Minotaurs

Minotaurs (14.02, 18.26, 27.16, 29.14, 39.32)

Minotaurs, skeletal (39.32)

Minotaurs (the name is irregularly capitalised) are chimerics, creations of Chimalia. The minotaur nation was formerly one of the Twelve Nations, but a couple of generations ago Grumluda, Naros and the merfolk of the Southside Ocean conspired to destroy it. Minotaurs were decreed to be as they were when the world was young - slaves to the orcish Eternal-King in life and fodder to be reanimated in death. What were once minotaur lands were absorbed by the conquerors.

A grouping of minotaurs in a steading is a herd, and the minotaurs of Lastmaze are led by a bull.

Shuttered has signed the Horn Treaty, decreeing all minotaurs to be property of the orcish nation. The bull-like minotaurs were always considered semi-heretical by the church of Alberon, which sacrifices white cattle.

Minotaurs

• Ja of the Red

Places

• Lastmaze (18.02)

• Empty and bricked up embassy

• Blackhorn’s Maze (39.32) was built as an outpost during the Chimerical Siege. Minotaur eyes of fear and flame guard it now.

Connections

• The gnolls “vigorously and with weapons” dispute the minotaur claim that the lands north of Blackhorn’s Maze (39.31) are glazed flat because they were scorched by trailing blood from Tiamat’s severed red head.