A few thoughts:
1. Just because the route comes into Heortland from Prax doesn't mean that the origin of the route was in Prax. It could be weapons smuggled from Sartar down the eastern side of the mountains, or from Esrolia by sea to the Praxian coast then overland, or even from Dagori Inkarth.
2. Bows would be both good in a seige and available in Prax.
3. Rhino armor is very expensive. You don't usually eat rhino, so you have to wait for one to be put down from disease, injury,or old age (none of which recommends the corpse as armor).
4. Big hide shields. Possibly the best quality leather armor in the world. Not because the material is better, but because that's all they make, so they got good at it.
5. Praxians have bonesmiths and hornsmiths. Many of their weapons are made of bone or horn. This is beyond what real world people would do, because RW people would use wood. Wood is expensive to transport, so is rare in Prax. Their magic lets them weld smaller pieces of bone into larger pieces to work with. So, while you might have a fragile bone arrow or a horn knife in the real world, you can manage a bone sword in Prax. (Not a bone two-handed sword, nor one that is going to stand up to repeated parrying of a good bronze sword. But good enough to fight other nomads.) There may be some limited use of bone weapons, but I'm doubtful. They aren't the greatest against any version of Lunar soldier.
6. I absolutely concur that this is the kind of brilliant idea that a PC must have come up with. Just throw in a moose hsunchen and it's perfect. (What better than to pull the cart with all the weapons than a moose, eh?)
7. Some of the weapons might not have been plain old weapons, but might have been magic of various kinds. The rock that makes the water turn green (harmlessly, but suspiciously). The charm of extinguising camp fires. Two kegs of the mud that makes you undetectable at night. (No one ever came back saying it didn't work!)
Chris Lemens
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