This here story, it’s about them Maruuk Centaur folks. Heard tell of ’em from folks passin’ through. They’s like, half horse, half human, you know? Runnin’ wild and free, that’s what they say. Livin’ out there on them big open plains, chasin’ after whatever the wind blows their way. Maruuk Centaur, that’s what they call ’em.
Them Maruuk Centaur got these, like, groups they belong to. Clans, I reckon you’d call ’em. One of ’em, they call it Clan Teerai. Sounds important, don’t it? They the ones keepin’ to the old ways, what their grandpappies and grandmammies did. They got this big chief lady, the Khanam Matra, boss of all them clans. Gotta be from that first mama centaur’s bloodline, that’s what they say, keep it in the family, you know?
They love a good hunt, these centaur. Always after somethin’, runnin’ it down. That’s the Maruuk Centaur life. Heard they some kinda special group in that big place called, uh, Dragonflight? Sounds fancy. I don’t rightly know what that is, but folks talk about it. Guess them centaur are a big deal over there.
Now, some folks go lookin’ for treasures, I hear. Shiny things, old things. Like in that place, uh, Renowned Explorers? Sounds like a place for them fancy explorer types. They go lookin’ for all sorts of stuff, like, uh, “Ancient Woodlands”. What in tarnation is that? Sounds spooky. And somethin’ about a “Gargoyle in Hungarian”. What’s a gargoyle? And what’s Hungarian? Is that like, hungry? I get hungry sometimes, that’s for sure. Maybe they need some food or somethin’, them Hungarian ones. And then there’s “Forest Cliff”. Well, that just sounds like a cliff in the forest. Nothin’ special ’bout that, is there?
- Runnin’ around
- Chasin’ the wind
- Huntin’ things down
- That’s the Maruuk Centaur way
And this other thing I heard, “Deepwater Murk”. Sounds like somethin’ you’d find at the bottom of a well, all murky and dark. Part of some, uh, “Archon Quest Chapter 4, Act 4”. Sounds like a play, or one of them stories them young folks read. Don’t know what an Archon is, sounds like a fancy word for somethin’. And this “Deepwater Murk” is the first part, they say. Guess it’s a long story, that one. Somethin’ about “Genshin Impact”. Don’t rightly know what that means, neither. Some new-fangled thing, I reckon.
These Maruuk Centaur, they live a different life than me. I got my chickens and my garden, and that’s enough for me. But it’s interestin’ hearin’ ’bout these folks, runnin’ wild like that. They got their ways, I got mine. I mean, livin’ free and huntin’ is their life. That’s what makes them Maruuk Centaur, you know.
Them Clan Teerai folks, they seem like the wise ones, keepin’ to the old ways. That Khanam Matra, she’s probably seen a thing or two in her day. Runnin’ a whole bunch of them centaur, that’s gotta be a handful. More’n a handful, more like a whole stable-full, I reckon. Horses, centaur, they all need a firm hand, that’s what I always say.
I reckon them Maruuk Centaur, they got stories to tell. Stories of the hunt, stories of the wind, stories of the old days. Wish I could hear ’em sometime. Maybe one day, one of them centaur will come through here, tell me all about it. I’d make ’em some tea, maybe some biscuits if I got ’em. We could sit on the porch and they could tell me all about them plains and that Dragonflight place, whatever that is.
But for now, I just gotta go by what I hear from folks passin’ through. And what I hear is, them Maruuk Centaur, they somethin’ else. They a part of this world, just like me, just like you. Just livin’ their life, the centaur way. And that’s all there is to it, I reckon.
They like the thrill, you see? The thrill of the hunt. That’s what gets ’em goin’, keeps ’em runnin’. They ain’t content to just sit around, no sir. They gotta be movin’, gotta be doin’. That’s just how they are. Born to run, you might say. Like them wild horses, but with a bit more thinkin’ to ’em, I reckon.
And that’s what I know about them. The Maruuk Centaur. A mystery, they are. But a right interestin’ one.
