Mounted Men

The Mounted Men are a Dianfirric knightly order operating in the wastes south of the Jurikh Line. Drawn mostly from the skilled horsemen of the Jan'ah Hills and northern Dalfore, they are responsible for deadening the blows of the Plainspeople before they reach the defensive lines to the north. They number around seven thousand, but are stretched over a border of nearly 2,500km from Dessar to Kiba Sud.
== History ==
The Mounted Men were originally a mercenary unit in the pay of the Sheikh of Khaira during the Fifty Year War. After the end of this conflict, the unit was kept on as an auxiliary force of the Vardanid Empire to guard the southern border against raiders.
After the Great Gap, the threat had not diminished, but had changed in nature. The Mounted Men now fought the Plainspeople, with any raiders foolhardy enough to attack from the south being savaged by this new foe. Over time, human resistance against the People was organised more thoroughly, and the Mounted Men became an international force, not in the pay of any one nation. They were still primarily funded by the Vardanids, however, as it was mostly the Vardanids they defended.
After the collapse of the Vardanid Empire in the 7th Century, the Mounted Men were truly independent. The force shrank from twenty thousand to its current seven, as the new geopolitical field was far more fragmented and poorer.
Currently the Mounted Men are in a boom, working together with the Talorian Order and the Knights of the Sea Gods to defend the human world from devastation.
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