While this shield is attached to its barding, a mount can use a bonus action to cause it to animate. The shield leaps into the air and hovers in the mount's space to protect it as if it was wielding it, leaving its limbs free. The shield remains animated for 1 minute, or until the mount uses a bonus action to end this effect, or until the mount is incapacitated or dies, at which point the shield falls to the ground or reattaches to its place in the barding if the space is free.
Mounts will only use this bonus action if commanded to by their rider or a creature they trust. A mount in this armor gains intelligence limited only to the effect that when they hear the command to use the bonus action, they understand.
The barding of the mount must be fitted with a specific point for this shield to fit into or onto for its properties to work.
Shields require the Utilize action to Don or Doff. You gain the Armor Class benefit of a Shield only if you have training with it.
Notes: creature who is used as a mount, Utility, Warding
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