oh then my previous statement is still true. only the Horse, Raptor and big horse thing in the orc zone can be used as mounts in that way. also for the horse you had a choice between strong horse, fast horse or girl horse I think, so maybe you chose the strong one so it doesn't change much for travel speed compared to the others? and I was pretty sure you just needed to feed them a ton until they capped on the like and you could train them, I'll go back some saves so I can see if I'm missing something.
also the love potions only have scenes with certain character's, those being Bernard, Korg, Barrel, Harold, Xer and maybe like one or 2 other's but I can't remember them. Sabal is not yet added tho, and his content is limited as well. the only scenes for him are losing to him 10 times in the newish zone and seducing him in the forest.