"there is no animal in this world that doesn't fear fire"
hmm.. I thought(or better to say that I read about it somewhere) that war horses was especially taught to not fear all that things what could be used to easily scare them during battle
@defianze I know for sure that they were trained to be calm around gunfire when guns started to become a common weapon, and that they were trained not to be startled by things like snakes so I'd assume they were trained to be calm around other things that scare them like fire. I can't seem to find anything that clearly states they were, but I only did a couple quick searches. It was a tactic that was used in the past though, so it might be that horses weren't trained to be calm around fire yet in this world, as using fire arrows to disable cavalry might not be a common tactic.
@Leo80221@defianze the thing about gunfire is that it is mostly a sound and although loud it hasnt been around long. Fire however has been around since forever so virtually every land creatre knows that it is dangerous.
Also fire isnt a momentarially thing, it persists it stays until its fuel is burnt out
@defianze No, horses are absolutely terrified of fire. They become so scared they lose all common sense and can run right back into a burning barn they already escaped from.
I like how the guy is more concerned about what kind of face the enemy will make when they discover the 15 year old girl rather than worry about her lol
@defianze i mean yeah war horses are trained against thing they would encounter in the battlefield, until you realize fire arrows weren't really used that much in the middle ages because of how inefficient they are (the arrow/bolt shot from a bow/crossbow would be so fast it would extinguish its own flame)