Titan Kin

## Population

> *One of the **foreign races**.*
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Clanging metal, rushing fire, hissing water, four friendly waves. The Titan Kin are an ancient race of spirits said to be descendants from the primordial entities that created **Anfang** in **Hellenic League** mythology. They take the form of extremely tall female women who appear entirely human aside from possessing very sharp teeth and four arms instead of two and often work as blacksmiths or other hands-on craftsmen.

## Legend

Going back more than three thousand years, the Epic of the heroic Protahlites included a mention of his pursuit of a Titan Kin, seeking out her ability to craft a magical sword for his journey. After three visits and three successfully completed tasks of increasing difficulty, she eventually relented and handed over the sword she had been making for him since before he first paid her a visit. Protahlites later went on to bisect the enormous immortal snake demon threatening the island-states that now make up the Hellenic League, putting an end to its reign of terror for the time being.

Other stories speak of dethroned kings or dispossessed patriarchs paying visits to lonely mountain smithies or abandoned underground civilizations to seek out a Titan Kin to craft them a weapon to right their wrongs. Some of these stories end in tragedy, others success, but in every single one the forged items that the Titan Kin provide are beyond reproach and without flaw. It is always the wielder or wearer that fails first, not the item itself.

## Description

Titan Kin appear as human women who stand 7' to 8' feet tall, with an average of about 7'6", and they possess four arms instead of two. There is much in the way of variation to their skin color, with some appearing olive-skinned, and others (especially from mountain regions or underground sanctuaries) being quite pale. They have a range of brown hair colors, from reddish-brown to nearly black, and their eyes vary from red to yellow-orange to brown as well.

## Characteristics

### Capabilities

Titan Kin are the undefeated champions in terms of blacksmithing. They are masters of the forge, artists of the anvil, sculptors with a hammer. Capable of wielding twice the tools of a human and with a resistance (but not immunity) to heat, they make the perfect artisans of metal goods, and most pursue tempering techniques and alloy recipes in the same way that a **Dark Cat** might chase arcane secrets. The tools, weapons, and armor that they create are unparalleled among all others, often imbued with **Essence** so as to exhibit magical effects too.

A little-discussed but very important benefit of possessing four arms and being so tall and building up strength via blacksmithing, is that Titan Kin are very dangerous foes to take on in hand-to-hand combat. Even unarmed, they are a dangerous foe, but with weapons they are capable of defending and attacking simultaneously, making them a nearly insurmountable opponent from up close.

### Weaknesses

Naturally, being such a large, strong, and skilled race has not had the most humbling of effect upon the psyche of the Titan Kin. Shorter only than the **Daughters of the Dragon**, the Titan Kin quite literally look down upon humans, and think them short-lived, impulsive creatures with only a crude grasp of quality workmanship. This naturally varies from individual to individual, but the underlying (and possibly unintentional) condescending demeanor of the Titan Kin is a common takeaway for humans who have interacted with them.

Whereas Titan Kin see humans as rushing and hurried in their arts, it is very easy for a human to categorize Titan Kin as slow, methodical, and even obsessive in their craft. They seem to take an inordinately long amount of time to create a perfect work of art each time, often scrapping or restarting projects until they are satisfied with imperceptibly small details. Only through repeated, stressed importance of deadlines can a Titan Kin be urged to finish anything in a remotely reasonable time scale. This no doubt contributes to their perception of the other races as impatient, however...