cataphracts

As for the other dead, two cataphracts and a hand of varlets, most had been mistaken for foes in the darkness, and killed by their fellows.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Some cataphracts stole a few women too, or rather girls no older than Sunup, whom they found hiding in a cave farther up the valley.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

We bellowed it over and over and I saw cataphracts and armigers singing too.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Here and there were solitary pavilions of cataphracts brought low by the shiver-and-shake, some with horses waiting in full caparison, as if their masters expected to ride to battle.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

The cataphracts separated to search in different directions.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

The cataphracts and their men watched fire-eaters swallow and spit out flames, while Galan and I visited the peddlers who sat under awnings at one end of the square, selling talismans and offerings.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

It was witnessed by two cataphracts of Delve and a priestess of Copper.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

And a force of cataphracts is a nice literary dodge for 'knights' in this setting.

Chester in the seventh century: surviving infrastructure Carla 2009

You could tell the cataphracts of Growan were none too pleased to have their men singled out for punishment.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

I knew the winners, all five: three cataphracts, an armiger, and an Auspex of Rift, Divine Volator.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009