Medieval Horse Types and Traits

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen

You're not telling me that every time a player in your campaign creates a Very Wealthy character, and buys himself a totally pimped horse during character creation, you'll insist relentlessly that the character has to be a knight.

Eh, no. Not in my vaguely Medievalish world, no.

In historicaly Europe, though?

What do you call wealthy men whose function in warfare was determined by their ability to field an expensive horse?