Centopians

Centopian head

*"Created uncountable turns ago by cruel Elyrian wizards, Centopians were their first try at enchanting animals. They fortunately broke free, and found a remote forest to hide and learn to accept themselves. Having equine instincts and appetites, yet a humain mind as been a true burden for these godfosaken souls.*

 *But time can heal any wound, and now the Centopians are ready to bravely galopp in every field tile of the Square !"*

## Description

Centopians fittingly start the game with **Freed Spirit.** It grants them **sell human**, an ability that is alike *clear forest*, but for humans.

Indeed, always ressentful, they hunt for**human**, that they sometimes tame to perform some tasks they are more suited to accomplish.

It's unclear why Centopians' coat is not the same colour as their elyrian unicorns ancestors... Or rather it's something they are not ready to talk about yet.  Anyhow, they have a **brown and white lower, equine half**. They wear **apple green** clothes on the upper, and **proud long ponytails**.
Their tame humans wear the same green clothes, and a **ponytail tie**.
Centopians' favourite "fruit" is unsurprinsingly **horseradish**.

Their forest looks like dehesa , charming and not too packed with trees. Their fields might display a tree or two as well so they still have some shade after they clear their forest.

Their cities look like the biggest stud farm ever, presumably in a Spanish-Portuguese style matching the forest, with very wide stairs, fit for their stride.

## Resources

+ Forest

- Game

## Special rules

### Freed spirit

Unlocks *temples*, *disband*, and the **sell human ability** that acts just as *clear forest* but for Centopian *game* (and only theirs).

Any tribe can be found, but their value differ : Elyrians are worth 2 stars while other tribes are only worth 1 star.

### Racing

Simply *riding* renamed to match Centopian "rider"'s name.

### Mental health

Centopians struggle with depression, and some of them are unable to fight. For this reason, one unit slot per city is locked permanently. Building a temple in the city solves that.

### Units

Only the **Racer** (*rider*), *ships*, and *catapult* are unchanged. The latter is manned by a particulary obedient tame human.

## Notes

### Strategy

Starting with an ability similar to clear forest and a faster unit sounds like a lot, I guess. However, their terrain being full of forest, they shouldn't be able to move as freely as Oumaji. And their ability to spam unit is badly hampered in early game.

And then selling all of your human game would make the hunting tech temporarily pointless, potentially delaying forestry, etc. You're sure to sell those Elyrian monsters, but most humans won't yield enough to be spoiled that way.

Anyhow, I don't think that would make for a start as strong as Bardur's for example.

### About units

So hopefully they don't start too powerful ; but I'd rather not have them trample everything afterwards either.

It's hard to figure a proper cost for these units, or if that could work at all.

Knights have been made slower, to compensate the greater speed of the whole army. They are quite slow *(try running with a human on your back !)* but given that you start with Freed Spirit, I'd rather have them being worse than their regular counterparts than the reverse, or even equal.

Mounted swordsmen and archers sound painful enough already.

### Misc

A more precise description of their coat would be chestnut skewbald.

Centopians are bald, the ponytails they so proudly wear are made with their own horsehair. Or the owner's in the case of their tame humans.

Freed spirit and enslaving humans may sound paradoxical, but surely this is some cathartic thing. The way to full blossoming remains a long one for Centopians.

Their priests are actually more like therapists, and Centopians often gather in their temples to engage in group therapy, relaxation exercises and such. They unfortunately still tend to be very unstable... Which is why "disbanding" seems so normal to them.

## Other Tribes

If you liked this one, go take a look at the others here : Gradokko