added to its base states but I did not add it while creating this mount because I did not want to create a mob that could potentially be detrimental to the metta like the other physical pet. Regarding Movement speed it is the same as that of the hellstead, and the same goes with the skill dmg.
Stats
Tamed Yule Bound Kelpi
Movement Speed:22%
Strength:20
Dexterity:20
Physical Attack Evasion:60
Spell Attack Evasion:60
Movement Attack Evasion:60
Wounding Attack Evasion:60
Weakening Attack Evasion:60
Trained Yule Bound Kelpi
Movement Speed:32%
Strength:40
Dexterity:40
Physical Attack Evasion:120
Spell Attack Evasion:120
Movement Attack Evasion:120
Wounding Attack Evasion:120
Weakening Attack Evasion:120
Level Requirement:40
Hardened Yule Bound Kelpi
Movement Speed:52%
Strength:80
Dexterity:80
Physical Attack Evasion:240
Spell Attack Evasion:240
Movement Attack Evasion:240
Wounding Attack Evasion:240
Weakening Attack Evasion:240
Level Requirement:80
Relentless Yule Bound Kelpi
Movement Speed:72%
Strength:120
Dexterity:120
Physical Attack Evasion:360
Spell Attack Evasion:360
Movement Attack Evasion:360
Wounding Attack Evasion:360
Weakening Attack Evasion:360
Level Requirement:120
Ferocious Yule Bound Kelpi
Movement Speed:92%
Strength:160
Dexterity:160
Physical Attack Evasion:540
Spell Attack Evasion:540
Movement Attack Evasion:540
Wounding Attack Evasion:540
Weakening Attack Evasion:540
Level Requirement:160
Primal Yule Bound Kelpi
Movement Speed:112%
Strength:200
Dexterity:200
Physical Attack Evasion:720
Spell Attack Evasion:720
Movement Attack Evasion:720
Wounding Attack Evasion:720
Weakening Attack Evasion:720
Level Requirement:200
Name:Fishomatic
Class:Ranger
Leavel:222
Server:Gwydion
*Sharpens Dagger* 
