Here in Eastbridge the last horses can be bought. They are few indeed for they have died far too often to breed. Each month at the square in the middle of town a warhorse auction is held and men come from Thring and beyond to see the strange beasts. Perhaps one can see Telamar, the steed of Ulthar himself, or Alarion, the famed mount of the Knight of Constant Sorrow. These horses have served their masters to the death time and time again and after they die their bones are cleaned and placed within a bag fashioned from the dead horse’s skin and out trots a young colt that needs no breaking to hold a saddle. Over the years many of the horses have been lost one by one and knights still quest for the bones and hide of Garendar beyond the World’s Edge (50.03). And woe to any man who buys a horse that the knights of Thring judge to be unworthy of for no matter how rich he will surely die.
Connections:
- It appears that horses are not the only things that can be revived in this way - there are also the sack children.
Hooks:
- Why does this reincarnation work?
- What effects does living over and over have on horses besides making them infertile?
- Let us now speak of famous horses!
- Why do all the horses have “ar” in their names?
- Why didn’t these horses go off in exile to the Golden Realm?
- Who got killed for trying to buy a horse?