00:26The Miras are the lords of all horses.
00:28There's sort of a strain of horses with extremely pure blood going back to time immemorial who
00:35have developed this affection and mutual admiration for the kings and princes of Rohan.
00:44I looked at horses that might have some kind of connection with royalty in the real world.
00:49And when you think about those, things that come to mind are the battle mounts of the
00:54High Middle Ages. And the Andalusian horse, the Carthusian horse, and the Frisian horse have
00:59a body type and anatomy that is extremely muscular but not overly so.
01:04Just as you might think about a lean thoroughbred for the track, you wouldn't expect to see
01:10an armored warrior riding that horse into battle. And so the body type of the horses, the way
01:15they look in game, is different.
01:17Another thing that we did is we gave them very prominent feathering on their hooves, which
01:25adds an element of floating to the effect when you see them run.
01:28We are now at a point where the horses will be customizable in the way that avatars are.
01:33They'll have different slots that players will be able to, you know, customize.
01:39You can now manipulate their appearance piece by piece. Your head and neck gear will be able
01:45to be changed. Your body gear on sort of the haunches, as well as, you know, leg protection.
01:50These are all things that players will be able to control individually.
01:54There are three different kinds of war steeds. There's a light, medium, and heavy.
01:57The light's going to be a little bit more mobile. The heavy steed will obviously be a little
02:00bit more of a tank. And each one of those steeds will have their own trade tree that, as you
02:05progress, as you level up, you'll get points that you can then dump into those trait trees.
02:10Traits that might include affecting things like your ability to turn sharply, balance-oriented
02:15type things, your speed, how well they can evade in battle.
02:19You'll be able to ride your war steeds around as a travel mount in the places where Mounted
02:24Combat isn't a game mechanic that's in play. There are a few that we're doing war steeds versions
02:31of, so some of the most popular travel mounts will have war steeds armor sets made from
02:37their designs so that players will be able to emulate what they may have liked on their
02:42travel mount on the war steeds.
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