



While the Southern Warrior Empire did make use of chariots over it's short reign, a new type of cavalry inspired by the pastorals of the southern frontier of Stolleth riding. A single Stolleth was easier to take care of than a chariot with it's team and so those herders and recreational riders who knew how to ride them soon took to using their skills in service of the Kingdom and the armies, first as messengers relaying orders, then as scouts and finally as harassment units and raiders. They often carried lightweight slings to pelt enemy formations at a distance and eventually took to carrying a type of sword that was basically a modified sickle for defense and to cut down fleeing enemies. Even so the general response of these fellows in battle was to run away.





As these fellows became more common, a new cavalry class gradually took shape. Their families would come to own plots of land three to five times as large as that worked by a usual farmer and would have a small staff of slaves to man it. The grain grown would be used to feed Stolleths, which they would raise to serve and they would train their children in ridership. As time went by their performance improved as their collective skills were honed and their mounts got larger. Even so they would still be reckoned as rather ineffective by future generations of cavalry and were still considered by the Warrior Kingdom to be simply a specialist type of Levy to the end.

