Gygans
The gygans are a race of ancient cyclops that
were mostly exterminated during the First War.
Gygans are six-armed giants with a single eye. Their civilization of city-states competed
in great gaming competitions with an emphasis on
boxing and wrestling. Sometimes these games could
devolve into outright warfare. With the decline of their
once great civilization, gygans now live together in small
family groups or sometimes alone.
Civilized. Unlike typical cyclopes, gygans echo their
once-great civilization in their current lives. Instead of
a city-state comprised of a single grand metropolis and
the surrounding area, the gygans of today form groups
based around a powerful family. A gygan community
begins with a grand founder family estate that is built up
over time, that attracts solitary gygans and mates from
other family groups. These newcomers construct their
own homes nearby, creating patches of relatively secure
farmland between estates. Gygans within these family
groups cooperate to produce food, wine, clothing, art,
and entertainment. These self-sustaining communities
rarely interact with non-gygans. Consequently, each
insular family group develops a distinct culture that may
be lost completely if disaster strikes the community.
Some gygan family groups have become so isolated that
their members speak dialects not intelligible to other
speakers of giant or common, including other gygans in
the same area.
Superb Athletes. The six arms of a gygan gives it
unparalleled athletic prowess. They combine strength
with agility and are fearsome warriors due to their ability to use multiple weapons and shields. They can also
grapple opponents with their extra arms in order to pin
them down before finishing them off.
Origin/Ancestry
It is rumored that they are descended from an ancient cyclopean race that was spawned by the gods and thrived millennia ago.
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