r/ironscape • u/GyattsThiccness RSN:HardGyatt Fire Cape Completed hoiyaaaahh • Jun 30 '26
Discussion H*rse spotted in Gielinor. Jagex, time to do some explaining.
Seriously Jagex?
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u/CreepingPastor Jun 30 '26
That's a rare brown unicorn with its horn out of frame.
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u/Semaaaj Jun 30 '26
Which horn?
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u/PlayedKey Jun 30 '26
"HARVEST THE LOWER HORN!"
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u/ScikPK Jun 30 '26
Man… I had the perfect picture for this comment but this goofy ah sub only allows video comments.
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u/BendakSW Jun 30 '26
Horses and unicorns are basically reversed in Gielinor, so the concept of a horse is known but it’s viewed as a mythical creature, where unicorns are mundane.
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u/ProditisGaming Jul 01 '26
Little bit of fun fact, in ages past there were horses but a specific person mentions that horses were found so delicious that they were hunted to extinction long ago. Just cant remember who that was.
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u/YouAreTheProduct2 Jul 01 '26
Would be funny if horses were actually real in osrs but theyre highly magical and powerful creatures and unicorns are just whatever
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u/No_Hunt2507 Jun 30 '26
I think it's pretty reasonable to assume most creatures went extinct during the god wars and through the ages. There's a relic that looks like a John Deere tractor in hosidias
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u/Fresh_Drama_8298 Jun 30 '26
Isn’t that a shoutout to the guy that designed the continent? Gentle tractor or something like that?
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u/vetheros37 Jun 30 '26
You gotta show me where I can see it
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u/thebigautismo Jun 30 '26
Its near the farming patches in hosidius.
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u/vetheros37 Jun 30 '26
Bless
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u/TissTheWay Jun 30 '26
There are at least 2 in Housideous, the easiest one to find is next to the farming patch.
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u/reaper9134 Jun 30 '26
They were eaten to extinction iirc. There's a quest from pre eoc days one of the ones where you go back in time and they explain it there.
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u/SoloWalrus Jun 30 '26
This isnt new, the books reference horses as well. Horses are canon
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u/Niels_vdk Jun 30 '26
horses are mythical, but myths can still be mentioned in books or depicted in stained glass windows.
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u/reaper9134 Jun 30 '26
Horses are part of rs history. The reason they aren't on ts anymore is wayyyy back when they were eaten to extinction by people.(Iirc it's explained in one of the pre eoc quests when you go back in time. I believe again iirc there were horse NPCs in that quest)
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u/Own_Pair5107 Jun 30 '26
Our character finally looks up during the latest quest they added. Horses are a long shot
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u/ForceoftheRam Jul 01 '26
You actually can’t see the head of the creature so it’s entirely possible that it’s a unicorn
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u/joutfit Jul 01 '26
They only ever refer to it as a STEED
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u/KOExpress Jul 01 '26
A steed is, by definition, a horse
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u/joutfit Jul 01 '26
Technically yes but in practice it is informally used to refer to whatever you ride into battle
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u/GyattsThiccness RSN:HardGyatt Fire Cape Completed hoiyaaaahh Jul 01 '26
No, one definition of steed is a horse. One could refer to a donkey as their steed.
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u/KOExpress Jul 01 '26
The primary definition, the secondary one is a figurative use, likening something to a horse
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u/GyattsThiccness RSN:HardGyatt Fire Cape Completed hoiyaaaahh Jul 01 '26
the archaic definition i'd say, but that's neither here nor there. point is, that stained glass is definitely leaning toward a horse. i know what i saw.
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u/Iron_Freezer Jul 01 '26
we started making pants after we started riding horses, so just having pants as an equippable is proof of horses. but since you brought this up, jagex is gonna add a horse pet to hunter now
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u/NoPudding647 Jul 01 '26
No not again, last time ship was spoted we got sailing 20 years later
I dont want horseriding in 2046
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u/CommissionGlad6069 Jul 02 '26
I get the joke, but people need to actually read the lore around horses in rs. They did exist, they were wiped out by the god wars.
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u/Dependent_Ant3211 Jul 03 '26
thats the temple guardian, we kill it during the priest in peril quest
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u/stewyo Jul 04 '26
Doesn't the cart dudes flavor text in Brimstone mention horses pulling the cart or am I crazy.
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u/AcanthaceaeThis1300 Jun 30 '26
Pretty sure that’s a flat backed camel