Minotaur

The horns? A full-grown minotaur is three times your size and ten times your weight — and when he comes charging at you, it's with an axe with a head bigger'n your torso. Trust me, you won't be worried about the horns.

— Arthur of Canesgrove, Rydmarkian Man-At-Arms

Minotaurs are a species of humanoid beastkin which share the physical characteristics of a bovine, a similarity that presents itself most prominently in the bony, elongated shapes of their heads, curved horns which extend from above either temple, and the cloven hooves than stomp across the ground beneath them. With heavy-set bodies covered in brutish musculatire and patches of course, rough fur, the average minotaur stands head and shoulders above even the tallest of orcs and easily towers over the humans and elves which inhabit the majority of their modern-day ranges.
As with any scourgespawned species, the appearance of a minotaur will often vary heavily from individual to individual, and sometimes more widespread physical changes may come with greater distances. Kardan and Yojini minotaurs, for instance, may bear the backwards-curving horns and wide muzzles of native water buffalo in contrast to the cattle-like features of Eletherosian-born bulls, while those of the Ivskanic plains often wear the thick coats and shorter horns of bison. While some wear more human-like faces with flatter snouts and expressive mouths, others bear heads near indistinguishable from that of a bovine; many have legs covered in fur and and bare, thin-haired torsos while others wear course mats of fur across their back and chest, often obfuscating the boundaries between these animalistic coats and the more kithlike patches of hair which sometimes grow from their scalps, chins, and necks. Unlike the animals of their resemblance, minotaurs are omnivorous, and this difference can often be noted at a glance by the flesh-spearing fangs and tusks which many members of their species sport, protruding from wide-set snouts.
The temperament of a minotaur can vary from the nearly feral to those more or less equivalent in capability to any kithfolk, though their imposing statures and the damage even one is capable of causing have lead to a history of frought relations between minotaurs and the kith races. Much the centaur and many less sapient scourgespawned creatures, minotaurs are believed to have first existed within The Midling Plains before spreading across the globe, and both the ancient empire of Gitae and many smaller kingdoms once scattered across the Eletherosian Midlands were known to have traded with and employed minotaurs as fighters and laborers.
Contemporarily, however, they are shunned and feared within most foreign societies and exist primarily as a shattered community, possessing no wide-spread unique culture of their own to the knowledge of any scholar and instead adapting to local customs and smaller communities. Though most commonly encountered at the corners of the Midland Plains, throughout the plains of Rydmark, and the Aaqwat Plains in Ivskia, they aren't common sightings for kithfolk even in such locations. Elsewhere and in smaller numbers, they tend towards thick woodlands and heavy forests, and have garnered a host of associated significances with the deepwood in cultures and religions from Northern Eletheros to the Willowwoods.

by LucSalcedo