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Neither Tayledras nor Shin ' a ' in, converse to White Gryphon and Iftel, are proficient in line-fighter combat or management of armies, or for that matter, even of divisions or battalions of any particular size.

Expert in the use of individual combatants and small squadrons or at best perhaps a legion, they are dangerous combatants in their homeland territories, and do not typically congregate into any larger grouping.

The Shin ' a ' in and Tayledras share what to outsiders may also be considered a " bloodthirsty " demeanor-the Shin ' a ' in drive anyone not of Shin ' a ' in or adopted Shin ' a ' in, out of their plains, typically by arrowhead and sword-blade, and the Tayledras have a tendency for driving out interlopers-usually by arrowhead or at knifepoint.

When the Tayledras move onward after cleansing the Uncleansed Lands, they no longer protect such lands and habitation by outsiders is permitted to expand therein, but only so far as the boundaries of the Tayledras ' newly chosen location for their new Vale, an area wherein the lands are still dangerous.

After the Mage Storms and the breaking of geas, however, Vales began to proliferate, as many Tayledras Vales became permanent settlements in all, and nearly a dozen and a half Vales exist according to the Valdemar Companion, which would seem to indicate that when the Vales can afford to establish a new Vale, they gather together those who would settle such and work there, and launch the expedition to the newly chosen point for the Vale to exist.