War Pegasus

“To the first knight in my company that befriends a war pegasus and takes it as their mount, I will give you twenty gold pieces. If you manage to obtain one before anyone in Knight Captain Alain's company, I will give you double that!”

—Raimond, le Tenace, Knight Captain of the 3rd Lancier Company Most pegasi prefer solitude and shy away from others. Rare is it to befriend one, and rarer still is the pegasus that allows a rider upon its back. There are many accounts of attempts to capture and tame these creatures, but pegasi are intelligent celestials of the upper planes, not animalistic beasts, and all attempts to tame them have failed.

Legend has it that, many ages ago, Queen Carliona le Fou became so incensed at her failure to tame a captured pegasus that she struck its head with her blessed sword, and the blade stuck fast. The pegasus reared in anger, and a blast of lightning shot from the tip of the sword and struck the queen down. Thus the war pegasus was born.

In reality, it isn't a sword at all but a long shard of bone that courses with celestial energy. Perhaps it is a genetic flaw, or perhaps it is the consequence of a unicorn and pegasus union thousands of years ago; none can say.

Whatever the case, because of their martial appearance, many assume these creatures charge their foes and impale them. In truth, the war pegasus fires celestial energy from the blade's tip, and some Praetorian lore blames these winged steeds for the spectacular displays of forked lightning that tear through the skies on stormy nights.