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Most minotaurs are born to two minotaur parents (as might be expected) but a rare few are born to human parents as the result of a curse. Offspring are raised by the parent of the same gender. Minotaurs live in tribes, which compete with one another. These conflicts often turn violent, with the losing tribe either being forced to flee the area or with its survivors being absorbed into the winning tribe.
Their natural cunning means they never get lost. As a result, they prefer to lair in mazes—whether natural or artificial—as this terrain gives them an advantage over the intelligent creatures that are their preferred prey. They will work to alter their domains so they better suit their needs.
Most revere Lamashtu, although a few worship Rovagug. Increasing numbers are turning to worship of the demon lord Baphomet, who is one of Lamashtu's consorts.
They pity domesticated beasts of burden, and free them where they can (or kill them if freeing them proves impossible). Minotaurs who have been shamed are made to serve as pack animals to atone for their crimes.
Physical Description
A minotaur combines the features of human and bull, with the build and musculature of a hulking humanoid, but with cloven hooves, a bovine tail, and, most distinctive of all, a bull's head. Fur covers a minotaur's upper body, coarse and thick on the head and neck, gradually thinning around the shoulders until it becomes humanlike hair over the arms and upper torso. The thick hair turns shaggy once more at the minotaur's waist and thickens around the loins and legs, with tufts at the end of the tail and around the powerful hooves. Minotaurs take pride in their horns, the sharpness, size, and color of which are related to an individual's place in minotaur 'society'. Fur and skin coloring runs from albino white to coal black, though most minotaurs have red or brown fur and hair.
Minotaurs are large, ferocious, bull-headed monstrous humanoids. According to legend, in the distant past before Earthfall, Lamashtu gifted the Azlant people of Tulo with the birth of a two headed calf. The people were horrified, and killed the creature. Shortly afterwards, the women of Tulo all gave birth to minotaurs. At first they raised these minotaur children, but when in later years they had further “normal” offspring they shut up the minotaurs in a maze and forgot about them. Ten years later, 'the fully grown minotaurs escaped from the maze and massacred the people of Tulo.
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