Now you do too
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Several fantasies just give em required secondary powers. Griffins use wind magic. Dragons use some form of antigravity or flight magic.
Iirc in Stormlight, the … gigafauna?(Googles and finds it has been cooked for how I want to use it…huh) have gems in them that allows em to sorta reduce gravity in order for them to be able to survive at such a size (the planet also has lower gravity than earth,at 0.7G)
Sure sure sure. But if we’re running back to the “shut up, it’s magic” premise, centaurs (and mermaids and owlbears) don’t seem so weird, either
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Horses legs are mostly fingers.
Horses hoofs are mostly nails
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Noodle arms
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I think it depends partially on where it sits on the centaur scale.
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I always imagined them doing the Naruto run majestically across the plains.
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They fire bows.
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This is just another reminder how weird a centaur is as a concept. Vertebrates don’t have more than 4 limbs. Land vertebrates mostly have 4 legs, but the structure of their forelegs is very similar to human arms and wrists. Bats have wings, but their wings are basically arms with a membrane of skin between the bones. Even a Naga (human / snake hybrid) makes more sense than a centaur.
Also, think how unbalanced a centaur would be. Instead of a trunk that merely has to support a neck and a head, a centaur has to support a full half-human right at the front of its body. That would shift the centre of mass way forward, so most of the weight would be on the middle limbs. That would affect its ability to gallop, because in a gallop most of the running power of a horse comes from the back legs. If the back legs are almost completely unloaded because all the weight is at the front, the back legs wouldn’t be able to push with much force.
A more realistic centaur would have the trunk weight shifted backwards, so instead of having a human torso replacing its neck and head, it would be like a rider on a horse but without the rider’s legs or the horse’s head.
Some vertebrates, even some HUMANS, have more than four limbs.
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The company violated those terms, not OP.
“i didn’t kill that guy, i just asked a hitman to do it”
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one hand on the hip, the other held above their eyes as they gaze longingly into the distance
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That just raises the question about how big a human torso would be mounted on a modern horse’s torso. A huge clydesdale mare with a typical jockey’s torso would look pretty ridiculous. But, maybe a clydesdale-type-centaur would have an Andre-the-giant torso, or maybe something even bigger. Maybe it would be a humanoid torso which, if it had legs, would stand 4m tall.
But, even if it is an Andre the Giant head, imagine how much grass he’s going to have to eat to keep his body fed. Andre has a big mouth compared to me, but it’s still small compared to a horse.
i mean they’d presumably eat normal food, just also snacking on vegetation whenever they can as well
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Some vertebrates, even some HUMANS, have more than four limbs.
clearly nonfunctional, though
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“i didn’t kill that guy, i just asked a hitman to do it”
So by that same logic, you don’t own a phone or a computer because they abuse child labour to make the chips. Why are you on lemmy then? Exploiting children indirectly is way worse than violating copyrights indirecty.
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i mean they’d presumably eat normal food, just also snacking on vegetation whenever they can as well
Normal horse food? Their digestive system is presumably in the horse part, right?
