A famous story tells how Mehmet Ali invited a bunch of high ranking Mamluks to a feast at the Citadel of Cairo. As the Mamluks left the feast and passed through a narrow ally, gates were closed ahead and behind them and soldiers in the buildingbuildings shot down at them. All of the Mamluks were massacred except for one who rode his horse to the top of a wall and over the wall. The horse was killed by the fall but apparently the Mamluk was uninjured enough to make his escape.
A famous story tells how Mehmet Ali invited a bunch of high ranking Mamluks to a feast at the Citadel of Cairo. As the Mamluks left the feast and passed through a narrow ally, gates were closed ahead and behind them and soldiers in the building shot down at them. All of the Mamluks were massacred except for one who rode his horse to the top of a wall and over the wall. The horse was killed by the fall but apparently the Mamluk was uninjured enough to make his escape.
A famous story tells how Mehmet Ali invited a bunch of high ranking Mamluks to a feast at the Citadel of Cairo. As the Mamluks left the feast and passed through a narrow ally, gates were closed ahead and behind them and soldiers in the buildings shot down at them. All of the Mamluks were massacred except for one who rode his horse to the top of a wall and over the wall. The horse was killed by the fall but apparently the Mamluk was uninjured enough to make his escape.
There actually is a historical example of something similar to that allegedly happening in addition to the one John Dvorak mentioned in his answer.
Mehmet Ali Pasha was the Ottoman governor of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, making his family hereditary rulers of an almost independent Egypt. His many changes including breaking the power of the Mamluk class in Egypt.
A famous story tells how Mehmet Ali invited a bunch of high ranking Mamluks to a feast at the Citadel of Cairo. As the Mamluks left the feast and passed through a narrow ally, gates were closed ahead and behind them and soldiers in the building shot down at them. All of the Mamluks were massacred except for one who rode his horse to the top of a wall and over the wall. The horse was killed by the fall but apparently the Mamluk was uninjured enough to make his escape.
So you nonow know of two stories - possibly true ones - of men jumping their horses off of heights and surviving.
However, there are also stories of persons doing the same and not surviving, such as Leo Sgouros, besieged in the Acropolis of Corinth since 1205, who eventually despaired and committed suicide by riding his horse off the walls in 1208.
So perhaps you should try to find out the heights of those three alleged jumps, and other such jumps, and make certain that your character jumps a shorter distance than someone known to have survived.
There have been horse diving acts where horses, often with riders, dive into pools of water. So if there is a deep enough river or pond beneath a low enough cliff, a horse and rider could jump off the cliff into the water and both be uninjured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_horse[1]
In winter my younger brothers used to ride sleds down a steep slope at our place, which was so steep I nicknamed it "suicide hill". That part of the property was later sold to a developer who build a house on it next door to the barn where our office was.
The first family living in that house had preteen children who had vehicles looking sort of like motorized tricycles which they rode around their house so much they wore a path in the lawn. There was also a path going down the slope I called "suicide hill" and I sometimes saw the kids riding their vehicles straight up and straight down the "suicide hill" path.
So I can imagine that a daring horse and rider might ride down a steep but not vertical slope that nobody else would dare to, much as T. Sar suggested. Or maybe Tarn can jump his horse off the edge, land father down and jump again, over and over until they reach the bottom. Possibly the slope has a series of almost vertical slopes and flat strips of land, like a series of steps in a giant stair case.
And if Tarn is surrounded by a dozen bloodthirsty enemies atop the cliff when he sees an opportunity to become a hero, his leap of faith can be motivated by certain death if he stays as well as a chance to become a hero if he can reach the bottom and kill the enemy commander.
And if Tarn has a close relationship with his commander and thus a strong personal desire to avenge his death, he will have a third motivation to jump off the cliff.
And if Tarn's soldiers below on the plain start to waver and fall back when they see their commander slain, it will seem likely they will be defeated. But if the enemy commander is also slain, that will discourage the enemy and perhaps turn the tide of battle, giving Tarn a fourth motive to jump.
If you don't want Tarn to seem incredibly, reckless and suicidal, you should establish as many and as strong potential reasons for his action as you can think of, so the readers will more or less accept that he might jump off a cliff.
There actually is a historical example of something similar to that allegedly happening in addition to the one John Dvorak mentioned in his answer.
Mehmet Ali Pasha was the Ottoman governor of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, making his family hereditary rulers of an almost independent Egypt. His many changes including breaking the power of the Mamluk class in Egypt.
A famous story tells how Mehmet Ali invited a bunch of high ranking Mamluks to a feast at the Citadel of Cairo. As the Mamluks left the feast and passed through a narrow ally, gates were closed ahead and behind them and soldiers in the building shot down at them. All of the Mamluks were massacred except for one who rode his horse to the top of a wall and over the wall. The horse was killed by the fall but apparently the Mamluk was uninjured enough to make his escape.
So you no know of two stories - possibly true ones - of men jumping their horses off of heights and surviving.
However, there are also stories of persons doing the same and not surviving, such as Leo Sgouros, besieged in the Acropolis of Corinth since 1205, who eventually despaired and committed suicide by riding his horse off the walls in 1208.
So perhaps you should try to find out the heights of those three alleged jumps, and other such jumps, and make certain that your character jumps a shorter distance than someone known to have survived.
There have been horse diving acts where horses, often with riders, dive into pools of water. So if there is a deep enough river or pond beneath a low enough cliff, a horse and rider could jump off the cliff into the water and both be uninjured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_horse[1]
In winter my younger brothers used to ride sleds down a steep slope at our place, which was so steep I nicknamed it "suicide hill". That part of the property was later sold to a developer who build a house on it next door to the barn where our office was.
The first family living in that house had preteen children who had vehicles looking sort of like motorized tricycles which they rode around their house so much they wore a path in the lawn. There was also a path going down the slope I called "suicide hill" and I sometimes saw the kids riding their vehicles straight up and straight down the "suicide hill" path.
So I can imagine that a daring horse and rider might ride down a steep but not vertical slope that nobody else would dare to, much as T. Sar suggested. Or maybe Tarn can jump his horse off the edge, land father down and jump again, over and over until they reach the bottom. Possibly the slope has a series of almost vertical slopes and flat strips of land, like a series of steps in a giant stair case.
And if Tarn is surrounded by a dozen bloodthirsty enemies atop the cliff when he sees an opportunity to become a hero, his leap of faith can be motivated by certain death if he stays as well as a chance to become a hero if he can reach the bottom and kill the enemy commander.
And if Tarn has a close relationship with his commander and thus a strong personal desire to avenge his death, he will have a third motivation to jump off the cliff.
And if Tarn's soldiers below on the plain start to waver and fall back when they see their commander slain, it will seem likely they will be defeated. But if the enemy commander is also slain, that will discourage the enemy and perhaps turn the tide of battle, giving Tarn a fourth motive to jump.
If you don't want Tarn to seem incredibly, reckless and suicidal, you should establish as many and as strong potential reasons for his action as you can think of, so the readers will more or less accept that he might jump off a cliff.
There actually is a historical example of something similar to that allegedly happening in addition to the one John Dvorak mentioned in his answer.
Mehmet Ali Pasha was the Ottoman governor of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, making his family hereditary rulers of an almost independent Egypt. His many changes including breaking the power of the Mamluk class in Egypt.
A famous story tells how Mehmet Ali invited a bunch of high ranking Mamluks to a feast at the Citadel of Cairo. As the Mamluks left the feast and passed through a narrow ally, gates were closed ahead and behind them and soldiers in the building shot down at them. All of the Mamluks were massacred except for one who rode his horse to the top of a wall and over the wall. The horse was killed by the fall but apparently the Mamluk was uninjured enough to make his escape.
So you now know of two stories - possibly true ones - of men jumping their horses off of heights and surviving.
However, there are also stories of persons doing the same and not surviving, such as Leo Sgouros, besieged in the Acropolis of Corinth since 1205, who eventually despaired and committed suicide by riding his horse off the walls in 1208.
So perhaps you should try to find out the heights of those three alleged jumps, and other such jumps, and make certain that your character jumps a shorter distance than someone known to have survived.
There have been horse diving acts where horses, often with riders, dive into pools of water. So if there is a deep enough river or pond beneath a low enough cliff, a horse and rider could jump off the cliff into the water and both be uninjured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_horse[1]
In winter my younger brothers used to ride sleds down a steep slope at our place, which was so steep I nicknamed it "suicide hill". That part of the property was later sold to a developer who build a house on it next door to the barn where our office was.
The first family living in that house had preteen children who had vehicles looking sort of like motorized tricycles which they rode around their house so much they wore a path in the lawn. There was also a path going down the slope I called "suicide hill" and I sometimes saw the kids riding their vehicles straight up and straight down the "suicide hill" path.
So I can imagine that a daring horse and rider might ride down a steep but not vertical slope that nobody else would dare to, much as T. Sar suggested. Or maybe Tarn can jump his horse off the edge, land father down and jump again, over and over until they reach the bottom. Possibly the slope has a series of almost vertical slopes and flat strips of land, like a series of steps in a giant stair case.
And if Tarn is surrounded by a dozen bloodthirsty enemies atop the cliff when he sees an opportunity to become a hero, his leap of faith can be motivated by certain death if he stays as well as a chance to become a hero if he can reach the bottom and kill the enemy commander.
And if Tarn has a close relationship with his commander and thus a strong personal desire to avenge his death, he will have a third motivation to jump off the cliff.
And if Tarn's soldiers below on the plain start to waver and fall back when they see their commander slain, it will seem likely they will be defeated. But if the enemy commander is also slain, that will discourage the enemy and perhaps turn the tide of battle, giving Tarn a fourth motive to jump.
If you don't want Tarn to seem incredibly, reckless and suicidal, you should establish as many and as strong potential reasons for his action as you can think of, so the readers will more or less accept that he might jump off a cliff.
There actually is a historical example of something similar to that allegedly happening in addition to the one John Dvorak mentioned in his answer.
Mehmet Ali Pasha was the Ottoman governor of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, making his family hereditary rulers of an almost independent Egypt. His many changes including breaking the power of the Mamluk class in Egypt.
A famous story tells how Mehmet Ali invited a bunch of high ranking Mamluks to a feast at the Citadel of Cairo. As the Mamluks left the feast and passed through a narrow ally, gates were closed ahead and behind them and soldiers in the building shot down at them. All of the Mamluks were massacred except for one who rode his horse to the top of a wall and over the wall. The horse was killed by the fall but apparently the Mamluk was uninjured enough to make his escape.
So there areyou no know of two stories - possibly true ones - of men jumping their horses off of heights and surviving.
However, there are also stories of persons doing the same and not surviving, such as Leo Sgouros, besieged in the Acropolis of Corinth since 1205, who eventually despaired and committed suicide by riding his horse off the walls in 1208.
So perhaps you should try to find out the heights of those three alleged jumps, and other such jumps, and make certain that your character jumps a shorter distance than someone known to have survived.
There have been horse diving acts where horses, often with riders, dive into pools of water. So if there is a deep enough river or pond beneath a low enough cliff, a horse and rider could jump off the cliff into the water and both be uninjured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_horse[1]
In winter my younger brothers used to ride sleds down a steep slope at our place, which was so steep I nicknamed it "suicide hill". That part of the property was later sold to a developer who build a house on it next door to the barn where our office was.
The first family living in that house had preteen children who had vehicles looking sort of like motorized tricycles which they rode around their house so much they wore a path in the lawn. There was also a path going down the slope I called "suicide hill" and I sometimes saw the kids riding their vehicles straight up and straight down the "suicide hill" path.
So I can imagine that a daring horse and rider might ride down a steep but not vertical slope that nobody else would dare to, much as T. Sar suggested. Or maybe Tarn can jump his horse off the edge, land father down and jump again, over and over until they reach the bottom. Possibly the slope has a series of almost vertical slopes and flat strips of land, like a series of steps in a giant stair case.
And if Tarn is surrounded by a dozen bloodthirsty enemies atop the cliff when he sees an opportunity to become a hero, his leap of faith can be motivated by certain death if he stays as well as a chance to become a hero if he can reach the bottom and kill the enemy commander.
And if Tarn has a close relationship with his commander and thus a strong personal desire to avenge his death, he will have a third motivation to jump off the cliff.
And if Tarn's soldiers below on the plain start to waver and fall back when they see their commander slain, it will seem likely they will be defeated. But if the enemy commander is also slain, that will discourage the enemy and perhaps turn the tide of battle, giving Tarn a fourth motive to jump.
If you don't want Tarn to seem incredibly, reckless and suicidal, you should establish as many and as strong potential reasons for his action as you can think of, so the readers will more or less accept that he might jump off a cliff.
There actually is a historical example of something similar to that allegedly happening in addition to the one John Dvorak mentioned in his answer.
Mehmet Ali Pasha was the Ottoman governor of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, making his family hereditary rulers of an almost independent Egypt. His many changes including breaking the power of the Mamluk class in Egypt.
A famous story tells how Mehmet Ali invited a bunch of high ranking Mamluks to a feast at the Citadel of Cairo. As the Mamluks left the feast and passed through a narrow ally, gates were closed ahead and behind them and soldiers in the building shot down at them. All of the Mamluks were massacred except for one who rode his horse to the top of a wall and over the wall. The horse was killed by the fall but apparently the Mamluk was uninjured enough to make his escape.
So there are two stories - possibly true ones - of men jumping their horses off of heights and surviving.
However, there are also stories of persons doing the same and not surviving, such as Leo Sgouros, besieged in the Acropolis of Corinth since 1205, who eventually despaired and committed suicide by riding his horse off the walls in 1208.
So perhaps you should try to find out the heights of those three alleged jumps, and other such jumps, and make certain that your character jumps a shorter distance than someone known to have survived.
There have been horse diving acts where horses, often with riders, dive into pools of water. So if there is a deep enough river or pond beneath a low enough cliff, a horse and rider could jump off the cliff into the water and both be uninjured.
There actually is a historical example of something similar to that allegedly happening in addition to the one John Dvorak mentioned in his answer.
Mehmet Ali Pasha was the Ottoman governor of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, making his family hereditary rulers of an almost independent Egypt. His many changes including breaking the power of the Mamluk class in Egypt.
A famous story tells how Mehmet Ali invited a bunch of high ranking Mamluks to a feast at the Citadel of Cairo. As the Mamluks left the feast and passed through a narrow ally, gates were closed ahead and behind them and soldiers in the building shot down at them. All of the Mamluks were massacred except for one who rode his horse to the top of a wall and over the wall. The horse was killed by the fall but apparently the Mamluk was uninjured enough to make his escape.
So you no know of two stories - possibly true ones - of men jumping their horses off of heights and surviving.
However, there are also stories of persons doing the same and not surviving, such as Leo Sgouros, besieged in the Acropolis of Corinth since 1205, who eventually despaired and committed suicide by riding his horse off the walls in 1208.
So perhaps you should try to find out the heights of those three alleged jumps, and other such jumps, and make certain that your character jumps a shorter distance than someone known to have survived.
There have been horse diving acts where horses, often with riders, dive into pools of water. So if there is a deep enough river or pond beneath a low enough cliff, a horse and rider could jump off the cliff into the water and both be uninjured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_horse[1]
In winter my younger brothers used to ride sleds down a steep slope at our place, which was so steep I nicknamed it "suicide hill". That part of the property was later sold to a developer who build a house on it next door to the barn where our office was.
The first family living in that house had preteen children who had vehicles looking sort of like motorized tricycles which they rode around their house so much they wore a path in the lawn. There was also a path going down the slope I called "suicide hill" and I sometimes saw the kids riding their vehicles straight up and straight down the "suicide hill" path.
So I can imagine that a daring horse and rider might ride down a steep but not vertical slope that nobody else would dare to, much as T. Sar suggested. Or maybe Tarn can jump his horse off the edge, land father down and jump again, over and over until they reach the bottom. Possibly the slope has a series of almost vertical slopes and flat strips of land, like a series of steps in a giant stair case.
And if Tarn is surrounded by a dozen bloodthirsty enemies atop the cliff when he sees an opportunity to become a hero, his leap of faith can be motivated by certain death if he stays as well as a chance to become a hero if he can reach the bottom and kill the enemy commander.
And if Tarn has a close relationship with his commander and thus a strong personal desire to avenge his death, he will have a third motivation to jump off the cliff.
And if Tarn's soldiers below on the plain start to waver and fall back when they see their commander slain, it will seem likely they will be defeated. But if the enemy commander is also slain, that will discourage the enemy and perhaps turn the tide of battle, giving Tarn a fourth motive to jump.
If you don't want Tarn to seem incredibly, reckless and suicidal, you should establish as many and as strong potential reasons for his action as you can think of, so the readers will more or less accept that he might jump off a cliff.