Ogres
Centaurs
Zoocephales
Giants
Arismaspians
While more similar to men than to beasts, these beings have little in the way of civilization, they are rarely if ever encountered except in the deep wilderness. These beings are reckoned to be Cosmic, not Chaos-tainted, but remnants of a primitive age.
It is said that in the west, on the edge of the world, lies the land of Magog, which is populated and ruled by giantkin. It is also said that of the end of the world, Gog of Magog shall lead an army of giants against all civilized lands.
Ogres are half again as tall as humans, and three times as heavy. Ogres have ridged eyebrows, big noses and thin lips; Their overall facial features resemble human ones, only bigger and cruder. Ogres have muscular, hairy bodies, and tend to be fairly scrawny.
Ogres live in remote places, hills, mountains and deep forests. They have been known to engage in primitive farming, fishing and husbandry. Ogres build crude houses from sod, rock and logs. They do not craft metal, their tools and weapons are either of wood and stone, or stolen from other races.
Centaurs are creatures with the upper bodies like those of humans and the lower body of ponies (actually the entire body of a pony except the head and neck). Larger and stronger than men centaurs are infamous for their taste for alchohol and lechery. Drunk or sober, they are considered the most chaotic and disorderly of all the intelligent races. Centaur males in particular are extremely rowdy.
In the Free Kingdoms centaurs are almost extinct. They live in secluded woodlands, and have been known to steal human livestock. Centaurs will sometimes come to human settlements seeking to slake their appetites for drink and carnality, with disasterous results.
Centaurs are most common in the Cargan empire, where they have been domesticated. Cargan centaurs are hereditary slaves, and are kept and bred much like horses. The Cargans break the centaur will using a regimen of severe punishments and conditional rewards almost from birth. Centaurs are sometimes seen attending on elves, and it is believed that they have a similar, older, practice.
In older times, the centaurs were far more numerous, and fought successfully with men and goblins for dominion of the land. Old songs tell of epic wars between humans and centaurs, and the last of these were fought in recorded history, when the legions of Primarch Augustus II routed The Horde of The Red Hoof and enslaved the survivors.
Grotesque ogres with the heads of beasts. Most well known are the bull-headed bucephales. Zoocephales are similar to ogres in most respects, but even more ferocious and bloodthirsty.
Zoocephales are monsters out of the far west. Once they invaded the area presently known as Clemencia, and some still survive inremote areas of this realm. Most known zoocephales have been inbred in captivity for centuries, a fact that has done little to refine their minds...
Enormous creatures known mainly from tales, and ancient history. Giants are these days found only in the far North and in secluded valleys in high mountains. Most reports of giant encounters are probably meetings with ogres - giants are to ogres as ogres are to men.
Giants are said to be extremely primitive and simple-minded, and are described in human tales as evil and gullible gluttons whom steal food and livestock, and whom will eagerly eat human flesh as well...
However, the great ruins left behind from the time of Giants indicate that more intelligent giants have existed. Giants were more numerous in times past, and they heyday is thought to have been before the coming of humans.
The/A Cyclope is a giant with a single, round eye. In some stories cyclopes are portrayed as more intelligent than giants, in others as even more crude.s.
Tall, one-eyed humanoids, the arismaspians may be cyclopean ogres, or they may be some kind of human race. Little is known of them, and they may be entirely fictious.
Arismaspians are said to live to the far east, mine gold in great quantities, and fight continually against griffons.