Sunvale: friendly minotaur community

1. Minotaur are generally considered monstrous and unintelligent. Due to the common practice of enslaving minotaur to guard labyrinths and other dungeons, they are generally encountered as monsters driven mad with solitude, pain, and hunger. Even in the wild, minotaur rarely learn language and move through the wilderness alone, but are generally peaceful and controlled.
2. Sunvale is an stark repudiation of these perceptions. This small minotaur community is an outlier in minotaur society, having gathered on the edge of a human nation to imitate their social ways. They have successfully opened mines and smithies along side their farms. They have great family loyalty and tribal unity, which forms something of a barrier to their trade with the nearby nation.
3. The players might be surprised to find they can interact with these powerful minotaur in a peaceful way. Given stereotypes, perhaps the nearby king will ask a them to investigate the community for danger presented to nearby villages. They may have to mediate conflicts between the human villages and the tribal and aggressive minotaur encroaching on their claims.
4. This particular group of minotaur came together when an eccentric druid who knew some of their ancestors well insisted on bringing them together and showing them human civilization. He believed they could achieve a similar level of civilization and convinced them to form Sunvale. The experiment has so far been successful.
https://dungeonmasterblock.freeforums.net/thread/2203/dm-nastics-124-why-friends