Centaurs

There are three types of centaurs -- land centaurs, pterocentaurs, and mercentaurs. Land centaurs are normal centaurs -- horse bodies, human torsos. Pterocentaurs are centaurs with wings sprouting from their equine shoulders. Mercentaurs have two forms -- a land form and a fin form. In land form, they look like a normal land centaur, although their coloring is usually strange -- often similar to a maricorn's coloring. In fin form, their equine bodies are those of a maricorn, and their human torsos don't change except that they can breathe and 'path underwater.

Magical abilities vary. Centaurs are highly intelligent, with a love of knowledge that borders on reverence. Most land centaurs tend to have fierce tempers and war-like natures, usually running in tribal herds centered around battle. Pterocentaurs are sometimes warriors, sometimes scholars, but very often mages, more level-headed than their wingless counterparts. Mercentaurs are the most passive of all the centaurs, for the most part, though there are exceptions. They have strong healing capabilities and are exceedingly intelligent, patient, and very even-tempered. They are healers, scholars, and teachers.

The average centaur is fifteen hands high at the withers (roughly five feet), and the human torso adds two and a half to three feet, making the average centaur eight to twelve feet tall. Fifteen hands is the size of a light breed horse; draft breed centaurs would be roughly seventeen to eighteen hands high, with a taller and broader human portion as well, and would probably be another foot or so taller.