Ogre

Ogres are tall muscular humanoids sparsely covered in hair. They were created by the gods during the Age of the Gods to fight the demons.

Ogres do not gather in communities as other intelligent species, but instead a strong male lives with a harem of females. An ogre family violently defends

Currently there are three species of ogre found on Miranda. Each of the ogre species are fully capable of mating with each other; although this rarely happens as each species of ogre rarely intermingle.

The Boeman are the least numerous of the ogre, these remain much as they were created by the gods. They are larger, often standing twelve (12) feet or more, with broader muscles. They are intelligent and capable of speed; although most of their language is little more than phrases and sounds borrowed from their cousins. They live in families dominated by the most powerful male, who keeps a harem of females with whom only he can mate. Female children are kept and bartered to the alpha males of other families. The male children are driven out of the family once weaned from their mother. A strong male will defend his territory from these unattached males, while a weak male invites a challenge to his supremacy.

These ogres are capable of using tools and often model their look upon the other humanoid species around them. However, they are not intelligent enough to fashion any tool beyond basic stone and wood. They can, and will, pick up metal weapons and tools of others and mock using them, but almost never forge one for themselves.

It is doubtful this species will survive into the Age of the Magi.

The most common of the Ogre species is that known simply as Ogres. They are as presented above.

By what process these ogres evolved is unknown, but most scholars assume that magic or infernal power was involved. The kuri appear as normal ogres, and in fact are typically born into a ogre family, until they begin puberty. At this point the latent power in their blood will manifest themselves and they will become a half-ogre half-animal hybrid. The more powerful the Kuri, the more dominate the animal. A kuri that is mostly ogre may manifest a bear's hand, hawk's talons, or a serpent's face. A strong kuri may have the lower-half of a horse as well as their eyes and mane.

When a kuri gains control over their own power they have the capability to assume the full form of their animal nature; although it remains ogre-sized. They may gain mass, but they seem incapable of losing mass to become a smaller animal. So, a mouse kuri could change their body into a house-sized mouse. A kuri can never rid themselves of their animal body and become a normal ogre.