Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-32666991-20171021230622/@comment-2602:306:CF8D:4F20:99D:E0B2:37E4:8F1F-20171111104359

2602:306:CF8D:4F20:99D:E0B2:37E4:8F1F wrote: 1) Probably just a human, yeah. Keep in mind that Belharza would have been the grandson of Kynareth (sort of), and further existed at a time when the rules of the world (Earthbones) were more flexible. Some combination of these things must have allowed his children to inherit primarily his features, rather than his partner's.

2) It's possible all minotaurs look like burly buff dudes, I guess? I got nothing aside from that, apart from "maybe the developers didn't think about it, or maybe didn't want to bake up another creature model."

3)  I think, technically speaking, Belharza's father Morihaus was the first Minotaur. He's described as being...Pretty much a normal minotaur, with the added bonus of having wings since he was the literal son of Kynareth.

4) I don't see how that would mean they'd have less intelligence; what little evidence there is suggests Belharza might have actually been abnormally intelligent, and for the first while after the establishment of Alessia's Empire the Minotaurs were the ones who ruled it. This came to an end later on in the First Era when the Alessian Order rose to prominence and, riding a wave of racist nationalism, managed to drive out the minotaur royalty along with the remaining Ayleids. The minotaurs fled into the forests and mountains, and the ayleids went off to Valenwood and integrated with the Bosmer. Responding to my own post to say that it seems that Bethesda had plans to potentially include female minotaurs within the game; there's a "minotaur female test.nif" file that goes unused, seemingly because of modelling issues. Basically, they're not there because of technical difficulties. This said, they could be...Anywhere. The mountains explanation is as good as any.