Centaur

Chimeric animate that possesses the lower body of a horse. Usually the head extends from the front part of where a horses neck and head would normally be placed.
Different species of centaur have been cataloged in the wild, with varying states of intelligence to be considered other races.
===Species type A: Wild Centaurs===
Main Article: Wild Centaurs
A full grown male centaur can stand over seven feet tall from hooves to head and weighs over a ton.
The Centaur engage in constant war against other centaur and other races. Some other races who have to deal with centaur aggression generally hate them so intensely that they have taken to skinning their corpses and making rugs out of them. Such decorations are a common sight in cities. Some other races are even attempting to control the savage centaurs by encouraging inter-tribal conflicts, so as to prevent the centaur from banding together and becoming a dangerous force.
The threat of a unified centaur tribe is not uncommon, as they seem to have a cultural belief of a messianic figure leading the centaur as a destructive force across the land.
Centaurs are savage and brutal, and they often take prisoners. These prisoners are usually eaten. However, some partake in the slave trade, centaurs dragging humanoids of all sorts off to become slaves, forcing them to work in hardscrabble opal mines are not unheard of. Opals are used to make crude trinkets to their gods. Some rarer instances show the centaurs trading these opals with the other races for slaves, or vice versa. Their participation in trade and serving as mercenary allows the Centaur to be considered an other race.
The youth of the other races have made something of a game out of this tradition, snatching away the centaur's offerings and leaving insulting totems in their place. They must be swift, lest they be caught by the centaur, who leave their gutted remains as a warning to others who would consider doing the same.
Filthy creatures, centaurs are always followed by swarms of flies, which are attracted by the centaur's repellent odor. Centaurs have no qualms about leaving piles of dung strewn about their encampments, and no concept of privacy.
===Species type B: Children of Sagittarius===
Main Article: Children of Sagittarius
Fight with giant spears and shields. Long lived, these centaur are more civlilized than the wild centaurs. Religious, celebrating ancestor worship with a particular respect towards hunters and racers.
These centaurs are more civilized than wild centaurs, and are notably more varied in their personalities, have priests, merchants, craftspeople, loners, hunters, drunks, revelers, and more.They are good friends with some of the other races, especially hunters and racers among them. They are admirative of humans in particular for their ability for long distance running. Their human friends are called Endure, hunters whose hunting is based on exhausting their prey by relentlessly following them at their pace.
Centaurs are not to be confused with Werehorses.
===Species type C: Polkans===
Main Article: Polkan
Polkans are chimeric centaurs with the head of a lion.
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