Species Name: The Bjorn
Personality: Slow to trust others, but extremely protective of those they come to call friends. Will often risk their lives to protect those few they call as such.
Favorite pastime: a sport called siggvire, where they take as heavy an object as possible and throw it, trying to throw it as far as possible.
Clans: The Bjorn are a very intense race of bear people living by their motto in life, which is "If Life is not hard, you are doing it wrong." They are by far one of the oldest species of Equestria, however they have little care as to this, all they care about is living life as dictated by their Parthenon of gods, The conceptual council. This council governs the four major concepts of reality; Life, Death, Order, and Chaos. They have had a rocky history with the Yaks for as long as history has been recorded, often having land disputes with them, as they both live in the far frozen north. It has been discovered recently that they have four different tribes, each dedicated to a different god, yet they all work together seamlessly.
The Kodak worship Mar, their god of Order. Their religious texts state that "Upon his hammer were the first civilizations forged"
The Sutop worship Krela, their goddess of life, their texts state that "From her warmth did the first plants grow"
The Blurgat worship Narlox, their god of Death. Their texts state that "From his shroud cometh a final, eternal rest."
Lastly, the Krunjow worship Zmata, their god of chaos, their texts state " Upon this tricksters machinations do the wheels of change tread."
They are a highly independent people, quite similar in posture and skeletal structure to the Minotaurs, except replace their bovine features with ursine ones, and make them much more... relaxed, seeing most other races as "Fellow children of Krela."