These horse-sized lizards are built low to the ground with legs splayed wide. Their steady gait, sense of balance, and ability to walk on walls and ceilings make them ideal mounts for patrolling dark elves. Most noble houses have at least a handful of the valuable lizards, and the larger houses have entire squadrons of lizard cavalry. Rather than charging into battle like human knights, drow cavalry stealthily creeps unnoticed across the ceiling to pepper enemies with poisoned crossbow bolts; by the time the targets realize the attack isn't coming from the ground, most of them are asleep and are easy prey for support troops. Although they cannot see in the dark, riding lizards have a keen sense of smell and are trained to follow the silent directions of their rider, allowing them to navigate the blackest tunnels with only a slight decrease in speed. Larger, slower breeds of lizards are used by the drow as pack animals.