Although the Bloodhoof Clan was mainly composed of Minotaurs, Boar People, Mammoth Men, and centaurs.
As the strongest clan to have dominated Turanze for thousands of years, Lion-Tiger people and Jackal Men from the Golden Clan were not uncommon in Black Horn City.
Some were losers in Lineage struggles, brutally exiled and wandering across Turanze, hoping to rise again after falling.
Others were prisoners of clan wars, starting as Gladiators and climbing back up step by step.
There were several Lion Man warriors in the Blood Skull Arena.
As for Lion Man-Minotaur hybrids, they were countless.
The Five Great Clans had no reproductive barriers. They had originally been the same race, merely granted different divine powers by the ancestral spirits and thus displaying different traits.
In fact, even Kassava could not guarantee that every generation of his ancestors had been pure Minotaurs, without a single drop of Lion Man or Tiger Man blood.
For all he knew, the offspring of himself and a purebred Minotaur warrior woman might grow sharp fangs and several tufts of gleaming golden fur—such cases were described in the ancient language of the ancestral spirits as "Gene Mutation," and were perfectly normal.
Yet fur from a Lion Man had fallen from the body of the "Night Demon," who should theoretically have been a ratfolk. Such a "coincidence" could not help but set Kassava's thoughts racing.
He did not think the Night Demon was a native Lion Man of Black Horn City, or a Bloodhoof Warrior with Lion-Tiger blood.
Rather—
"Crimson Gold City is pulling strings from behind the scenes?"
Kassava's gaze abruptly sharpened. He muttered, "So that's it. No wonder this wave of 'Great Horned Rat God's Advent' has kept growing bigger and bigger, even worse than the ratfolk unrest before every previous Era of Glory.