The gygans were the favored people of Sydon, six-armed giants with a single eye. Once the greatest civilization in Thylea, the Gygan Empire fell during The First War. The ruins of this empire can be found on countless islands throughout the Cerulean Gulf. The few surviving gygans keep to themselves but take any opportunity for vengeance against the hated settler races.
Gygans are six-armed giants with a single eye. It is rumored that they are descended from an ancient cyclo-pean race that was spawned by the gods and thrived millennia ago. Their civilization of city-states competed in great gaming competitions with an emphasis on boxing and wrestling. Sometimes these games could devolve into outright warfare. With the decline of their once great civilization, gygans now live together in small family groups or sometimes alone.
Civilized. Unlike typical cyclopes, gygans echo their once-great civilization in their current lives. Instead of a city-state comprised of a single grand metropolis and the surrounding area, the gygans of today form groups based around a powerful family. A gygan community begins with a grand founder family estate that is built up over time, that attracts solitary gygans and mates from other family groups. These newcomers construct their own homes nearby, creating patches of relatively secure farmland between estates. Gygans within these family groups cooperate to produce food, wine, clothing, art, and entertainment. These self-sustaining communities rarely interact with non-gygans. Consequently, each insular family group develops a distinct culture that may be lost completely if disaster strikes the community. Some gygan family groups have become so isolated that their members speak dialects not intelligible to other speakers of giant or common, including other gygans in the same area.
Superb Athletes. The six arms of a gygan gives it unparalleled athletic prowess. They combine strength with agility and are fearsome warriors due to their abil-ity to use multiple weapons and shields. They can also grapple opponents with their extra arms in order to pin them down before finishing them off.