>Yurts and their contents themselves cannot be easily tossed onto a horse
>and ridden away.
>
Yes they can
>Perhaps you ought to look at Praxian Housing on p12 of the Players
>Book: Genertela where it makes the distinction between house tents
>(everything is unpacked for stays of more than a week in one area)
>and travel tents (smaller, less comfortable, defensible etc).
So what?
>The
>Pentans will have similar living arrangements and thus to suggest
>the Pentans can toss everything and ride away at all times is just
>plain silly.
>
If the Pentans live in Yurts - which has a real meaning - then they DO NOT live in similar conditions to the Praxians. Yurts are specifically designed to be quickly moved. In the real world a yurt and it contents can be packed and ready to move in well under an hour. If this is not true of your Pentans, they do not live in Yurts - find another word.
>You have obviously forgotten that these mustangs were descended from
>Spanish horses that had been bred to take a rider for something like
>two thousand years. The CharUn horses are not in the same position
>as they are bred for things meat food, milk, draft and carriage.
>Under such circumstances, you will tend to get a diversification of
>specialized types just like you do for _cattle_.
Specialisation is a relatively modern concept - it was not found amongst the various steppe nomads in the real world, who could happily ride and bleed the same horses. The only horses that were not suitable for riding were used for meat, not kept with the herd.
At the end of the day, Peter seems to want his CharUn not to be Mongolian style steppe nomads, but something more akin to some of the American Native cultures. Fair enough. Mine will continue to live in Yurts, though.
Graham
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