Minotaurs are one of the major ancestries found on Kishar.
Appearance
Minotaurs are tall and stocky humanoids with the head, horns, and cloven legs of bovines. Some but not all have tails. They can reach up to nine feet tall but most are around seven. Brown and black fur is the most common, while red and white are rarer but not unknown.
Location
The most ancient of minotaur legends place their homeland around the Dragonpeak River in far-western Viridia, stories confirmed by the discoveries of antiquarians and other scholars, yet they are today best associated with Magnia, where many of their tribes still live. Over the millennia they established communities as far west as Whale Bay, with a particularly large concentration around the Galevo River. As many find it difficult to compete in the fast-paced, human-dominated world of central and southern Hellea, in more recent centuries many minotaur tribes have taken the Asterian Trail to the northern side of the Sentinel Peaks where they have founded new, thriving settlements.
Though smaller numbers have found their way around the Three Great Seas, most minotaurs still live either in or in close proximity to Hellea.
Culture
Minotaurs possess a traditional affinity for masonry, with many training for years to become skilled carvers, architects, and builders of great settlements, temples, and monuments.
Lifespan
Minotaurs are longer-lived than most other ancestries on Kishar, and can not uncommonly reach the age of 250.