Hanko

*"Never get into a fight with one, you'll be lucky if they knock you out instead of chucking you over mount fuji."*

**Hanko** ( 盤古, Old Board) also commonly known as Giants are a reclusive race of people native to Fusō and are said to be its only original inhabitants. They like a lot of races are descended from Dove procreating with humans, inheriting their large size and abilities from their "parent deity".

## ***Overview***

Hanko are in reality a kind of human whose genetic bloodline has been altered by the inclusion of Dove's own divine essence, and thus similarly to Morimin are capable of interbreeding with humans although the resulting entity will often possess more obviously the Hanko's genes.

## ***Culture***

Hanko as a culture are admittedly a bit dumb, they are not very technologically capable and tend to rely on brute force to solve all their problems. Often compared to cavemen the Hanko cannot really stop this stereotype because of the unique circumstances of their racial abilities and how it makes it extra hard for them to be intelligent, rational and logical.

As such hanko tend to become raiders, pirates, thugs and other jobs that rely mostly on physical confrontation than thinking, as their large size provides them a benefit in this regard.

## ***Perception & Relationships With Other Races***

The Hanko are feared by most other races due to their large size, bad reputation and often well built physique from their constant fighting. They're also feared for being a bit dumb and thus unpredictable in how they will react, aside from the ever so common hulking out.

## ***Racial Abilities***

### **Gigantification**

Due to beings descended from one of the many breeding attempts with Dove the Hanko possess a bit of divinity in them, and this bit of divinity manifests itself in the Hanko's unique **Kyojin-ka** (巨人化, Gigantification) ability. This ability allows an Hanko to shift the Yin in their mind and spirit into Yang, which causes them to increase in size supernaturally and thus increase their strength and durability, but renders their thoughts simpler, more straightforward, and if enough size is gained, outright dumber.

The large size and overall percieved stupidity and simplicity of the Hanko as a people stems from this ability being activated by default but it is possible for an Hanko to be taught how to deactivate it and become human sized again while regaining their full mental capacity. The inverse is also possible, an Hanko is able to potentially become bigger but they risk being unable to return back if they become too simpleminded.

Hanko that train this ability can often cause this change in size to be nearly instant in both the increase in size and the decrease, making the weakness of the decrease in intelligence reduced by making the act of growing and reverting into a type of muscle memory. What is more common is that an Hanko will simply find an optimal size and brain power level and stick to it for the rest of their lives, since the decrease in brain power tends to leave them happier the Hanko do not tend to see this as a true downside to having increased strength and durability.

## ***Trivia***

* The name for the race is based on the chinese primordial giant god https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangu.