Parity Is For Horses

The original nomadic inhabitants of Cbyx rode Modar from one oasis to the next, beasts captured and trained as cubs. The riders developed an extremely close relationship with the animals, the bond was carried over by legendists as ancient, noble, spiritual. What were written as saintly men and women of Cbyx nature, quitely and stoically enduring, became Northern horsemen, cantankerous, drunken, combative, wild. And they in turn became fable for teleplays, books, programs. Their iconography graced everything having to do with the North. Of great fascination, and State disapproval of the previous century was the brief war between the horsemen and the expanding industry. The purposing of horses for labor was anathema to the tradition of the Cbyx riders, enough that the horsemen, who rarely organized, caused twenty years of havok for any State loving midlander who happened into their hills.