2nd Age Centaurs

[Itto]

I was flicking though The Players Guide To Glorantha today and was reading about Centaurs and a conversation I had with one of my players about 15 years ago popped into my head. I remember telling him that Centaurs were not natural, but had been created.

Looking through my, less than well ordered, shelves I found my copy Elder Secrets. Doing my best not to look at the artwork, I looked up Centaurs and sure enough the old grey cells had not all been eroded! It says in there that the Centaurs were extinct at The Dawn and had been created by the EWF to help recreate the mythic age sought by the empire. Also that natural ones apparently spontaneously appeared at the end of the 2nd age when Seshnela was sunk.

I'm not raising it for any other reason bar its a cool background and it would be a shame to lose it and goes to show how odd and magical the EWF is.

 

[Sinisalo]

Those are centaurs who are half man half horse. What you are thinking of are taurcens which are half horse half man and were around in 907.

 

[Itto]

Where are Taurcens written about? I'm defently talking about Centaurs as the bit I was reading was under the heading of Centaurs. The thing that seem odd to me though is that it sounds something that the God Learners would get upto rather than the EWF.

 

[captrooper]

I always thought both were true (in reference to the OP) - in the way Gloranthan facts often have more than one truth.

Can you provide a reference for Taurcens please Sinsalo, I'm interested?

 

[Sinisalo]

No I'm taking the mick.

 

[Darran]

No I'm taking the mick.

Sounds good though? :wink:

 

[Osentalka]

Maybe we get a "Beastmen: A Guide to the Hykimi" is the future, which would cover Centaurs, as well as Minotaurs, Satyrs, and the like.

 

[captrooper]

No I'm taking the mick.

LOL. I really should have seen that!