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* Some depictions of Cernunnos, the [[Celtic Mythology|Celtic]] god of fertility are like this; with a deer's body, a man's torso and arms, and a stag head and horns.
* Possibly the Nucklavee from Scottish Mythology, one of the fey folk who appeared as a skinless man fused onto a horse's back.. http://bogleech.com/nuckelavee.html
* Scorpion-people appear in some Akkadian myths, including ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh]]''.
* Islam has one of these too: Buraq, a white horse or mule with wings on its sides, and in some interpretations human head, who transported the Prophet Muḥammad to "farthest mosque" and after a prayer there, to heaven.
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** Human/Lion: Wemic, Lamia (in older editions)
** Drow/Spider: Drider
** The interplanar Zelekhut, a (winged) clockwork centaur, "charged with hunting down those who would deny justice".▼
** Basic D&D had the winged pegataur (pegasus plus centaur), the chevall (could shapechange between horse and centaur forms), nuckalavee (transparent skin) and the manscorpion, aka Tlinkallis (Human top half, scorpion lower body).
*** And humans aren't the only ones combined with scorpions. Since ''[[Eberron]]'''s [[Our Elves Are Better|Drow are different]], they have the Scorrow.
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** 2E had centaur-kin: dorvesh (dwarf plus donkey), gnoat (gnome plus goat), ha'pony (halfling plus pony) and zebranaur (human plus zebra). And I swear I'm not making this up.
** 2E also had the manotaur (human plus bull)
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** From ''3.5E Monster Manual 3''; the Dracotaur (doesn't have the upper body of a human, but a humanoid torso coming up from the lower body of a wingless dragon) and the Quaraphon (a squat, muscular centaur with lumpy blue skin, elephant's feet, and two mouths and four eyes randomly placed on its face... Don't look up the picture, you don't wanna know.)
** 4E has the Drakkoths, which a weird mixture of crested lizardman upper torso (with [[Non Mammalian Mammaries]] for the females) on the body of some sort of spiny-tailed drake.
** And just in case that's not enough, there's a "tauric" template for 3.5 that can be applied to combine still more critters with humanoids, centaur-style.
** 3rd Edition ''Creature Collection'': The Proud (lion bottom, human trunk, lion head), Marrow Knight (skeletal undead), Sandmasker (scorpion/human).
** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has Hybsil in some forests.
*** Manscorpions are known as "tlincalli" on ''Maztica'' (continent with its own sub-setting) and are commonly called "stingers" by Faerûnians. In 3e they appear on Faerûn, because Amnians' "discovery" of the continent gave them ideas, so they invaded back via Underdark in 1374 DR.
** ''[[Planescape]]''
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*** Armanite (demonic pale centaur with horns) - lesser tanar'ri.
*** Buraq (horse with human faces and peacock tails) - [[Neutral Good]] creatures of upper planes who can walk on air and occasionally serve to holy warriors as steeds and advisors.
** ''[[Spelljammer]]''
*** Neogi (spider body + snake neck and head).
*** Dracon (cow-sized brontosaur body + humanoid torso with dragon-like head) - goofy and very social beings who tend to venerate dragons and be absurdly bad at identifying non-scaled races. An optional PC race.
*** Monitors are pegataur (or winged centaur) paladins <small>IN SPACE</small>.
* ''[[Pathfinder]]'' has classic centaurs, several variations of lamia, and girtablillu (scorpion-centaurs inspired by Mesopotamian myth). The ''Legacy of Fire'' adventure path has buraq (winged mules with human faces).
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