Giant

This native species of Laoch Saol has very unique biology, unfamiliar to any other species on grimur, Giants are terravore's, this means that they consume, alongside other more normal foodstuffs, pulverized stone and metal.

## Appearance

While it is not their only distinctive trait the most obvious is that they range from 4 to 6 meters at full height but this isn't the only unique thing about their proportions. Giants tend towards different proportions than other races (though not always), it is common to have longer arms but shorter legs, larger noses and wider, shorter feet, all this combined occasionally making them look more ape-like than human-like.

Giant skin colours vary as much as humans but due to living in the north and often underground this is shifted towards pale, sometimes resulting in a unique form of albinism that gives them slightly or completely transparent skin, making them appear pale red, sky blue, lapis blue or crimson depending on the colour of their blood. The eyes of this race possess similar variety of colour as humans, but additionally can be red, black or a reflective steel gray. The final detail listed here, giants can have red, brown, blonde, white and black hair but this often comes with a metallic sheen and thicker, both having more strands but the strands themselves having a thickness comparable to metal wire.

## Giant Folklore

See the story of Blood Queen Yaka as an example of Giant Culture.

## Inner Biology

Giants Have extremely strange internal biology untraceable to any other known species.

Starting with their digestive system they have a complicated series of stomachs which allow them to digest pulverised ore or pure metal, this is used in multiple parts of their body detailed ahead.

Their skeletal system has an iron alloy infused into it making it stronger and can be melted down into steel. Most of their bones are thicker and denser with a triangular lattice and do not contain marrow.

The final detail is their blood, certain ancestries of giants have lapis blue blood. While there is no known source of their blood as they have no marrow, a few unique traits have been noted about the blue variety. Those who possess this blood are immune to hypothermia up to temperatures of -10 celsius and have an increased ability to hold their breath but can be affected by heat stroke far more easily.

## Aging

A giant tends to reach maturity around the age of 27-32. Comparatively to the maturing rate of humans, giants tend to mature much slower before this age, but then rapidly mature after this.

A giant child (ages 0 - 15) is almost identical in maturity to a child that age from the human race, however after this age a disparity begins, a giant teenager (ages 15-25) shares a maturity level with that of a 16-18 year old human, and a human young adult (18-25) shares a maturity level with a giant young adult (25-35). However after this the giants begin to mature very quickly, a 40 year old giant is as mature and as wise as a 45 year old human, then a 50 year old giant is as wise if not wiser than a 60 year old human.

Giants also tend to live about 3 times longer than humans, meaning that by the age of 250 a giant seems to have seen everything the world has to offer and more, thus becoming great sources of wisdom.