Editing Arena of Storms (section)

===Minotaurs===
The most advanced and powerful race, the Minotaurs have developed villages, towns, and even a few cities, all of which are called Labyrinths. (Labyrinths are rarely literally such. The name comes from non-Minotaurs, who used it to describe the confusion they felt in the cities, with their tall buildings and winding streets. The Minotaurs took it as a term of pride, a reminder of how more advanced they are.) They have a relatively developed economy among themselves and with other races, which features coin money, trade caravans and records of transactions written in simple pictographs carved into stone, wood or bone. Labyrinths are relatively safe from the natural hazards of the Arena, and Minotaurs will allow non-Minotaurs to live among them, but at a steep price -- the Hornless are taxed so heavily that they are practically slaves. Additionally, Hornless females have no rights and may be raped without consequence, and the bodies of the Hornless are often eaten by the Minotaurs after death. Minotaurs' savage side is further evidenced by their raiding the settlements of other races, mostly looking for more slaves. As if the Minotaurs weren't unpopular enough among the other peoples, their chief god is none other than the God of Storms.

The building block of Minotaur society is the herd, which is led by a bull who has sired at least two adult calves and whose sire is dead as well as his cows and his unwed siblings. A herd will often rule over vassal herds. All members of a Labyrinth are part of the same herd; any Hornless among them are also considered members of it, albeit ones of much lesser status. When the Minotaur race is faced with a great crisis, the chiefs of all the major herds (those with at least one vassal herd) will gather on an island in a volcano's flooded bowl, believed to be the place where the first Minotaurs were created, and engage in ''Nujin'' -- "the breaking of the horns" -- a one-on-one combat tournament to the death, the winner of which is declared the High Chief of the entire Minotaur race until the crisis is resolved, at which point the eldest sons of the chiefs thus killed become the new chiefs of their herds.

Minotaur Namers are different from Namers in other races because they don't actually use the true names of things -- instead, they activate runes inscribed with the true shape of a thing they wish to manipulate, and are thus called Runecasters. A Runecaster typically keeps his collection of runes in a bag called a Bag of Shapes. Once a spell is cast using a rune, it must be given time to "cool off" before it can be re-imbued with mystical power and used again. Particularly powerful spells will shatter their runes when they are cast. As a result of this difference, Runecaster spells always work the same way every time they are invoked -- they're reliable, but very inflexible. Forging a rune is a long and difficult process, so most Runecasters don't have more than one copy of a particular rune.