[soltakss]

What do people think about the Steppe? Assuming, of course, that we have a large area of steppe/savannah, who should be in it?

We have horse-riding barbarians from the Portal writeup coming from the north. The nothern steppe seems the obvious place for them.

What about other riders? We know about the Beast Riders of Prax (Glorantha) and something similar might be interesting. In the real world, we have camel-riders, reindeer-riders, buffalo-riders and elephant-riders and I think that many of these would fit quite nicely.

In the far north you could have reindeer-riders/herders and even mammoth-riders, Wooly-Rhino-riders or musk-ox-riders roaming the tundra. On the steppe proper you could have something similar to the Praxian Beast Riders. Where steppe turns into desert, camel-riders would be more natural.

Unlike Prax or Pent in Glorantha or the Eurasian Steppe in the real world, I wouldn't give these the same culture. Sure, they are animal riding nomads but they wouldn't worship the same gods, wouldn't have the same heroes and wouldn't share the same customs.

I'd even have different types of horse barbarians, some fully nomadic, some semi-nomadic and some sedentary, in different areas of the steppe.