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Description

Based on an Osprey Publishing illustration of the Battle of the Kalka River (1223).
 
On the far western reaches of the Eurasian steppes, 20,000 Mongol Pegasi crushed an army of 80,000 Russian Earth ponies. This bloody battle marked the beginning of the eventual Mongol conquest of Russia.

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Background Pony #B713
In my heacannon, the ancient Pegasi tribe was totally Magyars before their conversion to Christianity, with added Spartan/Roman cultural elements.