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Centaur

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Centaur

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Traditional Traditional creatures Six-limbed

Reference: Centaur

Six limbs without any wings involved — and a second problem the winged creatures do not have: it appears to carry two ribcages, and therefore two sets of lungs.

Scored on every axis

AxisThis creature
Limbs Six — four legs plus two arms
Wings None
Respiration Lungs — and a second thorax
Vision Human, forward-facing
Skeleton Endoskeleton (bone)
Body heat Endotherm

The doubled torso

A centaur is a complete horse with a human torso where the neck should be. Counting limbs gives four legs plus two arms: six, the same violation as the dragon, reached without wings.

The structure also implies two thoracic cavities — the horse’s chest and the human one above it — which means two ribcages, plausibly two sets of lungs, and a circulatory arrangement with no analogue in any vertebrate. The octopus runs three hearts, so multiple pumps are not impossible in principle; but the octopus is built around that from the start rather than having a second chest stacked on a first.

Where the digestive tract begins and ends is left unresolved by the tradition, and this catalogue will not invent an answer it does not have.

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