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On the house

A quick sketch of something @news14-arts embedded in my brain (you know what you did), so I had to draw it to relieve the pressure. I know I suck at drawing animals, even with a ref, so this is as good as it's going to get. I feel like Caractacus (the horsie) should be bigger, but I always call him a charger and even though I describe him as big in my fics, historically, chargers weren't very big. They tended to be smaller than destriers. Believe it or not, huge clydesdale-like horses don't make for good war horses. You want something agile that can run long distances. In Fates, Gunther's horse (and all the great knight's horses) look like they were bred for jousting (as seen by the luna animation). Accelerating quickly is great, but a horse that huge, especially in solid plate barding, would just be a giant target on a battlefield. Chargers were hearty animals that could go long distances without tiring. They were also cheap, which is the real reason Gunther has one (only the very rich could afford destriers- they were the Rolls-Royces of horses). If anything's going to keep up with a rottweiler, it's an endurance horse.