| Species | Kua Fu |
| Order | Giant |
| Classification | Humanoid |
| Family | Large Giant |
| Sphere | Wealth |
| Origin | Wateni made them from fools overestimated themselves |
| Lifespan | 70-100 years |
| Habitat | Riverlands |
| Food | Large amounts of human fare and lots of water. |
| Description | Kua fus stand 15' tall. They tend to appear Dabusenese. |
| Procreation | Follows the mother with other giants. With other humanoids or pseudohumans, mixed nations people are possible if size permits. |
| Esoterica | Kua fus are beings of mijjit and mashoaab, a potent combination. They wield all shebvic energies, all ordinal energies, and solar, lunar, currents, and earthpower aether commonly. Poioumenon, kor, yahas, and mana are also common. |
| Body | Because mashoaab is accumulative, it combines with the mijjit within them to make them very adaptable. They have supernatural size, strength, agility, constitution, and regenerative properties. They can contain a great deal of food and drink without being harmed. They heal slightly faster when they are full, so they eat copiously when they are injured or sick. They practice an art called chi, which combines a special diet and exercise. They eat special foods called hupo se, a mixture of fish, rice, grains, and special spices, and they chase the sun from horizon to horizon each day. Doing this allows them to alter their bodies. Common alterations include wooden skin on the legs or arms, massive bellies, or hair of fire. |
| Farming | Kua fus farm the riverlands, building rice paddies, cattle/oxen pastures, and fields of sweet potatoes, peanuts, wheat, tea, sugar, and cotton. They keep pigs and chickens as well. Their most famous crops are their colorful peach orchards, however, which are world famous for flavor, size, and sweetness. They inherently know how to care for these crops and livestock. They are also known for their brightly colored rice, sweet potatoes and pigs, and for their variety of flavors of black tea. |
| Special Powers | Kua fus have supernatural size, strength, agility, constitution, and regenerative properties. They can eat and drink huge quantities at once, and they practice chi to alter their bodies. They also innately know how to tend their crops and livestock. Beyond these aforementioned powers, they also have the ability to acquire new powers by gathering rare objects of power around them. |
| Weaknesses | Kua fus yearn for things that are out of their reach or beyond their abilities to acquire, and this often leads them to fail or even die trying. |
| Culture | Kua fu-shi are the clans of the kua fus. Every kua fu-shi is ruled by a feudal lord and their court. Peasants serve the feudal lords with tribute from their lands. Every peasant family is part of a kua fu-shi, and the collective kua fu-shi are a feudal nation ruled by an overlord. Theirs is a patriarchal society, though women and non-binary kua fus have more rights than in many other feudal societies. Kua fu warriors train to fight with special wooden clubs made from their peach orchards. When they die, their clubs are buried in their orchards. Kua fu warriors are part of the lords' courts. Kua fu children are weaned by the age of five. They are taught by their families how to work the farm or work a craft in the village. If they are of a lord's family, they are taught the arts and sciences, court etiquette, diplomacy, and fighting. If they are of a warrior's family, they are trained as warriors. Courtship is based on rank. Nobles have arranged marriages. Warriors have arranged marriages and commonly have multiple wives. Lords are monogamous to avoid problems with succession. Peasant families court with ritual gifts, eating together, and dating, but marriage is forbidden without permission of their lord. Many peasants choose not to get married, even though this means complications when it comes to inheritance, because their lords are so strict about marriages. Kua fus reach adulthood with their fifth and final growth spurt around the age of 19 or so. If their final growth spurt is delayed, they engage in river-drinking until they have one. The kua fu-shi recognize nine festivals every year, all of them solar festivals, based on the length of the days and the distance of the sun. Gold coins are given out at every festival, and each festival has a unique set of coins. Festivals involve brightly colored lanterns, costumes, parades, and feasts, held by the lord for his people. The festivals are differentiated by the ritual costumes worn and the themes of the parades, though they vary from clan to clan. Every kua fu celebrates nine feasts in their life as well: birth feast, weaning feast, graduation feast, adulthood feast, (first) marriage feast (or peasant secret non-marriage equivalent), parenthood feast, grandparenthood feast, retirement feast, and death feast (a wake held for the deceased). Kua fu farms are large, even the peasant farms, and they are all interconnected. At the center of each cluster of farms is a village where craftsmen, merchants, and poor warriors live. The largest farm surrounds the palace of the lord, who has a special complex where the rich warriors live. Every village is also home to a temple to the ancestors. |
| Notables | |
| Sample statistics | PRO 8 ATH 10 STR 23 AWA 8 WIL 8 ROG 8 Farming 11 Special Powers [See Above] |
Topic revision: 11 Feb 2020, SallyJaneBlack
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