Racial Deception

  Powerful Build: A Minotaur combines the features of a human and bull, with the build and musculature of a hulking humanoid, but with cloven hooves, a bovine tail, and, most distinctive of all, a bull's head. Fur covers a minotaur's upper body, coarse and thick on the head and neck, gradually thinning around the shoulders until it becomes humanlike hair over the arms and upper torso. The thick hair turns shaggy once more at the minotaur's waist and thickens around the loins and legs, with tufts at the end of the tail and around the powerful hooves. Minotaurs take pride in their horns, the sharpness, size, and color of which are related to an individual's place in minotaur society. Fur and skin coloring runs from albino white to coal black, though most Minotaurs have red or brown fur and hair.   Demonic Ancestry: Minotaurs embody the tension between civilization and savagery, discipline, and madness, for they stand in two worlds. Tugged towards violence but bound by conscience, numerous Minotaurs are driven to rise above their dark impulses. Such a Minotaur seeks the balance between the monstrous and the refined. Innumerable Minotaurs give in to the temptations staining their souls and find themselves thralls to Baphomet, The Horned King. Minotaurs must struggle to become more than the beasts they resemble or else succumb to the demonic brutality they despise.   Symbol of the Labyrinth: Labyrinthine patterns are important to Minotaurs, and these decorations appear on their clothing, armour, and weapons, and sometimes even on their hides. Each pattern is particular to a clan, and the pattern's size and complexity help Minotaurs identify family allegiance and caste. The patterns evolve through the generations, growing more expansive based on clan members' deeds and a clan's history.   Minotaurs: Minotaurs often name their children after these great heroes, believing that a child will inherit the strength, audacity, guile, or fearsomeness of a heroic namesake. Other minotaur parents invent their own names, though, believing in their child's potential to light a new constellation with the brightness of their own soul.