Centaurs

Centaurs are magical creatures with the upper torsos of humans and the lower bodies of horses. Centaurs congregate in groves, where they form complex societies away from humans. They are easily angered (owing to their beast-like nature), and distrustful of humans. This is because centaur young are often poached by human hunters to be raised in captivity, as a consequence of this, centaur populations in Yntheria have been in decline during the last age.

Life Cycle
Centaurs are born looking like normal foals or colts whose colouration often matches one of their parent's horse-halfs. Unlike normal horses, however, they possess human-like intellect and are capable of speaking and learning language. They also have human teeth.

Once the foal or colt reaches puberty, grown centaurs in their community can perform a magical ritual which will cause the head of the centaur to split open and allow the human torso of the adolescent centaur to emerge, thus allowing them to become true centaurs.

Unfortunately, centaur children are a sought after commodity among humans, where they are thought to make superior mounts if properly trained and cared for due to their intelligence and swiftness.

Encounters
While searching for hags in the forest near the village of Two Streams, the party was hailed by a centaur named Ulfric seeking aid. His child had been taken by a Shambling Mound and was being asphyxiated. After a brutal combat with at least one casualty, the party managed to save the centaur child, Yalash, though at great cost. The child lead the grief-stricken party back to the centaur's grove, located around a pond consecrated to Shial, and there met with two adult centaurs and many centaur children. The adults, Ura and her brother Jenan, offered the party a place to rest for the night, as they would have to wait for the next morning to retrieve the body of their fallen comrade.