Centaur

Centaurs are creatures with the lower body of a horse and the torso, arms, and head of a humanoid. In Exandria, they are related to elves, and sometimes build joint societies with them.

Description
Centaurs in the Fey Realm had a pale gray tattooed with marks along their torso and shoulders in a swirling designs. Their hair is long, tangled, and wavy black and dark brown in coloration. Their eyes are black and pupil-less. They wear strips of hide armor.

History
While most elves survived the Calamity by retreating to the Feywild, the Horselords of Lapithas was the one elven clan that stayed in Exandria and Gruumsh alongside Corellon. They rode to battle the battalions of the Betrayer God but they fell. When Corellon stabbed Gruumsh through one eye, the wound released a burst of magic that destroyed the clan in its entirety and merged the elven bodies with the bodies of their dead steeds. Out of gratitude for their loyalty, Corellon resurrected them as centaurs who eight centuries later view themselves as stanadalone people, separate to the elven culture.

Society
Centaurs in Exandria are zealous worshipers of Corellon, believing the Archeart to be their creator. Centaurs and orcs share an origin story, both being created during the conflict between the Corellon and Gruumsh.

Tal'Dorei
The centaurs of Tal'Dorei primarily live in the Dividing Plains, gathering every ten years in an event called the Herdsmeet at the Throne of the Archeart, the supposed site of their race's creation. At the Herdsmeet the centaurs pay homage to the Archeart and discuss tribal matters with each other. The tribes of the Dividing Plains are somewhat scornful of the elves of Syngorn, still holding a grudge regarding their escape to the Feywild during the Calamity.

Although many centaurs and orcs of the Dividing Plains recognize their kinship, both sharing an origin of creation, their feelings range from intense affection to equally intense hatred, sometimes balancing into simple indifference. The circumstances of their lives set their mutual attitude, though their kinship brings them into frequent contact either way.

There are a small and insular tribe of centaurs in the south of the Parchwood Timberlands, rarely coming in contact with the settlements of the region and, in 812 PD and still in 836 PD, remaining to be a rumor among the locals.

Centaurs of Tal'Dorei see gnolls as godless creatures.

Wildemount
There was once an elven and centaur society in the Strathfell Forest of Wildemount, in the north of the Tooth of Zehir. It was destroyed by the invasion of Karkethzerethzerus, a shadow dragon who petrified the forest with energies from the Shadowfell, but a few centaurs survived. As of 835 PD their descendants were still fighting back, hoping to reclaim their ancestral home.

Feywild
Centaurs are also known to exist within the Feywild, such as a herd of grey-skinned centaurs that dwell within the Sablecast Grounds.

Trivia
During the six-year rule of the Briarwoods over the Parchwood Timberlands, Deliliah experimented with her necromantic powers refashioning remains of different species into unique forms and reviving us undead creatures, including one that resembled skeletons versions of centaurs. In 812 PD and still in 836 PD, hordes of skeletal centaurs assault several small settlements outside Whitestone and cause disappearance of many young bachelors in the region. One such horde is called the Herd of the Damned and led by a headless stallion-lord named Ichabarr.