have stiff grey hair and stocky bodies, like mules.
2
have black-and-white stripes like zebras.
3
are stunted like ponies.
4
are slim and pretty like Arabian horses.
5
have long wooly coats like Bashkir Curlies.
6
are huge and heavily-muscled like percherons.
D6
These centaurs are led
1
by a sage who tutoured several human heroes, and came to regret sharing their knowledge.
2
by the high priest of a sky-god, who can gallop on the wind as if it were solid ground.
3
by a dreaming seer who as a filly-child suffered the bite of a magic fly which put her into an endless sleep.
4
by an enchanted, intelligent saddle who has seen thousands of years of war, and has grown quite sick of it.
5
by an apostate knight who once served a militant monastic order in a distant land.
6
by a beat-up and world-wise ex-circus performer.
D6
These centaurs roam
1
wherever they wish, for they hold the whole of the
earth to be their property, an attitude which has won them no friends
and winnowed their numbers.
2
between hills where wild grapes and olives grow, crushing them underhoof into oil and wine.
3
a stretch of the underworld blasted out by harsh winds,
where redwood-thick columns of stone stand in the midst of sharp and
silken sands, and life sprouts in the nutritious surface-blown dust
around tarry seeps from even further down.
4
between forest and bog, chopping and burning down the forest and damming and dredging the bog to eke out an ashen grassland.
5
stone-carved steps and terraces, the fruit of a long conquest of impassable slopes into flat, trottable planes.
6
a plain where they are the undisputed masters thanks to their mobility, taking their pick of tariffs and plunder.
D6
These centaurs fight
1
like horse archers, only they're the horses and archers both.
2
with cannons they pull behind them on chariots, using back-mounted pulleys to aim and reload the cannons.
3
with hoof-mounted blades they kick wildly with.
4
hopped up on dried caterpillars, which make them foam
at the mouth and lose all fear so they can crush their enemies with
their greater mass.
5
with edged atlatl-esque polearms, which allow them to fling javelins with the momentum of their charge and then chop off limbs.
6
only as a last resort - preferring diplomacy, magic,
poison, fleeing, and suchlike - as their horse-parts are delicate &
heal poorly.
D6
These centaurs might be found with
1
straw horns of beans fermenting together with the meat of small animals - a centaur delicacy.
2
the hoof-shoes of fallen comrades, engraved and inlaid and bent to be worn as jewelry.
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