Nephilim

Nephilim are an enormous race of people descended from giants and blessed with divine strength, size, and durability.

Nephilim are playable using the Orc, Half-Orc and Goliath races.

### Junior Giants

Typically standing at between 8 and 9 feet, nephilim tower over all the other races in Earthgard by a great margin, an advantage they often use in battle and in conversation. All nephilim have grey skin like mountain stone, with shades varying between the same light and dark tones found in natural rock.

A nephilim’s lifespan is comparable to humans; they enter adulthood in their late teens and usually live less than a century.

### Ranked at Birth

Like their ancestors, nephilim follow their own version of the Ordning, ranking their members in the same way true giants do. While they may not all carry the innate magic of their forebearers, nephilim are still distinct from eachother in their appearance. Depending on the type of giant they are descended from, a nephilim will have distinct birthmarks all over their bodies that stand out from their stone grey skin.

 Stone
 Frost
 Cloud
 Storm

Birthmarks of a higher rank are more genetically recessive. For instance, the child of a cloud nephilim and a storm nephilim will have white swirl birthmarks rather than yellow lightning bolts.

### Mountain Made

Nephilim live in the mountaintops and hillsides of Earthgard, usually alongside groups of giants, watching over the lands below. Sharing the giants’ toughness, their bodies are built to be resiliant to the mountain climate as well as the many harmful types of flora and fauna they share a habitat with.

Despite mountains being their preferred domain, nephilim roam all of Earthgard in groups or as individuals, standing out greatly from any and all native races when they do.

### The Chosen People

Nephilim were the first of the nine races created by The One Above. As descendants of the divine giants, they consider themselves “The Chosen People”, and therefore deserving of the privileged position they hold over the realm.

Due to their lineage, nephilim enjoy a fair amount of advantages in Earthgard. The nephilim’s influence spreads far and wide due to the length of time they have been in this realm, as evidenced by the use of Giant as the common language of Earthgard and the fact that nephilim are the single most populous race in the land.

### Blessed Lives

Perhaps the greatest benefit that a nephilim has is the fact that, like true giants, all nephilim are guaranteed entrance into Jotunheim upon death. Due to their certain afterlife fates, nephilim are more likely than most to carry themselves with confidence and pride, and live lives full of adventure and risk.

A nephilim’s attitude tends to be happy, carefree and confident, which tends to cause reactions that lie in two different camps; most are accepting or even encouraging of the atmosphere a nephilim brings, but others find it grating and annoying.

While they are generally accepting of all walks of life, the giants’ history tends to leave nephilim in generally adversarial positions with dragonborns, and dwarves tend to hold a grudge, though not all individuals carry over the attitudes of their forebearers.