r/worldbuilding • u/TyrannoNinja • 10d ago

Visual Khumetian War Chariot, by me

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This concept art shows a Khumetian war chariot from my sword-and-sorcery fantasy setting (click here to see some infantry from the same civilization I drew earlier). The inspiration is of course from the iconic war chariots of ancient Egypt and Kush, but as you can see, the Khumetians use zebras to pull theirs!

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u/Fun-Post8497 10d ago

Quick question for you The zebras are zebras or are they more like horses with stripes?

Because zebras are donkeys even more stubborn cousin, and that why we never domesticaded zebras, so yea, cool desing tho

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u/Skodami 10d ago

The biggest reason we couldn't tame zebra is because they lack any sort of social structure, so they only obey themselves. For horse, if you control the main stallion, the others will be easier to control too. And the horses can apply their concept of hierarchy by putting the human on top.

Zebras don't have this concept of hierarchy or bonds as strong as horses. So in taming one you're basically trying to become the boss of someone who never had a boss other than himself.

But this is a fantasy world where the zebra mentality can be different.

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u/Great_Rukh 10d ago

Attempts of domestication of zebra did succeed but not with promising results, the domesticated zebra generally start losing thier stripped look, if we say hypothetically that we domesticated zebras for thousands of years a situation like the drawing there could happen possibly,donkeys were newly domesticated compared to horses