Horse Pets

The horse-kind are the steeds, and a keeper speaks of them differently from other pets, for one day he means to sit on them. The pony and the warhorse are what they seem. The rest are stranger: the hippogryph, which has a beak and flies; the hippocampus, which is a horse of the sea and can raise a whirlpool; and the pegasus, which brings the lightning down.

Rarest and greatest is the roc, which is a bird. The keepers know this. But it is as large as anything that hatches, and it makes a wind like a hurricane, and they could think of no other stable to put it in.

Details

• Commonest to rarest, with their young: Pony (colt), Warhorse (robust colt), Hippogryph (hippogryph colt), Hippocampus (hippocampus colt), Pegasus (pegasus colt), Roc (fledgling roc).
• Their eggs are maned and brown. They are found in treasure, and the rarer ones are seldom seen in the treasure of low levels.
• None is born saddled. Taught with a saddle (Lillobee sells them), one can be ridden once it has grown to its rider's size.
• The roc can learn no magical trick at all.
• The plain horse is one of the hoofed pets.