Minotaur
You can't milk those.
A minotaur is a half-man, half-bull, taking the form of a humanoid figure - originally purely human, but adding any combination of fur, a tail and digitigrade hooved legs became popular somewhere around the 80s - with a bull's head. Though at least one artist drew the minotaur as a messed up centaur, with a human head on a hulking bull.
This creature originates in Greek mythology, much like its fellow Medusa. Also like Medusa, "the Minotaur" was the name/title of a unique individual abomination rather than a species. Still also like Medusa, its origin story is pretty weird and fucked up, even by the standards of Greek mythology. The original minotaur, whose title means "the bull of Minos" and whose true name was actually Asterion or Asterius, was born to one Queen Pasiphae. Minos was supposed to sacrifice a white bull to the god Poseidon, but he refused because he took a liking to the majestic creature. As punishment, Poseidon had his wife Pasiphae take a bigger likng, and by "bigger liking" we mean that she had a giant hollow statue constructed so she could consummate her feelings for the bull. After the minotaur was born, Minos was understandably livid that his wife cheated on him with an animal, but killing the bastard wasn't on the list (probably for good reason), so the hybrid was kept in a labyrinth so that ordinary people wouldn't have to look at it.
Naming Traditions
Family names
Minotaur family names come from some major even that their ancestor accomplish. For example, a Minotaur who's grandfather saved a town would be, "who's ancestor saved town Ryloft" The Minotaur shorthand for this title would be "Moorah, Town Saver". This saying is only used in Minotaur circles to avoid confusion from races that don't understand the naming convention.
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