Titans

Titans are gigantic, genetically-engineered monsters originally created by the Ga'n to battle against the arrival of the Aesurians on Earth during the later Bronze Age of Humanity. Each time the Aesurians, who would later pose as various human gods and goddesses of old, would win time and time again. It is thought that the titans were long-since wiped out, but many smaller titans actually survived until relatively recently.

### **History**

In the very early days of Humanity's hunter-gatherer tribes, the shapeshifting, reptilian Ga'n, whose ancestors were originally from Earth and who had fought a war with the Danu, came back to the planet after millennia aiding the Zeltura build their enormous empire in the Milky Way. A small group of the Ga'n's descendants had re-settled on Earth in secret, masquerading as Humans as a new age of metal was upon them.

Annoyed that these strange entities known as 'Aesurians' had usurped their original plan on ruling Earth and subjugating the Humans before them, the Ga'n began using their advanced alchemical and genetic technology to create monsters and creatures from local fauna known as Titans, this including combining much genetic material with a Human base, resulting in many myths and legends of gods and monsters in Human mythology; but each time the Aesurians would win.

The Titans were let-loose in Earth's natural environment and all possessed a unique ability that allowed them to detect the high-energy "scent" of the Aesurian Gods' tremendous power, and would be sent into a furious rage when one was nearby. The Ga'n also discovered that the Titans did a job of keeping the rapidly-reproducing Humans in-check by consuming them, and over the millennia Titans came to be known under other names such as Hydra, Dragons, Trolls, Ettin and Cyclops etc.

Assuming these Titans were native to Earth but questioning why their enormous size and appetite had not yet devoured all creatures on the planet yet, the Aesurians wanted to find an origin for these creatures. Some even believed they acted as Earth's natural defence to the Aesurian's presence, though many of the gods could sense they were somehow unnatural to their environment, the Aesurians would wipe out nearly all of the Titans and only in the later years were the Ga'n discovered to exist and the ones behind the Titian's creation, with many Humans referring to the Ga'n as demons. Although it was suspected that some survived into the modern age, there has been no direct proof.

### **Appearance and Physiology**

Each titan varied greatly from animal-like to humanoid, being engineered from certain species, including Humans themselves, many appeared as bigger, mutated versions of their stock species such as giant squid, birds, snakes bats or insects, often as chimeral forms. Some even appeared to be created from plant material or appear as animate stone, now known to be actually engineered from heavily shelled creatures such as turtles or pangolins. Some of the creatures the Ga'n engineered the Titans from no longer exist.

Some titans reportedly displayed abilities such as breathing fire or ice, creating energy such as sonic roars or releasing electrical fields or pulses. All were incredibly strong and durable able to withstand insane amounts of punishment from a fighting god or goddess and many showed no or extremely slowed aging processes and high regenerative capabilities. There were others that displayed the ability to shapeshift.

It may have been possible for two titans to breed, or smaller ones mate with normal animals, although such evidence was never documented.

### **Intelligence**

While not created to be any smarter than an animal, they were designed to follow the orders of the Ga'n, although in later years some seemed to develop the ability to understand speech, or even themselves speak or at least mimic speech to replay the orders of their Ga'n masters. A consensus on how intelligent they were, or were capable of becoming was never reached.