Minotaur

Calamity

> The shape of a huge animal, furious and biped with more than 10 feet tall... originated from the legends of Greek mythology about a terrible monster that inhabits labyrinths.
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The **Minotaur** is a paranormal creature of **Blood** that inhabits labyrinths, manifested from the Greek mythological figure of the Minotaur. This creature is one of the first to have been trapped in a captive species to be studied by paranormal researchers. However, to this day no one knows the exact reasons why someone would arrest this beast and keep it alive somewhere.

Its first appearance was in the 7th episode of Calamity, found at the labyrinth of Domus Aurea by the Escribes, where it was also killed by them.

After, the Panacea Industries planned on using a Minotaur under the codename of "Taurus" to try to destroy a primal Nidere manifestation, but it was not enough.

## Appearance

This creature is extremely similar to the Greek myth: a humanoid and muscular body dressed in a thin layer of hair, imitating a bull, being its head totally in the shape of a bull, with two large bloody horns that extend horizontally. Despite this, its face is more like the carcass of the face of an ox, with uts snout completely absent from skin or flesh, also having the shape of teeth resembling the skeleton of the animal. On top of its face and running along its back is a large brown mane, with this brown part extending to the right side of its body.

Its right part has whitish and pale hair, an arm with sharp claws and two legs that, instead of hooves, has two foots with forked toes with sharp nails. On the part of the other half of its body, the Minotaur is covered by a large infection, with tumors intertwining with large bubbles around, along with large red and pulsating veins. Its left arm is completely deformed by the blood on the part of its forearm which, in place of its hand, is an axe with double blades fused into its bones and flesh.

## Behaviour

When the lever of its labyrinth is found and used, the Minotaur comes out of a pool of blood that appears on the wall and attacks those present. The creature exhibits aggressive behavior, using a charge when it sees several targets lined up in front of it, being very strong and almost unstoppable, trapping one of them in its horns to attack it. When it realizes that its targets are aligned, but in another part of the maze, the Minotaur crosses the wall entering a pool of blood and exits the corridor of its targets.

The Minotaur seeks to impale its victims increasingly on their large horns to shatter and devour them, while using its bestial instinct to navigate its labyrinth. If it is defeated, its head will turn to stone.

In the middle of the maze, on an ancient plaque, is depicted three warriors using different items to attack the Minotaur, one using a ball of wool, one wielding a crystal dagger, and another holding a red cape. The only way to stop the Minotaur is to use the three items shown on the labyrinth tablet.

The Minotaur showed focus and was easily distracted by the red cape, while the dagger, when used on it, caused enough physical damage, disorienting it. The ball of wool, however, was not used in combat, making its purpose unknown.

## Skills

* **Sink Horns:** The Minotaur fires to the end of the corridor in which it is, trying to hit the first target of its path with its horns and running over the others within the area in the process.

* **Blood Pools Teleport:** The Creature enters a pool of blood that forms on the wall, thus returning to the beginning of the place that was manifested, in which case the lever that began the battle against it. The limit of this teleport is unknown.

## Trivia

* This is another paranormal creature in the series based on a real legend, along with Ooze Horse, Cyclops, Sphinx Carrion and Kerberos.
* The Minotaur is the first monster, other than the variation of an existing one, which uses a weapon to attack; this being the axe it carries.

## Gallery

* Arts
* Tokens
* Covers

Plaque depicting people fighting the MinotaurMinotaur on the slides of Panacea Industries' projectsMinotaur's Lineart, by Kael

Minotaur deadMinotaur's head. After its death it becomes partially stoneMinotaur's statue. It was necessary to put its head so that the rest of the dungeon was releasedMinotaur's statue completed with the head

Minotaur's eyes on the cover of "Betrayal"
## References

1. ↑ Its first appearance in Calamity - Episode 7 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h21m16s)
2. ↑ Plaque about the Minotaur in Calamity - Episode 7 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h16m54s)
3. ↑ Red cape in Calamity - Episode 7 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h14m58s)
4. ↑ Dagger in Calamity - Episode 7 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h05m01s)
5. ↑ Calamity - Episode 7 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h26m32s)
6. ↑ Calamity - Episode 7 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h39m31s)
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Calamity - Episode 7 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h25m36s)