I made the suggestion to alcinda of a dark pelt with a black jaguar type look, but lace markings on a horse instead of jaguar spots, and then a knight chess piece mask.
This is the concept I doodled. It's rough, and could use some more detail, but its difficult for me to create a stylized mask like I wanted. P: It's p much what I am imagining though!
I wanted to make a separate post for thoughts on it!