Fomorians are a race of twisted giant-kin native to the First World of the fey. Once, the fomorians were titans gifted with great beauty and magical prowess, but they were cursed by the Eldest, the godlike rulers of the fey, for attempting to rise up and steal their power. Now the hideous, twisted fomorians wallow in their misery and plot to regain their lost glory.
Fomorians are massive humanoids that stand between 20 and 30 feet in height. No two fomorians look alike, possessing deformities such as limbs of different lengths, hides covered in warts and tumors, bone spurs erupting from their joints, or misplaced facial features, though all fomorians have purple skin and one eye much larger than the other, with a slit pupil. This “evil eye” is a focus for their last vestiges of arcane power, with which they can spread their curse to other creatures. Fomorians dress in only the finest clothing and armor.
On the Material Plane, fomorians live as solitary brutes much like other evil giants, but they flourish on the First World. Wishing to relive their past, fomorians surround themselves with beauty completely at odds with their horrifying visages. On the First World, fomorians inhabit vast subterranean caverns of eerie natural beauty, filled with glowing mushroom forests and otherworldly crystalline spires. The fomorians rule decadent courts of enslaved fey from darkly beautiful fortresses, occasionally sallying forth to make war on the fairy courts above.
Most fomorians have been reduced to a mere shadow of their former glory, but some of the oldest and most potent of their race, the fomorian titans, remain in their original beautiful forms. These titans of myth were too powerful for the Eldest to destroy, so they locked them away in prisons across the planes. Should the fomorians ever release their ancient masters from bondage, it would spell doom for the world of the fey.
Fomorians have been recorded in Vedzeva, where they fought on the side of the Western Queen against the Five-Scale Alliance. This has led scholars to believe that the Western Queen may have been a fomorian titan, but this has never been confirmed. They are quite rare in the modern day, only occasionally making their way to Vedzeva to make mayhem in revenge for their ancient defeat.
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