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| Species | Ysbadadden |
| Order | Giant |
| Classification | Humanoid |
| Family | Massive Giant |
| Sphere | Contradiction |
| Origin | Unknown |
| Lifespan | 70-100 years |
| Habitat | Temperate to subarctic hills and mountains |
| Food | Large amounts of human fare. |
| Description | Ysbadaddens stand 20' tall. They usually have no hair or skin. Some ysbadaddens, mostly women, are supernaturally beautiful. |
| Procreation | Follows the mother with other giants. With other humanoids or pseudohumans, mixed nations people are possible if size permits. |
| Esoterica | Ysbadaddens are beings of paradox and mijjit. They can use any energy there is and often do. |
| Body | Ysbaddadens are beings whose bodies have impossible possibilities. Mijjit and paradox blend to make them supernaturally large, strong, and agile. They are resistant to many diseases, though the common cold will kill them. They practice the art of bwyta, which is a combination of diet and exercise, that allows them to alter their bodies. Though they are born with flesh, skin, and hair, they commonly remove these through bwyta. In order to alter their bodies, they must eat a mixture of cow dung and beef, drink three poisons a day, lift 800 lbs nine times per day, and run 400 miles a week. Commonly, they choose to remove their hair and skin if they are leaders. Others choose supernatural beauty. |
| Farming | The crops and livestock of ysbadaddens are large versions of wheat, barley, rapeseed, and potatoes, sheep, goats, and cattle. They are known for their improbably anatomied plants and animals. It does not matter what their crops need; ysbadaddens work the land, and it improbably alters to their will. They create fields and farms of impossible qualities--rooms bigger on the inside than the outside, impossible weather, water flowing uphill, paths that go places that couldn't, etc. They often have castles at the heart of their farms that are nearly impossible to reach |
| Special Powers | Along with the aforementioned powers of size, bodily alteration, strength, disease resistance, agility, and impossible farming and landscaping, ysbadaddens have the power to fashion poisons out of their own blood and spit (though it is not poisonous unless they cause it to be). They gain power from acts of violence against those that support them, making them volatile and dangerous. |
| Weaknesses | The Law can harm them. |
| Culture | Ysbadaddens live in a violent, tyrannical feudal society. Their leaders, bencawrs, are the largest, most ruthless among them. Often, in their families, there will be one ysbadadden who is not violent, who becomes the scapegoat for the rest of the family, called a bwch dihangol. Ysbadadden children are raised by the bwch dihangol. When they come to the attention of the bencawr, they are taken into service to work the fields, serve in the castle, or perform other menial labors. If they survive to 15 or 16, they usually hit their last growth spurt. At this time, they are pressed either into military or sexual service, unless they are a bwch dihangol. Bwch dihangols are released to work in the community. After five years in the military or sexual service, ysbadaddens are given the chance to earn their freedom and choose their own path. How well they do in these trials determines their role in the community. The best become bencawrs, the worst become slaves. All feasts and festivals in an ysbadadden community revolve around the bencawr, and they vary from community to community. Powerful ysbadaddens do not court but simply take a partner. Bwch dihangol have complex, beautiful courting rituals involving gifts, singing, special trips, and specific kinds of poetry. |
| Notables | |
| Sample statistics | PRO 8 ATH 10 STR 28 AWA 8 WIL 8 ROG 8 Farming 11 Special Powers [See Above] |
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