Centaur Tribal Hosts

Banner of Ilezeya's tribe

**The Centaur Tribal Hosts**, or simply known as the **Centaur tribes**, are a collection of several various Centaur herds that inhabit the steppes and grasslands all over Scythia in Sscythian Legends.

There is no distinct borders with Aria's cities and its 10 clans, but they are most prominent in the central to eastern plains that border Zapadoslaya, and the Aria kingdom's capital city.

The hosts are populated with mobile settlements that can be quickly packed up and moved when they choose to relocate, led by the most competent commander of the tribe and his wife, referred to as the "alpha stallion" and "alpha mare." The territory a certain tribe or number of tribes controls as their migration grounds is called a Stallionate.

## History

### Origins

While what they evolved from is unknown, they can date their ancestry back to before the founding of Aria, also populating the ancient cold steppe that the ancient Arians lived in.

According to their religion, the Centaurs believe they came from an ancient forest called Magnesia, where they started off as feral barbarians in caves, using stones and branches to fight large predators, alongside having the speed to outrun them.

They lived in caves and hunted in forests for centuries, when a great cloud came along, leading them out of the cave to go to war against another mysterious people, these would be other half-man half-animal creatures similar to centaurs but with horns and far more brutal and aggressive, the Minotaurs.

Outnumbered ten to one, the Centaurs would go to war with the Minotaurs, with the use of bows and exploiting the Minotaur barbaric "brawns of brains" thought process, would win over the minotaurs.

### The great journey

After the war with the Minotaurs, the centaur tribes would decide they couldn't stay in once place forever, and remembered the great cloud that led them to the Minotaurs, would follow the movement of the clouds in the sky to guide them.

This would also lead to the creation of the herd, as they sought safety in numbers, and the bow would replace the branches and rocks they used to use as weapons, with the bow and arrow actually being regarded as a sacred religious item that all foals, colt or filly, are taught to use as soon as possible, as it could mean the difference between life and death.

Soon they would meat yet another people, except these people had built a city around a massive tree that went higher than even the clouds, the Centaurs had never seen such a thing before. These people would turn out to be the ancestors of the Arians, The Cucuteni.

The Centaur tribes would actually attack and raid the Cucuteni's cities and villages all the time as they crossed in their travels. It wouldn't be when one village was being attacked by a giant, that the Centaurs and Cucuteni come together to stop and kill it.

From this, the Cucuteni and Centaurs would come together to break bread in a feast to celebrate, and the tribal alphas would be contacted to establish peace between the two races forever. The centaurs would stop raiding Cucuteni villages as well as protect trade routes they used from monsters and attackers, and the Cucuteni would not expand into their lands, outside of a few outposts and storehouses that the Centaurs could use to replenish supplies as they traversed the land, and has been in place for centuries.

### War with the Anunnaki

When the Centaurs allied with the Cucuteni, eventually calling themselves the Arians, they too became a target of the Anunnaki's hatred.

To them, the Centaurs were just as complicit in the Arian's theft of the Anunnaki's identity, so when war broke out, the Centaurs came to the Arians' aid as sentient cavalry.

After the fighting, the Centaurs went back to their territories.

## Identification

A Centaur village can be spotted with their distinct temporary huts called yurts set up, which function as a quick to set up dwelling for them to rest and sleep at. These can be quickly disassembled for when they travel.

A yurt can contain an entire family of four, and depending on the size of the tribe, a village can range from 5 to 30 huts per village. Centaurs are expert trackers, and will use everything from the direction of the clouds, to the wind, to even the stars to course their paths.

If you follow a tribe, you can often be assured that a, trade route, storehouse or outpost will follow as tribes will often circle back to them to trade with Arians. So if one is ever lost they would just need to follow the nearest tribe.

Alongside being able to track, they have also used the clouds to predict the weather, If there was a storm, they would often secure their yurts and attempt to sleep it off.

They believed tornadoes to be angry spirits or the great cloud, and would follow it as well as hide in rivers to protect themselves, adapting to the destructive force.