One thing you can do with them to defy expectations is that cows are not, as it happens, all that dumb. They LOOK stupid, yes, but they are actually pretty good at problem solving, as any farmer who has a cow escape can attest.
They have stupid looking faces, so they come off as dumber than they actually are. And we provide them with everything they need/control their environment, so they rarely have to do anything but just exist and be cows.
So have the cow people have a reputation for being dumb as a stereotype, but in actuality they are on par with humans. They are just slow to speak and have unexpressive faces, which make them seem dim.
Justin Perez
The bovine race shuns using leather save that handed down by death. Dead bovines are drained of blood, skinned and tanned, while their bodies are roasted. The family unit gathers and eats their dead, grinding their bones and mixing in the blood to create a blood paste which is mixed into clay to create a clay cenotaph to the dead with his/her deeds and life written on it. Part of the leather wraps this death stone. These are then placed into a secret location of a family 'graveyard'.
Unfortunately, this sacred cannibalism is one of the causes of the minotaur illness. An infected body can infect others. Thus a minotaur is cremated to ash, and thus forgotten by all.
The other leather is made into items to help others. Old leather is rough, but still usable in some ceremonial items.
A strong big race would most likely use that strength to its advantage, preferring heavy weaponry. Armor may vary, but again the proscription on leather is limiting.
Aiden Gray
THE HOUR DRAWS NEAR.
PRAISE THE GOD-PHAROH, MAY HE RETURN SWIFTLY AND WE BE FOUND WORTHY.
Ian Torres
>Unfortunately, this sacred cannibalism is one of the causes of the minotaur illness. An infected body can infect others. Thus a minotaur is cremated to ash, and thus forgotten by all.
May I use this for the Aurus priest caste as a form of cultural control?
Easton Flores
You know you can make leather from things other than cows, right? We just mostly use cow leather because we are slaughtering them in mass anyway so we have skin to spare.
Horse or deer leather are just fine for most purposes.
Ayden Price
Shun these horrible men and their false and heathen gods, Divine are only the Celestial for none can match their glory! Shun these men who demand worth! We are but the weakest in their light in time before Dawn and that after Dusk! Be gone heretic before we gore you.
Carter Martin
Most folks think Burdens are slow, or stupid because they are thoughtful. Nothing could be further from the truth. Burdens have adapted the mystic script of their mage creators into their own mundane script. Casters of the race focus on internal magic, and the religious devotion and cleanliness shows an uncommon amount of paladins.
Most Burden spellcasters are trained in a mentor-student relationship handed down. Spellcasters have the right to take promising children. Spellcasters collect the spells and works of their dead and claim their leathers to make a unique spellbook for their honored dead, which is stored among others in a separate mage's crypt used to teach others.
Chase Morgan
Use any and all weaker races to your whim, for they are not worthy to bask in the divine.
Camden Hall
Yeah, that's fine.
True, but I mostly meant cow leather. There may be religious proscription for priests or others for ALL leather, just as those who handle the dead would have no such proscriptions.
Juan Stewart
Is there a schism between storytellers/wisemen and those who focus on ethereal magics?
