The Minotaur's of Kree

The Minotaur's of Kree are though to be the ferocious fighters in all the Emerald Isles, known to be able to take on five trained warriors at one time. Their battle skill is only matched by their ability to traverse the seas in the uquie long boats that are able to hold their weight and still be able to move quickly across the green seas.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Minotaurs are large, muscular humanoids. They have the head of a bull, upper torso, hands, and the body of a human, and hooved feet. Their fur and wild hair typically ranged from brown to black. The fur often covered forearms, chest, abdomen, and legs. Males were referred to as bulls and reached up to 9 feet in height, while females – cows, were similar in appearance, with broader hips, humanoid breasts, and reached only 7 feet.
Minotaur bodies were of similar shape and build to that of an ogre. Their hands are huge and strong, ending in thick sharp yellow nails. Minotaurs were known to use claws in battle, but they were brittle and did not survive heavy use. Despite their heads being that of a bull, there were subtle differences in features between mundane beasts and minotaurs. Some were known to have cow-like tails; however, that trait was not common. Their snouts were thicker and longer than that of an animal, and bull-men had sharp carnivore teeth. Their canines were especially noticeable, and minotaurs never hesitated to bite their victims, prey, and opponents. Lastly, unlike bovines, minotaurs' eyes were positioned closer to the center of their faces, granting them good depth perception and another telltale evidence of their predatory nature.
The creatures' iconic feature – their horns – were very similar to normal bulls', slightly curving forward. Both males and females had similarly shaped huge horns. However, males' were longer and thicker on average. There were several horn coloring variations, and sometimes as many as three colors could be present. Minotaurs with dark fur often had dark yellow or brown horns. The shortest horns were around 1 foot and could reach up to three times that length.

Additional Information

Average Intelligence

Average to high

Civilization and Culture

Major Organizations

The only organization that they belong to is the Laughing Coffin Fleet, however there are Minotaur that have joined other settlements in the Emerald islands and even the Crimson brotherhood.

Average Technological Level

The Minotaur of Kree have developed their own magic which they inscribe on the base of their horns. These runes are said to give the individual great power, from feats of strength to breathing underwater, however this magic is highly guarded by the Minotaurs and is only know by their shamans.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

The minitours often spoke giant, abyssal and common.

Common Dress Code

Usually the males would wear a loin cloth of short cut pants with no shirt or a short cut shirt. Often one would encounter a Minotaur of Kree wear no less than three weapons.

History

The minotaur of the Emerald Isles can trace their heritage to the descents of an ancient line that came to the isles two millennium ago. This ancient line know as Kong Kreed settled on a large island in the northern part of the Emerald Isles and named their homeland Kree . For the next two thousand years they enjoyed prosperity and technology advancement , which they applied to their desire to explore on the open sea. They quickly became masters of the sea, befriending neighboring civilizations and conquering those who stood in their way. They shared their ship building techniques with cities such as Sasserine and Steelforge.
In the year 745 they were attacked by the Alu'Tel'Quessir , the war lasted nearly 37 years which both side took devastating loses, however it was the the island of Kree that felt the lose more than anything. The year was 781, when the bloodily battle of Kree was over, the city left in ruins, the bodies left to rot, the river of strength left red and its people left fleeing to the southern isles. The Minotaur of Kree were not done fighting, they honed their skills, sharped their blades and horns and began to plot the next move.
The next few hundred years the minotaur that had escaped and fled south adopted the life of piracy, soon becoming know as the Laughing Coffin Fleet . Their numbers swelled as other races joined their ranks and in the year 1034 they started to wage a different war with the Alu'Tel'Quessir, a war of sabotage, deceit and guerrilla warfare. This went on for several decades as they struck back against their oppressors, until in 1163 they joined the Crimson Brotherhood in an assassination plot. With the leaders of their enemies now dead and the The Hold of the Sea Princes in disarray the minotaurs of Kree continued their new found occupation of piracy from their new home of Fjorld Islands

Lifespan

200 years

Average Height

Males – 9 feet Females – 7 ft

Average Weight

700 lbs

Geographic Distribution

• Fjorld Islands