[Glorantha] Cataphracts

> John Machin
> I thought some Western knights had pretty sophisticated plate armour?
> In your Glorantha do they have mail-and-plate instead?

Cataphracts are the most "knightly" things that fit in my vision of Glorantha. Cavalry, for the most part is men on horses with spears, shields and some armour. Think Persians vs Greeks for the technology era.

I hate the RPG clishe of having everyting from stone age to late renaissance all mixed together, so I'm keeping my Glorantha tied to the late bronze age / early iron age boundary.

There are exceptions, like some mostali having steam tech and gunpowder, but that is "magic" for the rest of the world.

> I sort of like the idea of armoured Humakti cavalry with great big
> honking Sword Runes. I'm quite happy to attribute their presence to
> divine inspiration rather than to a century or two of sword
> development. :)

In my Gloranth, a sword means usually a shortsword, a sicle sword or parhaps something like a kopesh. Enchanted metals make it possible to create big cutting swords (the basic RPG "broadsword").

There are no longswords (bastard sword) or greatswords, since those came about as a response to Plate&Chain, and require very advanced forms of steel.

	-Adept : who loves the look of the Lunar cavalry in the HQ book
	 illustration (with meteors striking a city in the background).