Okay-

Okay-

Here are a horse and a pegasus.

Obviously, the pegasus has wings and the horse doesn't.

And so instead of drawing the Fairy Queen, my brain demanded I figure out how to ride a pegasus.

As you can see from my highly anatomically correct diagrams, a pegasus cannot have a saddle. A saddle fits pretty much exactly where the wings would connect, and the flap of skin connecting the wing and the body is pretty essential for flight and takes up any other space for a modified saddle. Not to mention that the keel bone, also very necessary for flight (as it allows the wing muscles a place to connect), would prevent the girth from fitting correctly.

So. How do you ride a pegasus? You can't go bareback, because putting your legs in front of the wings would restrict their movement, and you wouldn't have any control or balance. The same goes from putting your legs behind the wings.

My solution? A kind of crouch-y saddle! I really don't know what to call it. Or describe it, really.

Basically, it would consist of a harness, as shown in my even-more-anatomically-correct diagram above, that goes underneath the pegasus and connects in front of the forelegs and behind the hindlegs with knee and foot holds along the back you'd strap yourself into. A kind of handle poking up from the front connection you can hold onto would connect to the reins so you'd have control, and you'd use them and your feet behind the wings to steer.

Do I think this would actually work? Probably not. The pegasi would have to be specially trained to be ridden and to respond to foot commands similar to leg commands on a normal horse (but higher up, pretty much on their back where it would be more difficult for the pegasus to feel and near impossible for the rider to actually control the pegasus with) and the riders would need very good core strength.

But not only is it the only solution I could come up with, I reckon being able to pull out this abomination of straps and using it to actually ride a pegasus would be pretty cool.

If anyone has a different solution, please tell me! I really want to figure this out.

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Okaaaay so. This was a Process. I wanted to draw the Simurgh (and it's ?kinda partner? the Chamrosh) so I did. I believe it's from Persian mythology (though that was like 2 seconds on google so please correct me if I'm wrong) and is a mix of a dog and a peafowl with lion claws.

That first image is of an Indian peafowl x Sarabi dog Simurgh.

But I wasn't happy with it so I redesigned it as a Saluki dog x Indian peafowl.

THEN I realised I wanted to redesign it again with a Green Peafowl x Saluki dog because I wanted it to be two species actually native to Persia where the Simurgh is from.

So- behold the end result!

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It’s just a quick sketch in pencil, before and after smudging, of Xira and Niyx flying Alex away after the... events... of book 3′s ending

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This is fact.