Aggressive, feral Minotaur are found in Cyrodiil and Skyrim. However, the majority of Minotaur remained hidden and were promised by Saint Alessia that they would one day regain their rightful place. Emperor Valdr Septim returned citizenship to Minotaur, and they joined Man and Mer as equals.

• Before Al-Esh’s crown was cast in gold,
• Before the Empire was born,
• The covenant was sworn in flesh,
• In blood and breath and bone.

• From enslaved and Minotaur, from sky and soil,
• One bloodline was forged to stand,
• And law was bound to mortal hands
• By a covenant that would last.

• They called us beasts, erased our names,
• Broke our statues, burned our scrolls,
• But they could not remove
• The covenant from our souls.

• The covenant remains.

• The Emperor’s crown has graced many brows,
• A Minotaur first to take the vows.
• Alessia’s blood still walks on Nirn;
• It sits the Ruby Throne, and we shall return.

• We shall return.

• We stood in a court of living stone,
• Where the Empire’s banners swayed.
• Like Man and Mer, we were mortal blood and bone,
• With duties shared as we served the throne.

• Then they removed our wings and hunted us down,
• Destroyed our homes, drove us from the towns,
• But they could not cut from history
• The covenant in our souls.

• We sing low the names they dared not keep,
• The ones erased by lies and fear.
• They raised crowns on borrowed strength,
• Then cast their builders clear.

• We hid, but never bowed in shame,
• We sought no vengeance, laid no blame,
• For Man would learn the blood of Alessia
• Was never theirs alone.

• They called us beasts, erased our names,
• Broke our statues, burned our scrolls,
• But they could not remove
• The covenant from our souls.

• From our souls.

• The Emperor’s crown has graced many brows,
• A Minotaur first to take the vows.
• Alessia’s blood still walks on Nirn;
• It sits the Ruby Throne, and we shall return.

• We shall return.

• When the Dragonfires fell silent,
• And the Red Diamond was gone,
• They thought Alessia’s lineage ended,
• Her ancient bloodline gone.

• But the covenant was never broken,
• Nor did the Septim bloodline end.
• Through all the years that followed,
• We knew our time would come again.

• Our time would come again.

• For Alessia’s blood still walks the world,
• And at last her truth is heard:
• Upon the Ruby Throne sits our half-brother,
• And he has given us his word.

• No pardon sought, no mercy begged,
• No vengeance for the wrongs endured.
• We return as Alessia’s children,
• And our place beside Man and Mer restored.

• They called us beasts, erased our names,
• Broke our statues, burned our scrolls,
• But they could not remove
• The covenant from our souls.

• The Emperor’s crown has graced many brows,
• A Minotaur first to take the vows.
• Now Alessia’s blood sits the Ruby Throne,
• And her forgotten children are coming home.

• Coming home.

• Our Celestial Mother’s dream
• Is renewed.

• The blood remembers.

• We return.