Oh, come on, Sandy. While I definitely agree that the winners were uplifted by the process, I believe that the losers lost about the same amount.
The beast people of Genert's Garden seem to have been a people of bestial, but aware, followers of the Storm Bull. Look at the archetype "drunk Storm Bull cum awakened mount" couple to get the idea how they lived back then.
They were not necessarily riders. I know there is a large mural somewhere east of the Zola Fel which shows all the existing and quite a lot of extinct beasts of Eiritha, and it might say something about whether the friendly pairings of man and beast act as riders. Since Tada called the beast riders to aid him against chaos (which they failed to do in time), it appears they were riders, but I'd like a confirmation. (Anyone remember my (refuted) thesis that Praxians were just Hsunchen riding their totemic animals, having lost some Hsunchen special spells when they started eating each other? It was on Henk's Daily early in '93, if I recall correctly...)
End of Glorantha Digest V2 #602
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