In Final Fantasy XIV, naturally, your first mount is the series staple chocobo, which can also be trained to fight at your side as a Companion.In The Elder Scrolls Online, guar (a large reptilian creature used as pack animals and cattle) can be obtained as mounts, in addition to horses.The Seanchan of The Wheel of Time series have, among other things (see other sections), corlm, creatures like large ostriches with brown fur instead of feathers, although these are used mainly for hunting rather than as mounts.Even Filolial Queens, which look more like giant fluffy balls of feathers than birds, are just as eager to act as mounts and carriage-pullers, with main character Filo outright getting vocally upset if she's prevented from doing so. The Rising of the Shield Hero has Filolials, which is yet another case of what are basically chocobos in every way except name.by creating a saddle out of their own flesh. They are even capable of changing their physique to better accommodate their human riders, e.g. In the last book of the Malazan Book of the Fallen the K'Chain Che'Malle - bipedal, sentient Hive Mind-inclined dinosaurs - serve as mounts for their human allies.They also use these oversized, highly aggressive roosters in gladiatorial cockfights. The Rudewood's hotchi in China Miéville's Iron Council ride donkey-sized chickens.Flinx in Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth novel For Love Of Mother-Not rides a stupava riding bird through the soggy forests of Moth, where its partially webbed feet come in handy for the muddy terrain.The Gaunt's Ghosts novels had birds called Struthids used as cavalry on one of the planets the general description made them look like the bastard child of cassowaries.Horses do exist in Terry Pratchett's Discworld, so when some Mad Max-style raiders trying to get at Mad the dwarf's water supplies show up in The Last Continent riding and/or being pulled by a variety of things that are very notably not horses (including an emu, as described by someone who has never heard of such a thing), it's mostly to illustrate how utterly insane Fourecks is.Necron's mount gets an arrow to the forehead early on, but a few more make appearances as the heroes penetrate into the irradiated wasteland. Wizards has the assassin Necron 99 ride a biped creature with ostrich-like legs and body, topped by the meanest, ugliest horse-ish head ever.Taarna herself rides a critter that resembles a kawaii pterodon, and a mighty faithful one, to boot. Heavy Metal has the barbarians mount huge vampire bats to pursue the fleeing Action Girl Taarna.Birds such as sparrows are considered inferior to hummingbirds and are generally used only for racing. However, the bats aren't actually loyal to the Boggins in one scene, a Leafman knocks a Boggin off his bat and takes the reins, and the bat has no complaints. They also can ride on bats due to their leader's ability to imitate the cry that bats use to locate others of their own kind. The Leafmen in Epic ride hummingbirds into battle, while the Boggins prefer Creepy Crows because they are more tolerant of decay.Yu-Gi-Oh!: In Kaiba's in-universe virtual reality video game, the characters ride Niwatori (giant flightless birds), which some of the characters call giant chickens.Trigun has the Tomas, weird cross-breeds between ostriches and non-avian dinosaurs.In Samurai 7, some people ride around on giant turtle-like creatures.In the early series of Pokémon: The Series, it was rather common to see Dodrio (a three-headed ostrich-like bird) used as a mount.Panzer World Galient: In the world of Arst, people ride horned, bipedal critters that look like a wingless bird mixed with a dinosaur.What look like giant ducklings are used as mounts in One Piece's Kingdom of Alabasta.Nausicaa also features another type of unusual mount, referred to as Warbeasts, which are something like giant, shaggy dogs with cow horns and lizard-like feet. Horseclaws are giant flightless birds used as rides in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (and inspired the above-mentioned chocobos).In Maze Megaburst Space, a two-legged brown dinosaur is the preferred cavalry mount.Although they were never used as mounts they replaced horses as the animal of choice for racing. Last Exile has some very chocobo-esque flightless birds.
Mostly just a Mythology Gag owing to Yasuhiro Nightow creating both series. Gungrave also has the Tomas, which, while not featured as a primary mount, are used instead of horses for racing purposes.They normally can't fly, but can be granted that ability through the use of seal spells.