Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-5601442-20151231172926/@comment-5601442-20160101233246

Tarver wrote: In the Unfinished tales it talks of the Wainriders attacking once they had the support of the Variags. Part of it says "This was composed not only of the war-chariots of the Wainriders but also of a force of cavalry far greater than any that had been expected". Obviously the whole group of that cavalry was probably not Variags, but that suggests that the preferred method of fighting for the Variags was when they were mounted on horses. Also wainriders seem more persian to me because they used war wagons/chariots to fight, whereas most nomadic groups like the mongols didnt use chariots. Nomads were actually the first people in the world to invent chariots. The chariot was invented somwhere around the steppes of Kazakhstan by nomadic tribes. So really, that would add more fuel to the Wainrider nomad idea. Also, the text pretty blatantly suggests they were nomads anyways.