[Creature Lore] Cyclopes

[Anawkin 247]

"And there I stood, face to face with a behemoth, with only an eye."

-Unknown

What is a Cyclops?

A cyclops is a rather giant, bumbling creature with only an one eye planted in the square middle of their face. They are very hostile beings, and don't even welcome other cyclopes into their domain. They're body is very deformed, much like their face,and is covered in blemishes and warts all around its leathery skin.

Their skin ranges from a pale, fleshy color to a dark green, but is really only a matter of where a cyclops lives; Hotter conditions would mean darker skin, colder would mean lighter skin.Cyclopes  also stand higher than most common trolls by only a few feet, a fraction more if you're counting the horn mounted atop their heads.

Their hands are burly and rough, with claws extending down from their four fingers, reaching over 6 inches at most.

 

They live long lives, up to nearly 500 years naturally but are often times slayed before-hand, due to their peskiness.

 

Unlike trolls, Cyclops are active and awake in day times, having lost the Old curse many millenniums ago. They hunt and scavenge for most likely whatever living thing they can find, presumably whatever race they settle near. But sense their largeness has given them a disadvantage of being terribly slow, they usually rely on ambushes to get their bellies fed.

 

Behavior

As stated before, Cyclopes aren't the most welcoming group around. They're prone to attacking anything inside what they believe to be their 'lands' and often times eat whatever they might catch. They hardly ever come in contact with other Cyclops, both because of rarity and because of their possessive nature. Cyclops hardly ever mate because of this and new cyclops are very rare, one being born around every 200 years or so.

 

Cyclopes are carnivores and as being such eat only meat, which comes from a variety of sources; sheep, cows, pigs and usually people. A hungry cyclops is not one to cross, their usual docile nature swells to be even larger, wrecking and hitting anything in sight.

 

A cyclops is a very dumb creature compared to any of the four races, and can only speak in choppy sentences and grunts, for example;

*The cyclops is approached by a wandering human, looking up to it, the human trembles, weakly giving a*

"Hello.."

*The Cyclops snorts, its eye flicks downwards looking at the human*

"Hee-lu, snook." (Hello, snack)

Not only is a cyclops' speech rather dim, their thinking and actions are too, they'll often make brutish choices and don't think about them twice. So as if a tree presented itself an obstacle for a normal man, they would walk around it, but being a cyclops, it would try to clobber the tree over.

 

A cyclops often is never seen wearing clothes, mostly because their whole lower half is often covered in fur, but some choose to wear them regardless, but it isn't a common spectacle.

 

Where might I find a cyclops?

Even though the cyclopes are very close relatives to Trolls, you'll never find one living in a cave, unless they absolutely have to. This is because, Cyclops prefer to sleep and hunt in the open sky, so usually they set up messes of wood and stone pens on top of hills. While it leaves them exposed to nature and hunters, their too stubborn to change their ways, having been doing so long before the races came along to their island.

 

Key Points

Strengths;

-Very big

-Strong

-Can survive in the daytime

-Are able to speak(ish)

Weaknesses;

-Limited vision

-Bumbling Bafoons

-Sluggish

-Very dim

 

History

In an uncharted land, their lived a group of four trolls, very ancient trolls, whom looked nothing like the trolls today. Unchallenged in size and strength, these trolls began to spread rapidly, a bit too rapidly. They flourished and thrived for many years, but soon all the meat they had been eating, and all the animals they'd been snacking on, began to diminish. Food became scarce, and slowly the population dwindled down to a mere ten of the hundreds they had before and although these ten were not the brightest trolls, they knew they had to rekindle their numbers somehow.

 

At first, It was only one or two being born with the strange defect, but then it began to take over these trolls. The larger, one-eyed spawn of the trolls began to dominate the numbers, outweighing the regular, original trolls by 3 to 1. They were rougher, dumber and more hostile then the other trolls, often times killing or maiming the smaller trolls in their young age. It became something like evolution for these trolls, and although they only had one-eye, the cyclopes for whatever reason didn't possess the curse that their parents held, giving them more times to hunt and collect for themselves of course.

 

Soon, in a matter of years, the once ancient trolls had been completely taken over by the new, larger cyclopes.

But, as the cyclopes prevailed, their hostile nature proved to make hunting in groups almost impossible. After several gruesome beatings, the cyclopes  began to spread out and away from their brothers, taking home to the vast lands that they lived upon. They no longer hunted in groups like their parents had done before them, they were only left with a lonely and solemn life alone, tackling nature with only one eye to guide them, as it is today.

Playing a Cyclops

It's probally on your mind how can I play these awesome creatures! If they're accepted, please just pm me over the forums, only around 4 cyclopes is what I'd like to see played.

 

OOC Note(s);

[[if you have any suggestions or comments please voice them below.]]

[[That is all!]]

[Cjmate 1252]

Support. No reason not to deny this because et have already been using a creature similar to this for events. I cannot remember if the monster man wrote lore for it or not, I could not find it in our et skin page. But this is the skin we have been using.

 

http://gyazo.com/e2b77d21f04a699e08d72fbdb98454f6

 

Edit: I just realized that this is for players. Idk then. It is strange and difficult to get new races added, and I am not altogether happy with the recent Kha.

[Giga 357]

Eh, sounds interesting. Though as previously stated, there are too many "races" already, though if this was implemented, I have no objection.

[ToenailTickler 290]

If I remember correctly, there is nothing living in the next world?

 

But it's good lore. But again maybe not let have all the players be able to play. I think we should just stick to our current races, and make this sorta like a magical creature.

 

But +1

[Anawkin 247]

Tis not a race, good chaps. It's creature lore, I will be accepting who can play them and who can't((Et can play them freely)), only going to be around 4 cyclopes at a time. You could say they are a "race" but their really only creatures, much like a Golem.

[Giga 357]

Tis not a race, good chaps. It's creature lore, I will be accepting who can play them and who can't((Et can play them freely)), only going to be around 4 cyclopes at a time. You could say they are a "race" but their really only creatures, much like a Golem.

Ah, well in that case, I wouldn't mind having them implemented. This is like the Lethani in a sense ;)

[froyoslomo 6]

Cool. Pretty interesting, but seems a little too much like trolls, since the only difference really is that this cyclops is bigger, and can walk in sunlight. I still like it though. Keep it up! 

[Lago 2569]

Effectively solitary trolls?

[Supremacy 3357]

-snip-

[Anawkin 247]

Effectively solitary trolls?

In a sense, I don't believe I did a good bit explaining that though. Other than there height, looks and other attributes, yes.

@Froyoslomo

they're close relatives to trolls, so they're like them to an extent.

[Eddywilson2 2116]

Sounds very fun +1

[Cooonie 55]

+1

I don't see why not.

[Ibn Khaldun 7729]

And the other cyclopes inquired, who is it that is molesting you o' Polyphemus?

 

"No man is molesting me!"

 

I wouldnt mind seeing Cyclopes in LotC

[Raxxtus 24]

I like the idea. The lore doesn't miss anything that I can think of, and they seems like balanced beasts.

 

I'd enjoy running into one in the future.

 

+1

[Frigated 66]

+1 Oi lioike!