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.

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 entirity 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 stanadalon 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.

Althoug 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, somtimes 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 stil in 836 PD, remaining to be a rumor among the locals.

Centaurs of Tal'Dorei see gnolls as godless cretures.

Wildemount
There was once an elven and centaur society in the Strathfell Forest, 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.

Trivia
During the six-year rule of the Briarwoods above the Parchwood Timberlands, Deliliah experimented with her necromantic powers refashioning remains of different species into unique forms, including one that resembled skeletons versions of centaurs. In 812 PD and still in 836 PD, several small settlements outside Whitestone suffer assaults from these skeletal centaurs and note disappearance of many young bachelors in the region. One among them, a headless stallion-lord named Ichabarr, leads a group of skeleton centaurs called the Herd of the Damned.