/lit/ - Literature

>>7041272
>In BotNS, they're not horses. They have claws and can run at ridiculous speeds. I'm not sure what they are, but they'r enot horses.

Did you read the Appendix? He doesn't make up words. It's a great use of a gimmick* imo (*i.e., literary resource).

Also, see pic related.
>destrier
>these mounts are highly modified horses, possessing clawed feet (for better traction) and large canine teeth, sometimes referred to as “tushes,” or tusks (I, chap. 28, 242). They are capable of running at 100 miles per hour, and are at least partly herbivorous.
>History: a warhorse, a charger.