Graceheart the Leopard
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Centuries ago, the steppes of Mongolia were ruled by horse-rearing tribes who wandered across the plains. Then, Genghis Khan unified them and embarked on a campaign of world domination. Although he failed in this goal, his descendants would later become the ancestors of the Mughals, and the Mongols returned to becoming humble nomads.
Those days did not exist anymore.
Firuz Gulzar looked out over his chariot down at the Himalayan Mountains beneath him as he thought about this. Mongolia had changed. Only three years ago, the normal order of nature had existed, and man was the master of the beasts of the earth. However, a year before his father had died, news had come in of the appearance of a race of strange talking horses in Mongolia. Horses? No, they were too small to be horses: Ponies was a better term for them.
These Ponies, as he had learned, were not ordinary ponies who had somehow gained the ability to speak, but were a strange race apart, with strange hair colours and had special marks on their flanks indicating their own personal dharma (to borrow the closest concept from the pagans). Diplomats who had been dispatched to Mongolia even reported the existence of unicorns who practiced magic (or witchcraft?) and winged ponies who could walk on clouds. Looking at the pegasi (as the winged creatures were called), he also noticed that their heads also were distorted in comparison to an actual horse, presumably in order to fit a brain the size of a man's.
Although many Muslim zealots had advocated a war against these Ponies, calling them abominations, Firuz believed they could make valuable allies in times of war. Thus, he was on their way to Ikh Khüree to see their leader, who apparently combined the features of both Unicorns and Pegasi. This was a strange world, and perhaps the Almighty had somehow gained a strange sense of humour...
The Mughal Empire proposes an alliance with the Pony Horde.
Those days did not exist anymore.
Firuz Gulzar looked out over his chariot down at the Himalayan Mountains beneath him as he thought about this. Mongolia had changed. Only three years ago, the normal order of nature had existed, and man was the master of the beasts of the earth. However, a year before his father had died, news had come in of the appearance of a race of strange talking horses in Mongolia. Horses? No, they were too small to be horses: Ponies was a better term for them.
These Ponies, as he had learned, were not ordinary ponies who had somehow gained the ability to speak, but were a strange race apart, with strange hair colours and had special marks on their flanks indicating their own personal dharma (to borrow the closest concept from the pagans). Diplomats who had been dispatched to Mongolia even reported the existence of unicorns who practiced magic (or witchcraft?) and winged ponies who could walk on clouds. Looking at the pegasi (as the winged creatures were called), he also noticed that their heads also were distorted in comparison to an actual horse, presumably in order to fit a brain the size of a man's.
Although many Muslim zealots had advocated a war against these Ponies, calling them abominations, Firuz believed they could make valuable allies in times of war. Thus, he was on their way to Ikh Khüree to see their leader, who apparently combined the features of both Unicorns and Pegasi. This was a strange world, and perhaps the Almighty had somehow gained a strange sense of humour...
The Mughal Empire proposes an alliance with the Pony Horde.
