YGWV David Dunham wrote:
> >One of my core motivations in this is my knowledge that there are no
> >cavalry, or mounted troops, native to Pamalela; and the imported ones
> >die off easily.
>
> This is clearly the case for Pamalt's domain, south of the Fense.
>
> I'm with David Cake -- it seems unlikely that the Six Legged Empire
> would be so-named if their horses kept dying off.
Quite the opposite. Such creatures had never been seen before. They created a significant and permanent impression with their weirdness and swift initial victory..
> So Hon Hoolbiktu
> must have done something to make things worse. And anything he did is
> more likely to affect only his own domain, which is Pamalt's.
Sure, he may have done something too.
> Even on the north coast, horses don't really thrive. In the majority
> of the continent, they find it hard to survive at all.
That's a fact.
> As to what Hon Hoolbiktu did, I haven't a clue either. I recall Sandy
> once saying/writing (in a con transcript?) that when a Doraddi finds
> a tuft of grass, he plucks it out (with an appropriate curse). Which
> suggests that there's still some rare grass to be found on the
> plains.
If such exists, this would been introduced grass, from seeds carried on the hooves of animals, just the same way that European grass has nearly replaced naïve American species.
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