> Greg
>
>> There are not real native beasts of burden in my Pamaltela.
>
> I don't know if you're lumping the north coast in or not. In my
> Pamaltela, various pachyderms are used in Umathela and Fonrit. (I
> think though they're less commonly used than horses/high
> llamas/bisons/etc. in Genertela.)
Pachyderms are cool.
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.
> Both of which BTW grow grains which horses can eat.
YGWV.
Although upon occasion I vacillate on this point.
> Though I just
> learned that eating too much millet may result in toxic accumulations
> of alkaloids or nitrates. So the northerners can maintain horses, but
> they will need to be very careful with their diet. (Of course, these
> horses aren't native.)
I suddenly feel tempted to include the horse flu spirit :
> Oh, speaking of imports: I think Sandy pointed out that the Middle
> Sea Empire introduced mules. I don't know if these were all
> eradicated due to their God Learner association -- for some reason
> they didn't seem to show up in my Umathela game.
Interesting.
I am sue where the GL went their customs, with horses and mules and
certainly burros too, followed.
And they all died out in Pamaltela.
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