Emblem Warhorse

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See Emblem Warhorse (bar) for the establishment of the same name.

Emblem Warhorse is a player in the Shadows for the Seattle Garages, and has been with the team since the Season 19 Elections.

Official League Records

Warhorse joined the ILB as a lineup player in the Shadows for the Seattle Garages as the Garages' Season 11 Playoff Birth.

During the Season 19 elections, Warhorse joined the Garages' active roster in exchange for Brisket Friendo as a result of the Garages' Foreshadow will.

On Season 21, Day 79, Warhorse retreated to the Shadows in exchange for Oliver Loofah at The Hotdogfingers Memorial Climate Pledge Garage and Parking Facility via the Ratified Voicemail.

COMMUNITY REPORTS
The remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.

Background

Emblem Warhorse describes many things: a bar, a band, a Blaseball player, but most importantly, a community. The Emblem Warhorse is a dive bar in Seattle, and Emblem Warhorse is a collective of people who have at some point in their life found refuge within its walls, becoming Patrons of The Emblem Warhorse. Patrons can be found doing a variety of activities, including (but certainly not limited to) celebrating after a minor league blaseball game, chatting with fellow motorcycle gang members, performing in the group's band (titled Emblem Warhorse), performing at the bar's drag shows under the moniker Emblem Warhorse, or simply enjoying the atmosphere of the bar. A watchful reader may have noticed that some of these activities involve being named Emblem Warhorse; this stems from the bar’s motto: “If you’re here, you’re Emblem Warhorse.” Upon entering the bar, one's name becomes Emblem Warhorse for the duration of one's stay. All are Emblem Warhorse. All is Emblem Warhorse.

Warhorses who frequent the bar often note having never seen the bar before finding it, despite it being located across the street from the Queen Anne Dicks Drive In. Some speculate the bar is only visible when one is truly prepared to find it. The exception to this rule is when the bar hosts events, though visitors who are not meant to become a Patron often find themselves shooed out the door by The Emblem Warhorse itself. Visitors have reported experiencing this phenomenon differently, some finding chairs feeling more uncomfortable, others noticing the water tasting off or the music being just a little too loud. Some have taken to challenging The Emblem Warhorse, ready to prove themselves worthy candidates of the Emblem Warhorse name. It is unclear at this point if any such challenges have been successful.

After the name Emblem Warhorse appeared on the Seattle Garages active roster, at least one Warhorse has been chosen to play in each Garages game. How a Warhorse is chosen for play on a given day is unclear, as Patrons have given conflicting reports. It is possible that there is no clear way of deciding play, or that it changes from day to day. Some cite a competitive game of dlarts, others claim they simply feel the compulsion to pick up the bat and head out the doors.

Qualifications of becoming an Emblem Warhorse

Of the players who take up the moniker Emblem Warhorse, only two things are consistent:

  • They have at one point in time been considered a regular at The Emblem Warhorse, and have been deemed worthy.
  • They are required to wear the Emblem, a design featuring an upside-down chess knight, somewhere on their person.

The bar has a strict no quadruped policy, though there have been known instances of quadruped Emblem Warhorses managing to get around this rule.


Patrons of the Emblem Warhorse

Many people and beings have come to take up the moniker of Emblem Warhorse throughout time, as deemed worthy by The Emblem Warhorse bar. Below is one such Warhorse.

This time, the Interdimensional Rumor Mill reveals a Patron Rumor from IF-22.183 out of its Patron Rumor Registry...

Faun

Emblem “Faun” Warhorse is a seer - or at least, that’s what other people will tell you about her.

She’ll tell you that she’s a florist, one that works out of a small flower shop in Issaquah. Customers that walk into her shop often find that the serious, mid-thirties woman knows exactly what flowers they’re going to buy or what questions they’re going to ask well before they speak a word. When asked how she knows all of this ahead of time, Faun will respond with “I just know.”

This foreknowledge extends beyond flowers - Faun has been known to warn and advise customers and other Patrons of the Emblem Warhorse about a number of things in their lives, from small things like traffic to larger, more personal issues. However, it’s not perfect, and she rarely knows things about her own life ahead of time if they don’t involve another person. She did not know, for example, about the accident that would cost her the loss of her left leg, for which she now uses a prosthesis.

Faun found the Emblem Warhorse near the end of a day spent in Seattle, and took a liking to the place as it was “the only bar where they didn’t look at you funny for ordering a gin and absinthe cocktail.” After a number of visits, she became a true Patron when, upon entering the bar one day, took a sharp turn and headed into the kitchen in time to help prevent an oil fire from breaking out. As a welcome gift, the other Patrons provided her with a prosthetic leg with the bar's emblem engraved into it. She wears it when it’s her turn to play.

Faun has a dry sense of humor, which, combined with her serious demeanor and foreknowledge, can make her difficult to approach. However, she’s amiable towards the other Patrons, and goes out of her way to let them know about any pressing information she might have for them.

When at bat, Faun will often swing for contact on the first pitch of a Plate Appearance - more often for groundouts and flyouts than anything else, because, as she has put it “knowing where the ball is going to be doesn’t matter as much when you don’t know how to swing the bat correctly.”

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