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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aspect of BOZ" data-source="post: 2945604" data-attributes="member: 41113">well, i don't want the stomp that badly.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />here is the flavor text i came up with:This giant has a head too small for its body, with a sloping forehead and protruding ears.  Its legs are short, and its hands end in short, stubby fingers that seem to be useless for manipulating objects.  The giant wears heavy, coarse clothing, crudely manufactured.The colossus is a solitary wanderer, traveling from world to world by whatever means available.  Although these dim-witted creatures are not related to the true giants of the known worlds, they are basically humanoid in shape.A colossus has thick, bulbous features, and its hair and eyes can be any color of the spectrum, though black is the most common.  Colossi wear clothing like tunics, breeches, and sandals of various haphazardly arranged styles and colors.  The clothes are tailored with a skill that would seem to be beyond even the most nimble colossus, and are commonly patched very clumsily to repair the inevitable rips and tears.Other sentient races have never reported seeing a colossus suffering from sickness, or die from anything other than injuries.  They also do not seem to age, nor reproduce; the life cycle of a colossus is a complete mystery.  The colossus is mainly an herbivore, though one can eat meat by choice, and eating corpses is a preferred method of intimidating for evil colossi.The average colossus is a solitary wanderer, searching for a lost homeworld called Arhoad.  The greatest of sages have never heard of such a place anywhere else, and the simple colossi are never able to find Arhoad or how they left it.  Some scholars speculate that colossi lived on Arhoad in close-knit clans, probably as the worker or slave class of another race.Colossi can be of good or evil alignment, in roughly even numbers.  The good colossi are quite friendly and helpful to travelers. The evil ones are marauders and killers, destroying property for the sheer joy of it. The only long-term goal of all colossi is to find Arhoad, though they never seem to know how to go about doing it.A colossus is 60 feet tall and weighs 70 tons.A colossus speaks Giant.</blockquote>

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