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	~~<WIP>~~		Minotaurs are an unusual race of giants, being huge, amply armed, and strong of body and mind. Minotaurs are considered the larger cousins of the Kaxxi and Deerfolk, due to the faint visual similarity. Minotaurs have a reputation for being as brutal and dominating as gnolls, with a known trait among them being their cultural desire for dominance in both males and females. As a result, many minotaurs are looked upon with more apprehension than even the Kaxxi, but are tolerated due to their propensity to work in large families living together as formidable, intelligent for-hire workforces for a wide range of basic physical tasks ranging from building, transport, security, fighting, or even artists and specialized artisans.

			If orcs can be said to be born warriors than minotaurs can be considered born soldiers. All minotaurs, from the weakest and frailest artisan to the oldest and venerable ancient are capable fighters and prepared for battle at a moment's notice. Minotaurs do not believe that they go to heaven, hel, or the dark forest upon death and universally believe that those who die honorably will be reincarnated, with the most noble deaths leading to reincarnations as samurai. Because of this unshaking belief minotaurs are fearless fighters who see death as nothing more than temporary reprieve from a life of conflict and are more than willing to throw themselves upon their swords if honor or their daimyo demands it. However, death is rather uncommon given how stubborn and capable minotaurs are as soldiers, not to mention how quickly a minotaur can flee on hoof if their forces are routed. Being the fastest race in the world while stampeding minotaurs are first in and first out of a fight.

			Though a warrior culture at heart, minotaurs are far from a single note. A minotaur is expected to continue to learn and cultivate skills and talents throughout their entire life, with artistic and humble crafts seen as the apex of choice, in particular for minotaur who are samurai. Many minotaurs thus become tailors, painters, musicians, and game masters ranging from card, board, and gambling games. Skills at a particular craft or game is all but required. Many minotaurs who have the time or discipline pursue intellectual matters by reading and writing books or poetry, with haikus in particular being a popular past time. A minotaur who can make haikus on the spot or have well known and quite memorable ones are often quite lauded by their fellows.

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	* ~~Stat 1~~		* Auroch minotaurs have +10 robustness and toughness and -5 cognition.
	* ~~Stat 2~~		* Bovine minotaurs have +10 toughess, +10 biology, and -5 mechanical.
	* ~~Perks~~		* The yokai minotaur known as the yak have +15 robustness and tough and -5 biology, mechanical, and cognition.
			* All minotaurs have the ability to stampede, increasing their already high speed even further. Auroch and bovine minotaurs can bullrush enemies, grapping them from further away and at a higher tier grapple tha normal. Yaks lose their coordinated grapples for the ability withstand any amount of pain or bodily damage without slowing or weakening for a short time.

	==Biology==		==Biology==
			Minotaurs are a large sized race of cow and bull like humanoids gifted with strong lithe bodies suited for battle. While generally humanoid in shape, minotaurs differ by having heads dominated by large horns, bovine tails, and hooved feet with bodies covered in fur. While stockier than humans, minotaurs are not as broad as ogres, their bodies much more suited for speed than purely strength. Minotaurs are naturally strong, where as other races will atrophy in muscles over time to drop even below their baseline, minotaurs naturally produce a protein and steroid when digesting any form of food. This means that even minotaurs who live inactive and sedentary lifestyles will still be quite strong and physically fit, though far below what a physically active minotaur would, as long as they continue to eat regular meals. The physical speed of minotaurs is an aspect they are best known for, being able to move swiftly when charging and having exceptional hand-eye coordination. While lacking in the precision skills that a rodentfolk or goblin would have in minuet precision minotaurs make up for it by exceptional reflexes. Minotaurs have a highly developed sense of kinetics and spatial awareness, this trait making them exceptional wrestlers, combatants, and highly suited for tasks requiring fast movements.

	==Culture==		==Culture==
			Minotaur culture is a strange concept, as minotaurs do not share many of the similarities found in other nations. A striking difference between other people often stems from their island home nation that minotaurs had long since conquered by waging extermination campaigns on the dangerous predators that had once threatened the legions people. This had, or should have, given the minotaur and deerfolk people a golden age of peace. Yet without the struggle of survival and a prevailing conflict, minotaur clans began to turn inwards and fight with each other. Much of early minotaur history is measured by great conflicts and violent wars rather than any measure of real time. Battles and rivalries lasting centuries of skirmishes, violence, and short lived peace until one ruling lord formed the fighting force that would later gain complete control of their island nation. Known as the Steel Legion, this fighting force of a thousand men armed with the first steel forged weapons began a brutal and bloody campaign to bend all other warlords to their will or die in resistance.

			With unification, a relative peace came, with war becoming a more ordered affair under a dictatorship known as the shogunate. Local lords controlling various territories are driven by instinct and goading of the shogun towards infighting, though the nature of this conflict is less open war and more one of armed men paid to fight in battles away from civilians to avoid the destruction of valuable resources and industry. Minotaurs make a big show of honor and their code of ethics, known as bushido, but few actually believe in this in private. Minotaurs are pragmatic people who will do whatever it takes to win, even if it means lying, cheating, stealing, or using underhanded tactics. That does not mean that they are without honor. Minotaurs must maintain a public face that follows the code of ethics to avoid dishonor, as to become dishonored is a swift way to be exiled or killed. As minotaurs believe in reincarnation, they do not see any true loss in death, being utterly fearless in the face of danger. While this fearless approach to death is generally only found in samurai, this aspect tends to unnerve other races, in particular those who learn that minotaurs will ritualistically kill themselves when ordered to redeem themselves or do so preemptively to avoid dishonor entirely. This prevailing nature is one of the most important controlling factors of corruption of minotaurs, as many will choose to remain honorable to avoid the punishment of self inflicted death and thus forced to return to the cycle of reincarnation. Pragmatism among minotaurs thusly often remains rather moral, as to be corrupt is to incur death, a far more brutal and direct application of justice than other races who would otherwise tolerate far more with far less severe punishment.

			While minotaur culture is one steeped in dominance, be it of the self, the soul, or the world around them, this nature is channeled in a far more ordered structure than something like an equally aggressive race like gnolls would have. Minotaurs <b>require</b> self discipline in all matters regardless of what they are doing. Work, training, even leisure activities and vice must be regimented and given a minotaurs entire focus. They are loathe to remain at rest, even when setting time aside to do so. It is not unusual for a minotaur to plan his or her entire week by writing a schedule that plans out when they work, when they relax, what they relax with, or even when they shall get drunk and how long they shall remain so, even accounting for their elapsed time for a hangover. For all their physical abilities and desire for control, minotaurs respect order, hierarchy, and structure within their lives. As natural authoritarians, minotaurs are maintainers of peace and status quo and keepers of order. The island of the Steel Legion is, without any doubt, the safest place in all of the known world as a result. People do not need to carry weapons, because danger is simply not the way of life it is everywhere else. When conflicts and crime arise, it is swiftly dealt with, when a man feels so wronged that his debt must be paid for in blood, even this is an ordered affair by the purchasing of the services of samurai who will handle the matter before the courts through the spilling of blood.

			Minotaurs cannot stand disorder and it is one of the reasons that the shogun took an immediate liking to both the Onokrin Empire and Warren Federation before forming a peaceful alliance, as the empire shared the concepts of honor, discipline, and sacrifice and the federation meets with an equally authoritarian approach that the legion maintains. Minotaurs also shared a level of religiosity that other races do, though their interpretation of faith is wildly different than most races. The trinity of Baitaal, Ravendara, and Xaal are treated as the three great kami, whose lesser spirits make up hundreds of thousands of demi-gods, lesser gods, daemons, and spirits whom capricious natures must be kept at bay through the rituals and offerings at various shrines, maintained by a caste of priests, priestesses, and temple guardians who dedicate their lives towards appeasing or combating the yokai as needed. As minotaurs do not believe themselves subject to an afterlife, the relationship they take with the great kami is more business-like and adversarial. They understand that these gods are powerful and more than willing to intervene with mortals, but rather than worship them out of faith, they do so out of duty, with a vast majority of minotaurs paying sole homage to Baitaal and lip service to the other two. Once again, even spiritual matters are approached based on pragmatism rather than how other races choose to approach faith.

	==Mentality==		==Mentality==
			The mentality of a minotaur is quite simple. Order, discipline, self control. To sum up the simplicity of the matter. Minotaurs believe their are only four paths in life, that of the priest, the magistrate, the farmer, or the artist. This path that they choose is one in which they will move towards with the steadfast and implacable direction of an arrow. It will rarely ever be blown off course or miss its mark. Dominance within their field is seen as a must. If they are a priest, they must be the most devout and the most learned. If they are the magistrate, they must rule with perfection, with skill, they must be a statesmen whom others seek for guidance and whose leadership is irreplaceable. If they become an artist, they must be the best, they must make art which touches the souls and moves the most immovable of hearts. Even the humble path of the farmer must be approach the same, they most have the most beautiful of fields, the most productive and best tasting produce, the healthiest of animals, the most pristine and ordered gardens and paddies. Minotaurs do not consider the idea of a half measured half ass'd approach to anything. They must be the best, at everything they choose to do, no matter how humble or minuscule the task.

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