Minotaur
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The Minotaurs:
The race of minotaurs is an ancient and honorable one, with a traditional code of behavior, the Rote of Theseus, running back thousands of years. Theseus is a legendary human hero of the ancient Graecan civilization who, in the course of his travels, came upon a tribe of savage minotaurs who captured him and his companions. Rather than serving the heroic human up on a spit, however, they listened to his impassioned speeches, soon coming to see him as a glorious prophet. He delivered to them the Rote, a strict writ governing many aspects of their lives, and continued on his journeys, leaving that first tribe (whose name is lost in the mists of time) to spread their new faith. In less than a hundred years every minotaur tribe was following, to a greater or lesser degree, the Rote of Theseus.
Physically, a minotaur resembles a huge, dark-skinned, muscular human with the head of a bull upon its shoulders. That head bears a pair of long, sharp horns which minotaurs use in combat, along with their massive fists, to great effect. They are not outstandingly fast, nor as large and strong as ogres and yeti, but hold their own against such opponents thanks to their intelligence, which is of a level superior to such folk, and the well-known keenness of their senses.
Intellectually, minotaurs are somewhat uptight and stuffy, usually adhering very strictly to the Rote, which demands honorable, forthright, honest, and fair behavior of them at all times. All minotaurs are given instruction in literacy at an early age, that they may read the Rote for themselves. Interestingly, these folk display a particular affinity for mazes; their minds are particularly adept at solving and navigating them, and they often choose such environs to dwell within. They are aided in these endeavors by a fair degree of nightvision ability. Minotaurs do not limit themselves to a single habitat, though, taking to surface dwellings, subterranean abodes, and seafaring with equal facility.
The bull-men have a longstanding affinity for kentaurs, and speak the same language as them, the Kentos tongue; they also hold humans in a certain reverence for being the race to bear their prophet Theseus, and respect garou for their sense of honor, even if it is not as carefully enumerated and codified as their own. They bear a deep-seated enmity toward orcs, goblins, and all their relatives, though, including ogres and yeti, and have aided the humans, elves, dwarves, and others as staunch (if not particularly numerous) allies in the perennial wars against such races. They live long lives, nearly two hundred years in many cases, but a correspondingly long gestation period and time to maturity keeps their numbers low. The highly structured nature of their minds seems to hinder their ability to learn new things somewhat, but they would never consider abandoning their traditions.
/---------------------------- The Minotaur Race -----------------------------\ | Attributes Strength 50 to 100 | | Intelligence 25 to 90 | | Constitution 60 to 100 | | Dexterity 20 to 80 | | Willpower 40 to 100 | | Charisma 20 to 90 | | Perception 50 to 100 | | Size 65 to 90 | | Typical Sexes Male | | Female | | Languages Native Kentos | | Resistances Temporal strong resistance | | Traits Assimilativity -2 | | Night Vision 1 | | Sentience Anthropic | | Cultures and Homelands Almerian Wildling Almeria | | Freeholder Freehold | | Losthavener Losthaven | | Lowlander Halfmoon Bay | | Sanctuary | | Mycenaean Mycenae | | Physical Characteristics Anatomy Tailed Anthropoid | | Natural Weaponry Superb | | Other Bestial | | Chimeric | \----------------------------------------------------------------------------/
