Centaur

Powerful and curious, quick to act and knowledgeable of the wider world, centaurs seek to experience life's boundless bounty. Roamers at heart, centaurs love open spaces and the freedom to travel. As much as they can, centaurs run. They race the wind, hooves thundering and tails streaming behind them. Initially residents of the Feywild, centaurs are not ones to settle in permanent homes. Centaurs might be found wherever there are wonders to be witnessed and adventures to be had.

Nature's Cavalry

Centaurs have humanoid upper bodies, displaying all the human variety of skin tones and features. In size, they are comparable to a human rider mounted on a horse, and they fill similar roles—as cavalry, messengers, outriders, and scouts.
Centaurs' ears are slightly pointed, but their faces are more wide and square than those of elves. Below the waist, they have the bodies of horses, with coats tending toward brown shades (chestnut or bay) and darker tails.

Nature and Community

Centaurs have a strong sense of the interconnectedness of the natural world, and they celebrate family and community as microcosms of that greater connection. The birth of a foal is always cause for festivities. At the same time, centaurs revere the traditions of the past, preserving old ways and keeping alive the legends of ancestral heroes. They feel a close kinship with wild animals, perhaps because of their own hybrid nature, and delight in the feeling of running alongside herds and packs of beasts.

Centaur Names

Centaurs' given names are passed down through family lines. The name given to a new foal is typically the name of the most recently deceased family member of the same gender, keeping alive the memory—and, the centaurs believe, some shard of the spirit—of the departed.
Centaurs rarely use family names, but wear symbols that represent their family membership. These symbols might include graphical representations of plants or animals, printed mottos, braids and beads worn in the hair and tail, or even specific patterns of woven fabric. Some centaurs will be given honorifics by their community that pertains to certain traits or accomplishments.
Female Centaur Names: Bido, Daxa, Honotia, Kelitia, Lileo, Meloe, Saya, Tesia
Male Centaur Names: Aughus, Dririos, Eno, Ormasos, Roth, Skelor, Stihl, Volien
Centaur Honorifics: Threekills, Razorhoof, Unsleeping, Daggereye, Silentstep

Centaur Traits

Your centaur character has the following racial traits.
Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Age. Centaurs mature and age at about the same rate as humans.
Alignment. Centaurs are inclined toward neutrality.
Creature Type. Your creature type is fey, rather than humanoid.
Size. Centaurs stand between 6 and 7 feet tall, with their equine bodies reaching about 4 feet at the withers. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 40 feet.
Charge. If you move at least 30 feet straight toward a target and then hit it with a melee weapon attack on the same turn, you can immediately follow that attack with a bonus action, making one attack against the target with your hooves.
Hooves. Your hooves are natural melee weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
Equine Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push or drag. In addition, any climb that requires hands and feet is especially difficult for you because of your equine legs. When you make such a climb, each foot of movement costs you 4 extra feet, instead of the normal 1 extra foot.
Survivor. You have proficiency in one of the following skills: Animal Handling, Medicine, Nature, or Survival.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Sylvan.

Lifespan

Under a century

Average Height

6'0"-7'0"

Average Weight

800-1200 lbs