Travel around Gor, Tharlarion's

Common transportation on Gor
High tharlarion & tarn are two most common mounts of Gorean warrior
The tarn is one of the two most common mounts of a Gorean warrior; the other is the high tharlarion, a species of saddle-lizard, used mostly by clans who have never mastered tarns.
Tarnsman

Bred & ridden for thousands of years before tarns were tamed.
These gigantic lizards had been bred on Gor for a thousand generations before the first tarn was tamed, and were raised from the leathery shell to carry warriors.
Tarnsman


Descriptions of High/Saddle Tharlarion
High tharlarion moves on two back feet in great bounding strides
Two small forelegs merely dangle
He rode the species of tharlarion which ran on its two back feet in great bounding strides. Its cavernous mouth was lined with long, gleaming teeth. Its two small, ridiculously disproportionate forelegs dangled absurdly in fron of its body.
Tarsnman

Carnivorous
Needs far less food and water than a tarn
The high tharlarions, unlike their draught brethren, the slow-moving, four-footed broad tharlarion, were carnivorous. However, their metabolism was slower than that of a tarn, whose mind never seemed far from food and, if it was available, could consume half its weight in a single day. Moreover, they needed far less water than tarns.
Tarnsman

Has stamina
Moving slowly - resembles a proud stalking movement.
Moving faster, it bounds in great leaping movements 20 paces at a time.
To me, the most puzzling thing about the domesticated tharlarions, and the way in which they differed most obviously from wild tharlarions and the lizards of my native planet, was their stamina, their capacity for sustained movement. When the high tharlarion moves slowly, its stride is best described as a proud, stalking movement, each great clawed foot striking the earth with a measured rhythm. When urged to speed, however, the high tharlarion bounds, in great leaping movements that carry it twenty paces at a time. >/I>
Tarnsman

Short tempered
Carnivorous
Such lizards are extremely short-tempered, as well as carnivorous, and I had no intention of attracting attention to myself by beating my way through them with a spear butt.
Tarnsman

Slower than a kailla
The kaiila is extremely agile, and can easily outmaneuver the slower, more ponderous high tharlarion.
Nomads

Managed by snout reins
"Yes, Mistress," I said. I proceeded down the street in the direction indicated, leading the tharlarion by its reins. Small saddle tharlarion are generally managed by snout reins.
Fighting Slave

Transparent membraned eye-lids
It stood there, placidly. It slid a transparent membrane upward, covering its eye, as a broad-winged insect crawled on its lid. The insect fluttered away.
Fighting Slave


Tharlarion Saddle for the smaller saddle tharlarions
Resembles more a stirruped seat.
Leather
Cushioned
"Help me into the saddle," she said. I lifted her sandaled foot upward, and she took her place in the leather seat at the side of the tharlarion's back. It has stirrups, into which I helped her place her feet, but it is not exactly a saddle as those of Earth would think of one, even of the sort usually designated as a sidesaddle. It is somewhat more in the nature of a stirruped seat. It is at the height of the beast's back, cushioned, held there by straps. She hooked herself into the seat, or, if one prefers, saddle.
Fighting Slave


Tharlarion related "jobs"
Tharlarion Keeper - presumably much like a Tarn Keeper.
"He knows the business and needs of Ar," said the guard, "as would a Merchant, but he is yet of the Caste of Warriors."
"He has sponsored many games," said a Tharlarion Keeper.
Assassin

Strap Master
A bejewelled, curtained platform slung beneath the slow, swaying bodies of two of the broad tharlarions appeared. The beasts were halted by their strap-master, and after some seconds the curtains parted.
Tarnsman


Areas of Gor where tharlarions are used
The city of Ar
'What news of Ar?' I asked. 'War,' said the mounted spearman approvingly. 'Now, while the men of Ar fight among themselves for the cylinders, an army is gathering from fifty cities, massing on the banks of the Vosk to invade Ar. There is a camp there such as you have never seen - a city of tents, pasangs of tharlarion corrals; the wings of the tarns sound like thunder overhead. The cooking fires of the soldiers can be seen two days' ride from the river.'
Tarnsman

Hooded, a chain on my throat, my wrists in steel behind my back, I stumbled after a tharlarion wagon, to the back of which my throat chain had been bolted, through the streets of Ar.
Assassin

Lydius
Those approaching were drawn by land tharlarion, plodding on log roads along the edges of the river. The land tharlarion can swim barges across the river, but he is not as efficient as the vast river tharlarion. Both sides of the river are used to approach Laura, though the northern shore is favored. Unharnessed tharlarion, returning to Lydius at the mouth of the Laurius, generally follow the southern shore road, which is not as much used by towing tharlarion as the northern.
Captive

Stones of Turmus
I had been more than a month now in the keep of Stones of Turmus.
...
Two tharlarion, ponderous and stately, made their way toward the keep. They were mounted by two warriors, with lances.
Slave Girl

The City of Tharna
"Therefore we must scatter to the forests and the mountains, taking cover where we can. We must live off the land. We will soon be sought by all the soldiers and guardsmen Tharna can set upon our trail. We will be pursued and ridden down by the lancers who ride the high tharlarions! We will be hunted and slain from the air by the bolts of tarnsmen!"
Outlaw This scene takes place in Tharna

The City of Turia
On long lines of tharlarion I could see warriors of Turia approaching in procession the Plains of a Thousand Stakes.
Nomads

I was hardly questioned by guards at the gates of Turia, for the city is a commercial oasis in the plains and during a year hundreds of caravans, not to mention thousands of small merchants, on foot or with a single tharlarion wagon, enter her gates.
Nomads

Tyros
It would be a great triumph in Tyros, to bring the great Marlenus, naked, in the chains of a slave, branded, before their council. Doubtless they would first bring him so through the streets, between jeering throngs, chained to the back of a tharlarion wagon, white-silk maidens of Tyros dancing beside him, casting love blossoms upon him. Marlenus would doubtless make great holiday in Tyros.
Hunters

Venna
Venna is a small, exclusive resort city, some two hundred pasangs north of Ar. It is noted for its baths and its tharlarion races.
Fighting Slave

Vonda
. The Lady Florence owned many tharlarion. Her stables were among the most extensive and finest of any owned by a citizen of Vonda.
Fighting Slave