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Ogres Ogre sows birth litters of up to eight young, which can walk and
run almost straight away. Maternal instinct only lasts for a matter
Night presses at the edges of the re, sending grasping shadows over of minutes, a er which the young are viewed as potential food for
fern and bracken and up the trunks of ancient pines. e re spits the adults, so these skills are o en put to the test early. Young ogres
and cracks with drops of fat from the spit. With a tremor and crack, spend the rst years of their life as scavengers - little better than
the chorus of the night goes dead. Another tremor, and another, animals - on the peripheries of the mob, much like the dogs that
and another, increasing in severity. A shadow is torn by a splintered trail a marching army feeding on their scraps. Occasional bold or
branch that crashes to the forest oor. e ground stops shaking as quick individuals will dart into the main throng for a few scraps
two pinpricks of light appear atop a lumpy monolith of doughy esh but, on the whole, until they can grow large enough to survive
glowing orange in the relight. A beefy hand, the size of a stewpot, the beatings doled out by the older ogres (and start administering
darts out like a podgy lightning bolt, snatching meat and spit both. some of their own), they keep their distance, existing entirely
Lips smack. A warhorn of a belch trumpets forth. e hand reaches separately, savagely competing with each other to grow and pile on
out for more. is is an ogre. weight as quickly as possible.
Ogres are de ned by their violent cruelty, immense strength, To an ogre, dressing in any more than a simple, stained loin cloth
and monumental stupidity. ey are inordinately proud of all is unusually fancy; additions of whole untreated pelts and bone
these things. trophies are extravagances only for the fashion-conscious. In
Some large bull ogres can reach een feet tall when standing battle, ogres typically rely on their overall size and toughness to
upright (although they seldom do), and tip the scales at 1,500 see them through, but a few see the value of armoring themselves
pounds. Although these extremes are the exception rather than the in scavenged goods (making the incredible leap of intellect that if
rule, ogres do tend to be massive in height and girth. It is believed a man in armor is harder to kill, an ogre in armor might be too).
that ogres rarely live to y, although this is di cult to corroborate Weapons are similarly scavenged, and consist of anything the ogre
given that they have no system of counting, and they continue to can swing which, given their strength, is more or less anything it
grow throughout their lives. Unlike most other humanoids, ogres can t in its hand.
appear to su er no negative e ects from carrying a huge amount of
body fat; up to half of their entire weight in some cases.

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