...how else? Actual horse/carousel decorations? The other interpretation exists of course, but c'mon. We've already got all sorts of leather clothing and whatnot that you could say is 'obviously' BDSM gear too.
ayrt Yeah, but 'actual horse' decorations sound very off when your 'horse' is an entire thinking being with a language and culture, and not, you know, a horse...
Dragonlance was one of the first stories I read with dragons that I loved, that have this. (Pern was probably the first, though maybe not, and those dragons aren't exactly fully sapient like dragonlance and sornieth ones are supposed to be). Since then I have run into other stories with dragons where they are fully sapient and fully partners to their riders (which are usually humans/humanoids) and still have tack.
Beyond that, not everyone follows FR lore, so they can have actual carousel dragons (as in statues that are on a literal carousel), or their dragons aren't sapient, and so on. We don't have 'humans' but we have humanoid species, such as serthis, centaurs, even the raptoriks and harpies could potentially benefit from this apparel. We know that some beastclans are allied with dragonkind, we have beastclan familiars who can befriend dragons, so maybe those dragons want ways to be able to take their friends with them, with the friend being safe and still being able to 'communicate' with the dragon through the use of the bridle (since someone on the forums pointed out it doesn't look like there is actually a bit on the bridle apparel, these would just be a 'hey look there' *tugs reins in direction dragon is meant to look* with it having no ability to actually control the dragons through the use of the bit)
I replied elsewhere, but honestly, even removing the dragon bit entirely, there are series out there with horses who ARE sapient and have language (and potentially even culture) and still are ridden like other horses, with the tack being to help their humanoid partner communicate and stay on. They consent to wearing the tack.
I have also seen other stories where creatures like centaurs also wear a tack like apparel when they work with humans, and other creatures that are sapient but wear tack.
The only thing FR doesn't have that those other stories do are humans, but FR *does* have humanoid creatures that could still benefit from the use of tacks.
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Re: Carousel horse apparel
(Anonymous) 2022-10-21 09:28 am (UTC)(link)Re: Carousel horse apparel
(Anonymous) 2022-10-21 09:35 am (UTC)(link)Yeah, but 'actual horse' decorations sound very off when your 'horse' is an entire thinking being with a language and culture, and not, you know, a horse...
Re: Carousel horse apparel
(Anonymous) 2022-10-21 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)Sure humans don't exist in 'the lore' but people ignore the lore all the time.
It's not that deep, homie. Let the dragon fans have their dragon tack.
Re: Carousel horse apparel
(Anonymous) 2022-10-21 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)Dragonlance was one of the first stories I read with dragons that I loved, that have this. (Pern was probably the first, though maybe not, and those dragons aren't exactly fully sapient like dragonlance and sornieth ones are supposed to be). Since then I have run into other stories with dragons where they are fully sapient and fully partners to their riders (which are usually humans/humanoids) and still have tack.
Beyond that, not everyone follows FR lore, so they can have actual carousel dragons (as in statues that are on a literal carousel), or their dragons aren't sapient, and so on. We don't have 'humans' but we have humanoid species, such as serthis, centaurs, even the raptoriks and harpies could potentially benefit from this apparel. We know that some beastclans are allied with dragonkind, we have beastclan familiars who can befriend dragons, so maybe those dragons want ways to be able to take their friends with them, with the friend being safe and still being able to 'communicate' with the dragon through the use of the bridle (since someone on the forums pointed out it doesn't look like there is actually a bit on the bridle apparel, these would just be a 'hey look there' *tugs reins in direction dragon is meant to look* with it having no ability to actually control the dragons through the use of the bit)
As said, it isn't that deep.
Re: Carousel horse apparel
(Anonymous) 2022-10-21 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)I have also seen other stories where creatures like centaurs also wear a tack like apparel when they work with humans, and other creatures that are sapient but wear tack.
The only thing FR doesn't have that those other stories do are humans, but FR *does* have humanoid creatures that could still benefit from the use of tacks.