Who can catch animal mounts in Fortune's Weave?

The mechanic belongs to Cai. It opens on his Part I route at Chapter 5, and the animals you lure in are kept in the stable in Lowtown, Dagsion.

What do mounts actually give you?

Each Bond Level with a mount grants one stat point and five percent growth in a stat, so Bond 5 is five points and twenty five percent. The stat point and the growth rarely land on the same stat, which is why a mount can hand out flat Speed while boosting Dexterity growth.

How do you capture a mount?

Animal tiles appear on the world map. Choose Lure, place a food item, and match the species preference to improve the odds. After several turns the tile fills a capture gauge, and returning to choose Capture plays a short scene. A failure still pays out as that animal's manure for fertiliser.

Why are some rows marked community reported?

Because the figures come from one forum thread rather than from two independent publications. Several posters corroborate parts of the table inside that thread, and one site republishes those same figures, but a republisher is not a second source, so the label stays honest rather than flattering.

Animal Mounts and Bonds

Capture, feeding and bonding, plus every recorded subspecies with the stat and growth bonuses it hands over at full bond.

The capture loop

Animal mounts are Cai's mechanic: tiles marked with an animal appear on the world map, you place a food item to lure one, and a capture gauge fills while you get on with Dagsion. Returning to choose Capture either sends the animal to the stable in Lowtown or hands you that animal's manure, which is fertiliser rather than a consolation prize.

A mount is not equipment you equip and forget. It has a Bond Level with the unit caring for it, and only a unit in a matching mounted class gets the abilities: an Ornius pairs with an Ornius Rider, and no amount of bonding changes that. The stable runs to a hard capacity, recorded in the table above rather than repeated here, and extras can be released. Players also report that captures refresh daily while the rest of the world map runs weekly.

availability	Animal Mounts are a Cai-only world map mechanic.	game8 and the community write-up agree on the Cai restriction.
unlock	Unlocks on Cai's Part I route at Chapter 5.	Community write-up.
luring	Animal tiles appear on the world map. Selecting Lure places one food item; matching the species preference improves the odds.	Community write-up plus the Game8 capture page title.
capture	After several turns the tile fills a capture gauge. Returning and choosing Capture plays a short scene.	Community write-up.
success	A successful capture sends the animal to the stable in Lowtown, Dagsion.	Community write-up.
failure	A failed capture gives that animal's manure, which is used as crop fertiliser.	Community write-up.
bond	Assigning a unit to care for and feed an animal in the stable raises that unit's Bond Level with it, faster with preferred food.	Community write-up.
pairing	A mount only unlocks its abilities for a unit in a matching mounted class: an Ornius pairs with an Ornius Rider.	Community write-up.
cap	The stable holds up to 200 animals, and extras can be released.	Community write-up.
refresh	Players report the stable captures refresh daily, unlike most world map activities which are weekly.	Community write-up, reported rather than confirmed.
rare	Rare spawns are reported at roughly a 70 common to 30 rare split, and players report being able to shift the result by reloading and changing how many times a tile is searched.	Community write-up, single-poster and explicitly described as imprecise.
bondBonus	Each Bond Level grants +1 point in a stat and +5 percent growth in a stat, so Bond 5 is +5 points and +25 percent.	Serenes Forest thread, corroborated by several posters inside the same thread.
bondException	Bucephalus, Alexandra's unique mount, and Rocinan, Io's, cap at six reward points instead of five, giving +6 points and +30 percent.	Serenes Forest thread, two posters agree.
statGrowthSplit	The stat point and the growth percentage rarely apply to the same stat, so a mount can raise Speed as a flat bonus while raising Dexterity growth.	Serenes Forest thread.
charioteer	Players report the Charioteer class doubles the growth bonus a mount provides, and attribute it to its Charioteer's Path skill; the thread treats the mechanism as unresolved.	Serenes Forest thread, described there as not settled.
otherRoutes	Io and Alexandra carry paired mounts of their own, and one poster states those bonuses apply on other routes too, with bonding slower away from the stable.	Single poster, and it conflicts with the Cai-only framing elsewhere; both are kept.

What a bond is actually worth

Each Bond Level grants one stat point and five percent growth in a stat, which compounds to five points and twenty five percent at Bond 5. The two halves are the part players miss: the flat point and the growth percentage rarely apply to the same stat, so a mount can be picked for its growth contribution while its flat bonus sits on something you did not want.

Two mounts break the pattern. Bucephalus and Rocinan, the unique mounts belonging to Alexandra and Io, cap at six reward points rather than five, for six points and thirty percent growth. Separately, players report that a Charioteer doubles the growth a mount provides and attribute it to the Charioteer's Path skill, though the thread itself treats that mechanism as unsettled rather than proven.

Every recorded subspecies

Figures below are Bond 5 values. A dash of doubt belongs on all of them: they come from one forum thread, and where the source itself calls a number unresolved that is stated in the row.

Ornius6 recorded

Subspecies	Food	Paired class	Abilities	Bond 5 stats	Bond 5 growth	Spawns
Wild Ornius	Fish	Ornius Rider	Paired Run, Paired Stealth	Spd +2, Dex +3	Spd 10%, Dex 15%	Elissa Pass (Amalthea), Sparrow's Thoroughfare (Melias), Mount Ouranos (Saveilon), Faro Forest (Castalia)Common
White Ornius	Fish	Ornius Rider	Paired Purify	Not recorded	Not recorded	Faro Forest (Castalia)Rare
Meganius	Fish	Ornius Rider	Paired Run, Paired Bulk	Str +1, Def +3, Dex +1	Str 5%, Def 15%, Dex 5%	Sparrow's Thoroughfare (Melias), Mount Ouranos (Saveilon), Axion Gorge (Saveilon)Rare at two spawns, common at Axion Gorge
Red Meganius	Fish	Ornius Rider	Paired Run, Paired Protection	Str +3, Def +1, Dex +1	Str 15%, Def 5%, Dex 5%	Axion Gorge (Saveilon)Rare
Magonius	Fish	Ornius Rider	Paired Run, Paired Magic-Focus	Mag +3, Dex +2	Mag 15%, Dex 10%	Headsman's Rock (Ogmios)Common; reaching it from Saramis is reported to need Renown 7
Black Magonius	Fish	Ornius Rider	Paired Magic-Sight, Canto	Mag +2, Spd +2, Dex +1	Mag 10%, Spd 10%, Dex 5%	Headsman's Rock (Ogmios)Rare

Horse4 recorded

Subspecies	Food	Paired class	Abilities	Bond 5 stats	Bond 5 growth	Spawns
Wild Horse	Vegetable	Not recorded	Paired Run, Paired Alertness	Dex +3, Spd +1, Def +1	HP 5%, Spd 5%, Dex 5%, Def 5%, Res 5%	Sunlit Pass (Amalthea), Oleance Plains (Melias), Daimos Plateau (Lambath), Sunfall Path (Elektra)Common
Monoceros	Vegetable	Not recorded	Paired Healing, Paired Miracle	Spd +1, Dex +1, Lck +3	HP 5%, Spd 5%, Dex 5%, Res 10%	Oleance Plains (Melias)Rare
Ferghanan Horse	Vegetable	Not recorded	Paired Arts-Focus, Canto, Paired Fierce-Arts	Str +2, Dex +1, Def +2	HP 5%, Str 5%, Dex 5%, Def 10%	Sunfall Path (Elektra)Rare
Rocinan	Vegetable	Unique to Io	Paired Run	Spd +1, Dex +3, Def +2	HP 5%, Spd 5%, Dex 5%, Def 10%, Res 5%	Not recordedUnique; its capture condition is an open question in the source, and it caps at six reward points

Pegasus4 recorded

Subspecies	Food	Paired class	Abilities	Bond 5 stats	Bond 5 growth	Spawns
Wild Pegasus	Vegetable	Not recorded	Paired Streak, Paired Mage-Kill	Not recorded	Not recorded	Valley of Black Wings (Idyia), Raptor's Throat (Castalia), Pegasi's Peak (Castalia)Common
Falicorn	Vegetable	Not recorded	Paired Streak, Paired Tempest, Canto	Str +1, Spd +3, Dex +1	Str 5%, Spd 15%, Dex 5%	Raptor's Throat (Castalia), Pegasi's Peak (Castalia)Rare; one poster also records Build +1
Dark Pegasus	Vegetable	Not recorded	Paired Streak, Paired Magic Speed	Mag +3, Spd +2	Mag 15%, Spd 10%	Valley of Black Wings (Idyia)Rare
Bucephalus	Vegetable	Unique to Alexandra	Paired Streak	Str +1, Spd +3, Res +2	Str 5%, Spd 15%, Res 10%	Not recordedUnique; caps at six reward points, which is the change one poster records for Falicorn as well

Bau1 recorded

Subspecies	Food	Paired class	Abilities	Bond 5 stats	Bond 5 growth	Spawns
Wild Bau	Meat	Not recorded	Paired Streak, Paired Fierce-Arts	Str +2, Dex +2, Spd +1	Str 10%, Dex 10%, Spd 5%	Warrior's Road (Pasithea), Valley of Sedden (Pasithea), Bau-Caller's Cape (Idyia), Velatori Valley (Thaleia), Yashiro Fort (Solidus)Common

Elephant1 recorded

Subspecies	Food	Paired class	Abilities	Bond 5 stats	Bond 5 growth	Spawns
Elephant	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recorded	Not recordedNo subspecies, figures, abilities or spawn points are recorded yet, and its preferred food is listed as TBD

Paired abilities at Bond 3 and Bond 5

Abilities do not arrive as a flat package. Each one steps up at Bond 3 and again at Bond 5, which means a mount you intend to rely on has to be bonded twice over before it shows its full value. There are 17 recorded abilities in total, and most subspecies carry two of them.

Ability	Bond 3	Bond 5
Paired Run	Move +1	Move +2
Paired Alertness	Dodge +5	Dodge +10
Paired Arts-Focus	Hit +10 when attacking with a Combat Art	Hit +15 when attacking with a Combat Art
Paired Healing	Restores a little HP after combat	Restores some HP after combat
Paired Stealth	Avoid +10 while on favourable terrain	Avoid +10 and Shield +3 while on favourable terrain
Paired Purify	Clears poison at the start of the player phase, 50 percent chance	Clears poison at the start of the player phase
Paired Bulk	Build +2	Build +4
Paired Protection	Critical damage taken is reduced to 70 percent	Critical damage taken is reduced to 50 percent
Paired Magic-Sight	Critical +5 while equipped with magic	Critical +10 while equipped with magic
Canto (granted by the mount)	Move 1 space after combat	Move 2 spaces after combat
Paired Mage-Kill	Attack +3 in combat if the enemy uses magic	Attack +5 in combat if the enemy uses magic
Paired Streak	Move +1	Move +2
Paired Magic Speed	Avoid +10 in combat, trigger chance equals Magic	Avoid +20 in combat, trigger chance equals Magic
Paired Tempest	Avoid +10 against bows	Avoid +15 against bows
Paired Fierce-Arts	Attack +2 when using a Combat Art	Attack +4 when using a Combat Art
Paired Miracle	Luck +3	Luck +5
Paired Magic-Focus	Not recorded	Not recorded

Where each subspecies spawns

Spawns are tied to world map locations rather than chapters, and Cai can only reach 13 of the 18 recorded spawns during Part I: the rest open later. Rare spawns share the tile with the common one, so a rare is a matter of patience at a tile whose common animal you may not want.

Region	Location	Common	Rare	Reachable in Cai Part I
Amalthea	Sunlit Pass	Wild Horse	None	Yes
Amalthea	Elissa Pass	Wild Ornius	None	Yes
Castalia	Faro Forest	Wild Ornius	White Ornius	Yes
Castalia	Raptor's Throat	Wild Pegasus	Falicorn	Yes
Castalia	Pegasi's Peak	Wild Pegasus	Falicorn	Yes
Elektra	Sunfall Path	Wild Horse	Ferghanan Horse	Yes
Idyia	Valley of Black Wings	Wild Pegasus	Dark Pegasus	Yes
Idyia	Bau-Caller's Cape	Wild Bau	None	Yes
Lambath	Daimos Plateau	Wild Horse	Not recorded	No
Melias	Oleance Plains	Wild Horse	Monoceros	Yes
Melias	Sparrow's Thoroughfare	Wild Ornius	Meganius	Yes
Ogmios	Headsman's Rock	Magonius	Black Magonius	Yes
Pasithea	Warrior's Road	Wild Bau	Not recorded	No
Pasithea	Valley of Sedden	Wild Bau	Not recorded	No
Saveilon	Mount Ouranos	Wild Ornius	Meganius	Yes
Saveilon	Axion Gorge	Meganius	Red Meganius	Yes
Solidus	Yashiro Fort	Wild Bau	None	No
Thaleia	Velatori Valley	Wild Bau	None	No

Verified Video Intel · Audio Transcript

Bond Early, Ride Later

Coverage by Varsona · Verified English Captions · gTVnq4iqeGs

Fortune's Weave Gave Mounted Units a Game-Changing Upgrade

This section exists for one mechanic that the tables above imply but never spell out: when the bond has to be built. The video it comes from is pre-release commentary recorded before the game shipped, so its speculation is labelled as speculation below and the parts that our tables have since settled are marked as settled. The load-bearing point it makes about timing is the one worth carrying into a run.

01 · The Gate

The class decides, not the bond

Whether a unit may ride a given mount is decided by its class rather than by the mount, so a horse, an Ornius or a flying animal that is bonded to an infantry unit still does nothing until that unit is in a matching mounted class. That is the same rule the mechanics table above records, and it is why a mount is not simply equipment you swap in.

02 · The Trick

Pre-build the bond in a non-mounted class

The mechanic the video singles out is that bonding is not gated by the class that can use the mount. A unit can build its bond from a class that cannot ride the animal, so that the moment it promotes into the mounted tier the ability is already at the level it would otherwise have taken a tour of duty to reach. In practice this turns class planning into a scheduling problem rather than a swap.

03 · Unsettled

Does the ability follow the unit?

The creator raises, and explicitly declines to answer, whether an unlocked mount ability stays with the unit after the mount is swapped, or only while that specific animal is attached. He cannot confirm it from the footage. It is recorded here as unresolved, because the whole value of bonding early depends on the answer, and nobody has demonstrated it since.

04 · Settled Since

Which routes get mounts at all

The video also asks whether routes other than Cai's can obtain mounts, or only buy worse ones from vendors. That question has since been answered by the capture loop recorded on this page: the animal tiles, the lure and the Lowtown stable belong to Cai's Part I route from Chapter 5, which makes the mount subsystem a route mechanic rather than a universal vendor line.

Still open in the record

These are the questions the source itself leaves unanswered rather than questions this page is hiding. They are listed so that a reader can tell the difference between a gap and a fact, and so that the page can be corrected the moment one of them is settled.

The exact figures for White Ornius, Wild Pegasus and every Elephant entry.
What Paired Magic-Focus does beyond the name, which one poster guesses is a magic hit rate boost.
Which bait gives the best odds on a rare spawn, which the thread asks and leaves unanswered.
Whether battalions also grant growth bonuses on Theodora's route, which one poster asks and nobody confirms.
Whether the Charioteer growth doubling is a real effect or a display artefact, which the thread itself calls unresolved.
How Rocinan is obtained, and whether recruiting Io is required for it.

Frequently asked questions

Who can catch animal mounts in Fortune's Weave?: The mechanic belongs to Cai. It opens on his Part I route at Chapter 5, and the animals you lure in are kept in the stable in Lowtown, Dagsion.
What do mounts actually give you?: Each Bond Level with a mount grants one stat point and five percent growth in a stat, so Bond 5 is five points and twenty five percent. The stat point and the growth rarely land on the same stat, which is why a mount can hand out flat Speed while boosting Dexterity growth.
How do you capture a mount?: Animal tiles appear on the world map. Choose Lure, place a food item, and match the species preference to improve the odds. After several turns the tile fills a capture gauge, and returning to choose Capture plays a short scene. A failure still pays out as that animal's manure for fertiliser.
Why are some rows marked community reported?: Because the figures come from one forum thread rather than from two independent publications. Several posters corroborate parts of the table inside that thread, and one site republishes those same figures, but a republisher is not a second source, so the label stays honest rather than flattering.

Mounts sit next to the classes page, because a mount only works for a unit in a matching mounted class, and next to the equipment page, where the cursed objects carry their own trade-offs.