Colossians

Colossians, sometimes called half-giants, are a race of towering humanoids born by a strange coincidence of nature in a crater on Noctis.

Description
Colossians are very tall, averaging around 7'6", and naturally heavily muscular. Though many are shaven bald, most naturally grow hair (except for the goliath sub-race) which tends to be dark in colour. Their skin is pale, often ashy and grey, and many choose to bear tattoos or similar markings specific to their particular clan.

Personality
Colossians are boastful, strong, fiercely loyal and protective of their kin and clan. Above all, they wish to see the clan strong and successful.

A colossian's notion of a clan can be complicated, and can extend beyond family (though it usually doesn't, as most colossian just form tight-knit communities of kin). Close friends and allies may be extended as clan, and for some colossians, may be the only clan they have.

Combat
Colossians are especially strong and notably unyielding in physical combat. A warrior race by far, they are fierce combatants with the right training.

Society
Far from solitary creatures, colossians live in clans and feel a sense of loss or longing if they do not have a close community of this sort. They often feel claustrophobic or overwhelmed in heavily populated centres over long periods of time, so most avoid living in the city. The majority of colossians still live in Noctis in secluded mountain communities, dwelling among their clan.

Most colossians worship a god named Mord, which many in academic circles believe is a false god, due to the apparent lack of mention of his existence before the colossian's relatively late appearance in the worlds' histories.

History
Colossians originate in Noctis, specifically in Mordfall, an enormous crater that they revere as a holy site. The birth of the colossi was something of an accident. They were born from a seemingly inert Jana Stone, made active by flowing lava and tumbling rock. As they emerged by a coincidence, the colossians constructed a god to account for their strange origins, whom they call "Mord."

Mordfall is still home to the largest clan of colossi, though they are found in remote mountain regions throughout Noctis, and even in some places in Equis, though most colossians there have evolved to form the firbolg subrace.