The fomorians are the uncontested rulers of the fey underworld, but they are few in number and unable to gather in great armies to enforce their rule. To this end, the fomorians have gathered great legions of loyal followers: the fomor-bound cyclopes.
Thousands of years ago, the cyclopes of Golarion ruled great empires, but wars with rising human kingdoms and internal corruption slowly wore away at the giants’ civilization until they were reduced to bestial savages. Some cyclopes in the northern empire of Koloran saw their culture’s impending doom and made a pact with the fomorians of the First World. Retreating from the Material Plane before the devastatation of Earthfall brought about Koloran’s end, these cyclopes safely waited out the Age of Darkness in the fomorians’ extraplanar redoubts, loyally serving the malformed giants in exchange for survival.
Fomor-bound cyclopes resemble their common kin, but are marked with ashen gray skin, bald scalps, and horned brows. Their single eye has a catlike slit like the “evil eyes” of their fomorian masters, and the fomorians have imbued them with the ability to focus a similar (albeit weaker) form of their warping curse. Fomor-bound cyclopes are always clad in finely-crafted clothing and armor of their own make.
The fomorians rely on their cyclops servants as both armed forces and skilled craftspeople. They send their cyclops minions to the surface to raid and capture fey slaves, as well as defend their strongholds and keep order among their households. The fomor-bound cyclopes have retained the skill at art and craftwork of ancient Koloran, and are the finest smiths, masons, seamstresses, leatherworers, and carpenters of the First World, constructing the fomorians’ eerily beautiful castles and forging their masterwork arms and armor. A cyclops crafter focuses on a single work at a time, pouring her heart and soul into each item until it reaches completion. Fomor-bound cyclopes are not evil by nature and take no pleasure in carrying out their masters’ cruel commands, but the ancient pact binds them to the fomorians’ service, and they follow orders unquestioningly.
Fomor-bound cyclops are found in Vedzeva, where they act alongside their fomorian masters. They maintain their masterful skills of craftsmanship, acting as armorers of fomorian forces, and weapons of cyclops make are prized across Vedzeva.
Shores of Swords 