Re: Chess Characters

Right you are, prswirve. Chariots were armored, contained archers, etc., and may have sometimes been decorated to look like stone. Talk about your psychological warfare. “The land here hates us, sir! The castle’s outbuildings themselves ride into battle–must be made of local stone?”
(WHACK, thud) “I’ll not have superstitious cowards in the ranks!”
“He was right. I got shot by one, General.”
“An arrow?”
“An arrow from a moving stone outbuilding, General.”
“#$%^&*”
Mistranslations from one language to the next led the meaning through stone, etc.

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–No one has seen the riders of White’s rooks and lived. They shoot from their perches as soon as they line up the shots.

http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u438/jamais5/ChessPieces/HerrD-WhiteRook_zps864f2f6a.png

Of course, no one is eager to be directly in front of or behind them either!

**Only one kind of fish looks brutish enough to be as powerful as a rook but still looks diverse enough to be traveling in exactly four directions at an instant’s notice. It’s a matter of how you look at it. Or how your eyes point. Oh, whatever.