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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 202120" data-attributes="member: 1328">Just reading along...I've seen several time "formorian" or "fomorian". Please. It's formian, F-O-R-M-I-A-N (as in formica, ant).Formorian are something completely different. According to celt myths, they were misshapen evil giants led by Balor of the Evil Eye, whose gaze could kill someone instantly. They were vanquished and driven out of Eire by the Tuatha de Danaan, a large group of powerful heroes.To give more on-topic insight, axiomatic giant vermin (ants and wasps) is a good idea. Axiomatic ankheg would be fun. Enslaved Thri-Kreen or axiomatic ones would also be quite tough.If you have the MotP, you could also give them some inevitable. If you download the appropriate MotP web-enhancement, you could maybe give the formians a squad of Modrons helping them for whatever reason they can have (the Modrons' schemes are hard to predict).Xill mercenary, and devil "advisors" could be interesting as well, indeed.It's probably better to avoid using all ideas at the same time; the resulting faction would be too chaotic for the formian's taste. I know they use slaves; but as I see the formians, I see them using only slaves from a limited set of variety in each colony. This way, they reduce the number of particularities in a colony, and of special quarters for slaves.If you have halfling slaves, you can make small quarters for them, with a low ceiling and little beds. If you get an ogre slave; there's no way you can make him enter the slave quarter. Inversely, it would be a waste of space to build slave quarters that can accept any kind of slaves; most of time the roof will be too high and you could have put additional floors instead of that big empty room that furthermore needs to much calories to be heated properly. Similarly, you can't have frost giant and salamander slaves in the same quarter.Another reason is that sometimes racial hatred are so strong that mind-control fails for a short time; and you have the orc slave who begin to slash through elf slaves and kill them until the taskmaster reaffermish control. When they capture slaves of inappropriate type, they would exchange them with another colony. Maybe you could have the players see such an exchange from a distance.</blockquote>

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