Since have cav got 'crippled' recently, I thought it was a good moment to point out a funny problem with the horse on the crpg loading screen. You probably allready know what loading screen I'm talking about: the artwork from Kajia featuring a group of soldiers standing on top of a hill watching down at the enemies (who are not portrayed) coming closer to the top. A beautiful piece, but nonetheless my eye gets drawn to what's in the center of the drawing:
A HALF DEAD/CRIPPLED HORSE!visitors can't see pics , please
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loginHere is a close-up of the horse:
And here is how a healthy horse should look like:
I just had my ethnology exam a week ago; so with my very limited knowledge (I'm only in my first year lol), I drew a few lines that show how this horse as absolutely NOT faring well. It either is sick, crippled or deformed since birth.
The
RED LINE follows the arch of the spine, as you can see it's obviously extremely concave, in dutch we call this 'karperrug' which basically the back looks like the back of a carper. In this case, the loin and the horizontal neck (see later) make up for the biggest part of the concave look. This usually means the horse suffers from a leg injury due to famine or too heavy work.
The
YELLOW LINES follow the neck and the head, now this is an extremely obvious problem. Have you ever seen a horse with such a horizontal neck and his head so low to the ground? No, horses don't do this indeed, but donkeys do however! If a horse keeps his neck like this, this usually indicates lymphatism, sickness, weakness or a torn nuchal ligament (however in the last case, the head would even hang lower).
The
GREEN LINES, show the stance of the hind legs. I don't even know what to make from this. I think that you would have to do a lot of damage before your horse would go stand like this. I would say it has more in common with a crippled rabbit than with a horse; or even a cow, goat or pig. It's as if he's about to stand up and start walking on two legs.
The
BLUE LINES, show the stance of the front legs. This is probably the smallest of all the problems. Normally these legs should be almost perfectly parallel, while these are a bit too narrow in the shoulders and thus wider at the bottom. This puts more strain on the tendons and in this case indicates a too small chest cavity and underdevelloped shoulders.
