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<blockquote data-quote="ilgatto" data-source="post: 8908556" data-attributes="member: 86051"><p>So how about this?</p><p></p><p><strong>AMIRASPIAN CYCLOPS</strong></p><p>Amiraspian cyclopes are violent, one-eyed, man-eating <span style="color: red">something</span> that stand nine feet tall and have dull, weathered tan skin with scattered clumps of greenish black, straggly hair. They resemble human men in general shape and have powerful arms, clawed hands, and a large, wide maw crammed with fangs allowing them to inflict horrendous bites. Their face has a single massive eye, eerily human apart from its size and clear sea-green in color.</p><p>Amiraspian cyclopes can be found almost anywhere, including underground complexes, and they habitually dwell in caves.</p><p></p><p><em><strong>Foes of Humankind.</strong></em> Amiraspian cyclopes continually raid villages, paralyzing their inhabitants with their hypnotic stare before slaughtering those that resist and taking the rest back to their cave lair to devour or serve another, more nefarious purpose.</p><p></p><p><em><strong>Males Only.</strong></em> Amiraspian cyclopes are always male, possibly due to genetic deficiencies. They propagate their kind by capturing pregnant human women and waiting until they have given birth before devouring them like the other prisoners they make. Consequently, in any lair there will be from one to six pregnant human women. The children born of these women are handed over to the chieftain, who will then gauge out one of their eyes while praying to some unspeakable deity. In some cases, his prayers are heard and the wound inflicted on the child quickly heals as it is transformed into a new male cyclops, to be raised as one of the group. If this transformation does not occur but the wound still heals, the child is cast out to fend for itself, becoming known as a cyclopean human if it survives <span style="color: green">(or maybe given to other cyclopean humans coz children not very likely to survive in the wilderness)</span>. If nothing happens, the child is simply devoured.</p><p></p><p><em><strong>Man-Eaters.</strong></em> Amiraspian cyclopes eat human flesh, though they prefer the meat of halflings, gnomes, dwarves, and elves. Any such creatures they have not been eaten are kept prisoner in their lair, alive only until the day they are eaten. Any half-orcs encountered during a raid are killed as a matter of course and their corpses left for scavengers, for the cyclopes do not like their flesh.</p><p><span style="color: green">(maybe add this to Foes of Humankind?)</span></p><p></p><p><em><strong><span style="color: red">(Bullying the Weak/Bullying and Lording It Over/Ruling the Weak/Lording It Over the Weak).</span></strong></em> Well-versed in the brutal and violent ways of various humanoids and typically speaking many of their languages, hypnoclopses are frequently found in control of a group of orcs, gnolls, goblins, hobgoblins, and perhaps other, similar humanoids <span style="color: green">(for svarts)?</span>, dominating them because of their ferocity and strength.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Ah, hypnoclopses. Too eager to notice.</p><p></p><p>EDIT SOME MORE: "eerily human apart from its size and clear sea-green in color" > "clear sea-green in color and eerily human apart from its size"?</p><p></p><p>TRIPLE EDIT: "those that resist" > "anyone and anything that resists"?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ilgatto, post: 8908556, member: 86051"] So how about this? [B]AMIRASPIAN CYCLOPS[/B] Amiraspian cyclopes are violent, one-eyed, man-eating [COLOR=red]something[/COLOR] that stand nine feet tall and have dull, weathered tan skin with scattered clumps of greenish black, straggly hair. They resemble human men in general shape and have powerful arms, clawed hands, and a large, wide maw crammed with fangs allowing them to inflict horrendous bites. Their face has a single massive eye, eerily human apart from its size and clear sea-green in color. Amiraspian cyclopes can be found almost anywhere, including underground complexes, and they habitually dwell in caves. [I][B]Foes of Humankind.[/B][/I] Amiraspian cyclopes continually raid villages, paralyzing their inhabitants with their hypnotic stare before slaughtering those that resist and taking the rest back to their cave lair to devour or serve another, more nefarious purpose. [I][B]Males Only.[/B][/I] Amiraspian cyclopes are always male, possibly due to genetic deficiencies. They propagate their kind by capturing pregnant human women and waiting until they have given birth before devouring them like the other prisoners they make. Consequently, in any lair there will be from one to six pregnant human women. The children born of these women are handed over to the chieftain, who will then gauge out one of their eyes while praying to some unspeakable deity. In some cases, his prayers are heard and the wound inflicted on the child quickly heals as it is transformed into a new male cyclops, to be raised as one of the group. If this transformation does not occur but the wound still heals, the child is cast out to fend for itself, becoming known as a cyclopean human if it survives [COLOR=green](or maybe given to other cyclopean humans coz children not very likely to survive in the wilderness)[/COLOR]. If nothing happens, the child is simply devoured. [I][B]Man-Eaters.[/B][/I] Amiraspian cyclopes eat human flesh, though they prefer the meat of halflings, gnomes, dwarves, and elves. Any such creatures they have not been eaten are kept prisoner in their lair, alive only until the day they are eaten. Any half-orcs encountered during a raid are killed as a matter of course and their corpses left for scavengers, for the cyclopes do not like their flesh. [COLOR=green](maybe add this to Foes of Humankind?)[/COLOR] [I][B][COLOR=red](Bullying the Weak/Bullying and Lording It Over/Ruling the Weak/Lording It Over the Weak).[/COLOR][/B][/I] Well-versed in the brutal and violent ways of various humanoids and typically speaking many of their languages, hypnoclopses are frequently found in control of a group of orcs, gnolls, goblins, hobgoblins, and perhaps other, similar humanoids [COLOR=green](for svarts)?[/COLOR], dominating them because of their ferocity and strength. EDIT: Ah, hypnoclopses. Too eager to notice. EDIT SOME MORE: "eerily human apart from its size and clear sea-green in color" > "clear sea-green in color and eerily human apart from its size"? TRIPLE EDIT: "those that resist" > "anyone and anything that resists"? [/QUOTE]
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