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<blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5334493" data-attributes="member: 59506">Perhaps I didn't word that as well as I should have.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/blush.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blush:" title="Blush&nbsp; &nbsp; :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" />&nbsp;I don't mean to say that Warhorses were wild animals.&nbsp; I simply mean that in aggresiveness, Warhorses were closer to Wild Horses than more domesticated horses.&nbsp; Horses with heightened natural aggression, along with other qualities (speed, strength, ability to be trained, etc.), were bred in order to retain and enhance the natural aggressiveness of Wild Horses.&nbsp; I agree with you 100% that they were not wild animals.&nbsp; One could probably say with some accuracy, that Warhorses were something set apart from both Wild Horses and other domesticated horses (not another breed, as Warhorses weren't necessarily breed dependent, but definitely a different directed evolutionary path).&nbsp; I'm also speaking to true Warhorses, as opposed to just a horse trained to carry a rider in battle.&nbsp; One has simply been trained to follow specialized direction amidst the chaos of battle, the other is itself a naturally bred weapon that has also been trained to follow specialized direction.&nbsp;I would think that unless the horse knew the prospective thief, and was used to them handling it (such as a squire), stealing a Warhorse would be a very dangerous proposition.&nbsp; One probably just as likely to end with either the thief or the horse (or both) severely injured (or worse).&nbsp;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="El Mahdi, post: 5334493, member: 59506"] Perhaps I didn't word that as well as I should have.:blush: I don't mean to say that Warhorses were wild animals. I simply mean that in aggresiveness, Warhorses were closer to Wild Horses than more domesticated horses. Horses with heightened natural aggression, along with other qualities (speed, strength, ability to be trained, etc.), were bred in order to retain and enhance the natural aggressiveness of Wild Horses. I agree with you 100% that they were not wild animals. One could probably say with some accuracy, that Warhorses were something set apart from both Wild Horses and other domesticated horses (not another breed, as Warhorses weren't necessarily breed dependent, but definitely a different directed evolutionary path). I'm also speaking to true Warhorses, as opposed to just a horse trained to carry a rider in battle. One has simply been trained to follow specialized direction amidst the chaos of battle, the other is itself a naturally bred weapon that has also been trained to follow specialized direction. I would think that unless the horse knew the prospective thief, and was used to them handling it (such as a squire), stealing a Warhorse would be a very dangerous proposition. One probably just as likely to end with either the thief or the horse (or both) severely injured (or worse). :) [/QUOTE]

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