You raise some very valid points. I'll have to think about it. I might even introduce riding goats around Conata unless someone describes them there first. Goblins would be the kind of creatures to ride on anything that would bolt as soon as they're on it.

Maybe I'll make some kind of amalgam of a few creatures for hain. I don't want to give away what I have in mind for how it would work in combat, but suffice it to say, hain are not going to be using lances against each other until the materials get better. There'll be other things.

Spears for war ought to become more important for them with war animals, though.