Centaur

Race Details

In the sprawling modern cities, where “open roads” seems like a contradiction and “open plains” is sheer nonsense, centaurs nevertheless retain a love of wide spaces and the freedom to travel. As much as they can, centaurs run — in wide plazas, spacious parks, and expanses of rubble and ruin. They race the wind, hooves thundering and tails streaming behind them, until the next wall looms in their path and brings them to a stop.
Affinity for Nature Centaurs have an affinity for the natural world. They are typically found outside cities in familial clans of ranchers, farmers, and occasionally as nomadic tribes in order to experience the freedom in nature they crave.
Centaurs celebrate life and growth, and the birth of a foal is always cause for festivities. At the same time, they revere the traditions of the past, and are often times voices of memory and history, preserving old ways and keeping alive the legends of ancestral heroes through their oral histories. They feel a close kinship with wild animals, perhaps because of their own horse-like bodies, and delight in the feeling of running alongside herds and packs of other beasts.

Clans and Community

Centaurs sense the interconnectedness of the natural world. One expression of this connectedness is a preference towards nudity. They also celebrate family and community as microcosms of that greater connection. They have a strong clan identity and are fiercely loyal to their individual communities as well as the clan as a whole. Their love of history and tradition also means that centaurs are more likely than most other Fae to join the same alignment that their parents did.

Centaur Names

Centaurs’ given names are passed down through family lines. The name bestowed on a new foal is typically the name of the most recently deceased family member of the same gender, keeping alive the memory — and, the centaurs believe, some shard of the spirit — of the departed. Centaurs "in the wild" don’t use family names, but they wear symbols that represent their family membership. These symbols might include graphical representations of plants or animals, printed mottoes, braids and beads worn in the hair and tail, or even specific patterns of woven fabric.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Centaurs have the upper bodies, down to the waist, of muscular humans, displaying all the human variety of skin tones and features. Their ears are slightly pointed, but their faces are wider and squarer than those of elves. Below the waist, they have the bodies of horses, with a similar range of coloration — from various shades of chestnut or bay to dappled or even zebra-like striped patterns. Most centaurs style their hair and their tails in a similar way. Centaurs from more traditional clans favor long, flowing hair. Centaurs in the more contemporary clans cut their hair in rough, spiky styles.
The upper bodies of centaurs are comparable to human torsos in size, and their lower equine bodies average about 5 feet tall at the withers. Often times they are perceived as mounted riders by humans due to the Umbral Arcana and younger centaurs up north commonly join the Mounties as a profession.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Centaurs are herbivores and are incapable of digesting meat. If accidently ingested, meat can actually make centaurs very ill.