Mounts
Some guilds can use a mount to improve their combat prowess and to make overland travel faster and safer.
- Squires, Cavaliers, Knights and Beastmasters must tame a mount or purchase a mount that someone else has tamed.
- Tzarakk - can summon a steed of tzarakk or a chaos mount that gains power and size as it is fed souls.
- The School of Folklorists - can summon a magical mount via the magic mount and greater magic mount spells.
- Animists - can conjure an animal soul to be their mount via the conjure animal soul spell. The animal soul needs to be captured before by totem challenge skill. For animist mounts, only the section "Skill Bonuses" below is relevant.
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Mount Types
Basically any generic outerworld creature can be tamed, but not nearly all of them are that useful. Some of the most popular mounts include:
- Griffons - can fly
- Solar Griffons
- Chimeras - balk at water
- Chaos Drakes
- Fire Drakes
- Ice Drakes
Mounts can also have age adjectives, e.g. Adult, Ancient.
Beastmaster mounts
| Chimeras | Fly | Indoors | Water | Eats |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| a baby chimera, natural born killer | no | yes | no? | carnivore |
| an adult chimera, with a fiery red lion's mane | no | yes | no? | carnivore |
| a three-headed chimera, true abomination | no | yes | no? | carnivore |
| an elder chimera, with a fiery golden lion's mane | no | yes | no | carnivore |
| a daunting ancient three-headed chimera, hunting here | no | yes | no | carnivore |
| Fire drakes | ||||
| a slender, red-hued drake | yes | yes | yes | omnivore |
| a large red drake with burning eyes and fierce appearance | yes | no | yes | omnivore |
| an age-old but very powerful red drake | yes | no | yes | omnivore |
| Ice drakes | ||||
| a lean, white-scaled drake | yes | yes | yes | omnivore |
| an agile, snow-white drake with a freezing gaze | yes | no | yes | omnivore |
| a very old but mighty ice drake | yes | no | yes | omnivore |
| Chaos drakes | ||||
| a slender drake encircled by tall shadows | yes | yes | yes | omnivore |
| a deadly black drake is clad in shadows | yes | no | yes | omnivore |
| an ancient chaos drake, light's demise | yes | no | yes | omnivore |
| Griffons | ||||
| a ferocious griffon is hunting | yes | yes | yes | carnivore |
| a jet-black griffon | yes | yes | yes | carnivore |
| a majestic golden griffon, proud and noble aka solar flare griffon | yes | no | yes | carnivore |
| a mighty grey gryphon, covered in hoar frost | yes | no | yes | carnivore |
| Others | ||||
| a RARE and HUGE giant crab | no | no | yes | omnivore |
| a HUGE and deadly scorpion dreadnaut | no | yes | no | herbivore |
| a HUGE and DANGEROUS baboon with bright red butt staring at you | no | no | ? | herbivore |
| A large yellow leopard with black dots | no | no | no | carnivore |
| an ENORMOUS mountain of mud with EVIL, gleaming eyes | no | no | yes | herbivore |
| a ferocious and blood-thirsty giant vampire bat | yes | yes | yes | carnivore |
| a giant bat, the silent hunter of the night | yes | yes | yes | carnivore |
| Name | Fly | Indoors | Water | Eats |
Skill Bonuses
Mounts grant a size bonus and a bonus to Attack, Dodge, Parry and Throw weight. The amount of bonus depends on the type of mount and the percentage of your Combat riding skill. Additionally, Tzarakk mounts may give a bonus to Polearms skill as well.
Mount Equipment
- A bridle or tether is necessary for leading a mount.
- A saddle is optional
- Saddlebags let you carry your loot.
Some gear that mount users might want includes:
Mount gear made for a mount of one size or type can be resized and adjusted to fit a new mount via the Refit mount gear skill. Ask your friendly merchant or beastmaster for help with that.
Riding Underground
Beastmasters get the ride underground skill that allows them to, unsurprisingly, ride underground. Actually ride underground allows larger mounts that can't normally ride underground to go there. Smaller griffons and chimeras can go underground.
Stables
Mounts can be stored at stables.
Taming Mounts
Nearly all outworld creatures can be tamed and lead around. Many of them can also be ridden. You can't tame area creatures except for a few carefully chosen exceptions. Only Beastmasters get an appreciable amount of the Tame mount skill.
Gear that helps with taming mounts can be found.
Breedable mounts
Those of you who are beastmasters might want to get a male and a female
cougar, or chaos drake, and put them in the same stable for a while. Mature
adults required, high resistances nice but not mandatory.
-Shinarae, 19.06.2012
Cougars, chaos/fire/ice drakes, squids, sheeps, cattle, rhinos, polar bears and elephants.
List of mounts
"Look at tether," the simple rope tether one buys from the trainer at the beastmaster guild, returns a list of "mount races. See "list of mount races".
