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Gorean Book Quote Requests
Requests 1-173 were asked and answered back when there were only 25 books.
Also, some of the early questions were unintentionally truncated and cannot be restored. However, the answers are shown in their totality.
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| 88 | "Please can you tell me where it says that tarns cannot fly over water?"
Answer
Hello girl,
...here is the answer to your question.
Fogaban
It is extremely difficult to take a tarn far out over the water.
I did not know if they could be controlled at sea.
Generally even tarn goads cannot drive them from the sight of land.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 271
The tarn can scarcely be taken from the sight of land. Even driven by tarn
goads he will rebel. These tarns had been hooded. Whereas their instincts
apparently tend to keep them within the sight of land, I did not know what
would be the case if they were unhooded at sea, and there was no land to be
found. Perhaps they would not leave the ship. Perhaps they would go mad with
rage or fear. I knew tarns had destroyed riders who had attempted to ride
them out over Thassa from the shore. But I hoped that the tarns, finding
themselves out of the sight of land, might accommodate themselves to the
experience. I was hoping that, in the strange intelligence of animals, it
would be the departure from land, and not the mere positioning of being out
of the sight of land, that would be counter-instinctual for the great birds.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Pages 273 - 274
But obviously tarns can indeed fly over water out of the sight of land:
Soon, behind me, there were some hundred tarnsmen, and below each, dangling,
hanging to the knotted ropes, were five picked men.
Raiders of Gor Book 6 Page 275
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