Centaurs

Centaurs are a mythological creature from Greek legend. A centaur consists of a human head, arms, and torso upon a horse's body. Centaurs are sentient and can speak and write human languages. However, they are very base creatures, prone to lechery, especially when under the influence of alcohol.

Centaurs in Thessalonica
A colony of centaurs who had survived the erosion of the Olympian pantheon lived near Thessalonica in the sixth century. When the Slavs and Avars beseiged that city, the centaurs, persuaded by George and Father Luke that the rise of the Avar pantheon in what had once been their territory represented an even greater threat to their continued survival than Christianity, attacked the Slavic army as it stormed the city, and played a decisive role in breaking the seige.

Centaurs in "The Horse of Bronze"
Centaurs lived in their homeland on the east coast of the Inner Sea. They imported tin from the Tin Isle and battled their traditional enemies, the sphinxes. One day they stopped receiving tin imports from the Nuggies and were unable to forge bronze weapons. This put them at a military disadvantage. After losing a major battle to the Sphinxes as a result of this, the centaurs sent two expeditions: a nautical expedition led by Cheiron to attempt to reestablish contact with the Nuggies, and an overland expedition led by Pholus to seek new sources of tin in the unexplored interior of eastern Europe. Both expeditions failed to secure a tin supply, and worse, both made contact with the Lapiths. Eventually, these Lapiths battled the centaurs, defeated them, nearly drove them to extinction, and claimed the centaurs' homeland for their own, believing they were entitled to it merely because of their inherent superiority to the centaurs.