Taureau Queen
The Taureau Queen is a legendary figure that haunts the wilds of Mini Soda. Standing over nine feet tall, draped in long white robes with flowing black hair, her face and head concealed behind a massive bleached white bull skull, she appears silently at the edges of campfires and abducts those too slow to flee. No one has observed her for more than a few moments before running, and the fate of her victims is entirely unknown.
What makes the Taureau Queen particularly unsettling is the silence. She does not speak, does not growl, does not make any sound at all. The air around her goes still, as if sound itself refuses to exist in her presence. She moves in giant, loping steps that cover ground faster than a person can run, and she is simply there, at the edge of the firelight, where a moment before there was nothing. The Furriers who work the northern woods know she is real. They do not argue about it. They build their fires large, keep their camps alert, and do not linger when the night goes quiet.
No one knows what the Taureau Queen is. Some believe she predates the Fall, a spiritual remnant of the peoples who lived in Mini Soda before the world ended. Others theorize she is a Natural One shaman who has chosen the deep woods over civilization. A third school of thought holds that she is an avenging spirit of those swallowed by the wilds, the bull skull a death mask and a warning. No theory has been confirmed, because no one who has gotten close enough to learn the truth has come back to share it.
What makes the Taureau Queen particularly unsettling is the silence. She does not speak, does not growl, does not make any sound at all. The air around her goes still, as if sound itself refuses to exist in her presence. She moves in giant, loping steps that cover ground faster than a person can run, and she is simply there, at the edge of the firelight, where a moment before there was nothing. The Furriers who work the northern woods know she is real. They do not argue about it. They build their fires large, keep their camps alert, and do not linger when the night goes quiet.
No one knows what the Taureau Queen is. Some believe she predates the Fall, a spiritual remnant of the peoples who lived in Mini Soda before the world ended. Others theorize she is a Natural One shaman who has chosen the deep woods over civilization. A third school of thought holds that she is an avenging spirit of those swallowed by the wilds, the bull skull a death mask and a warning. No theory has been confirmed, because no one who has gotten close enough to learn the truth has come back to share it.
Civilization and Culture
History
Stories of the Taureau Queen predate living memory in Mini Soda. The Furriers who trap the northern woods have reported sightings for generations, always the same description: nine feet tall, white robes, black hair, massive bleached bull skull. She appears at the edges of campfires and takes those who do not run. Whether she has existed since before the Fall or is a more recent phenomenon, no one can say with certainty. The absence of any returning victim means the only evidence is from those who fled in time, and fear has a way of distorting details. What is not distorted is the consistency of the accounts across decades and distances. Something is out there.
A nine-foot apparition in white robes and a bull skull, haunting the wilds of Mini Soda.
Type
cryptid
