Ogre

Ogres are a large species of giantkin demikith found semi-commonly across the continents, primarily in wooded or mountainous regions, but are less common in the lands of Nuria and Aulonia than other regions of the world. Though often dim-witted and clumsy, they are not near so territorial nor naturally prone to anger and violence towards outsiders as their proginetor or cousin species, and have in fact been noted by many a traveler (and, indeed, by scholars intent on studying the remnants of ogre society) that they are gentle and cautious beings by nature when confronted with smaller races despite outward appearances.
Such caution for smaller beings is naturally not to downplay the capability of an ogre's potential for violence, however, as there are very few beings among the many species of thinking kithfolk and demikith alike who are able to match the potential for destructive force as an angered ogre. Large and powerful enough to uproot trees, clever enough to realize that an uprooted tree may not be the most effective weapons, and with enough dexterity in their hulking forms to shape and manipulate creations off more appropriate size, the method by which earlier eras of man were able to even successfully wage war against these creatures to begin at all when they were more numerous – let alone how they were able to wrest a continent from their grasp – remains an impossible question for historians and archaeologists of the modern age.
Indeed, while the common assumption for the layman regarding giantkin is that they are most closely related to orcs among the proper kith races, they are a species native to Elethria, not Nuria, and appear to share more physically in common with menfolk than the descendants of Nur despite the similarities in tusks and the points of their ears. Archeological studies suggest that ogres, along with the durgesh of the mountains, had likely once been the Elethrian continent's primary inhabitants prior to human migration from Nuria far before the First Age.
However great their numbers may have once been under such circumstances, ogre populations have become an uncommon sight in current times, perhaps due to their apparent preference towards isolated communities seeming to extend even to members of their own species. The majority of their species still reside in Elethria, where some even speak a distant relative of their ancient language called 'Zhkoorwa' (J'qurois, Žgúrô; meaning "The Words," natively) in the dense forests of the west and and the great valleys. Far more frequently, isolated communities of ogres will speak the common tongue of a given land, engaging only rarely with human societies in the form of trade or labor to support the tremendous appetites necessitated by their size.
Attempts by ogres to integrate with wider society are not unheard of, but are considered fairly rare for any number of reasons. Such attempts are most common in isolated villages or farming communities away from trade routes and city walls where an ogre's great bulk may hamper it less in navigating roadways and stone buildings while its strength can lend the aid of five men in matters of labor or defence. Those same benefits make an ogre smart enough to avoid letting the wide swing of its arms crack allies over the head a prospect of great value to a state's standing armies and mercenary companies alike, though it is then where finding an ogre interested in trading pastoral living for constant travel and warfare becomes the primary obstacle.

by young hwan lee