Unreviewed Mireborn Titans (Condorian Subspecies)

[Don Dubhain]

OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION

• Intent: To codify the Mireborn Titans as a culturally distinct, Force-touched warrior subspecies of humanity from Condoriah's Bodnar region, emphasizing ritualized combat, scarification, and brute resilience in RP.
• Image Credit: Image generated via OpenAI by user prompt; no commercial artist work used. Credit available upon request.
• Canon: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Links: Codex Submission: Condoriah, Factory Submission: Godsblood crystals of Condoriah

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Name: Mireborn Titans (Bodnari)
• Designation: Sentient
• Origins: Condoriah (native to the southern swamps and jungle empire of Bodnar)
• Average Lifespan: 80–120 standard years
• Estimated Population: Planetary (~65 million), almost exclusively found in Bodnar, rarely offworld
• Description: Mireborn Titans are towering humanoids with scar-reinforced dermis and ceremonial blood-etchings. Bred by trial, they are honed through generations of war, pain, and discipline. The Titans serve as enforcers, generals, and force-bound Priests of battle.

PHYSICAL INFORMATION

• Breathes: Type I atmosphere
• Average Height of Adults: 2.6–3.2 meters
• Average Length of Adults: N/A
• Skin color: Earth-tone shades: crimson, bronze, coal-black, slate-gray; skin often masked by ritualized scarification and ash/oil war paint
• Hair color: Deep black, dark brown, or braided silver; worn in cultural braids, warrior topknots, or shorn for mourning
• Distinctions: Mireborn are colossal and physically dense, their muscle structure and bone density far exceeding human norms. All Titans undergo the Rite of Grief-Carving upon adulthood, where Force-reactive Cholerite blades are used to score permanent markings into their skin that eventually harden into semi-armor. Their dermis can resist heat, acid, and kinetic trauma to a degree.
  Though by no means universally applicable amongst the Bodnari, Males typically have broader frames and heavier arms for wielding oversized weapons; females tend toward speed, flexibility, and precision with polearms or twin axes. Aged Mireborn show petrified streaks through their dermal plates.
• Races: Stonebloods (traditionalists, heaviest builds), Flowscar Clan (lighter, more agile), Gulmari (ritual smiths with soot-streaked bodies)
• Force Sensitivity: Standard — Some develop sensitivity; often manifests as heightened perception in combat or battle-rage trance states. Dedicated Force training is rare and ritualized.

Strengths:

• Titanic Strength and Endurance — Mireborn can overpower most humanoid species, endure extreme heat, trauma, or sustained combat without fatigue.
• Scar-Dermis Armor — Their ritualized dermis acts like flexible armor, offering limited resistance to blades, blunt trauma, and elemental conditions.

Weaknesses:

• Low Agility and Stealth — Mireborn are loud, heavy, and poorly suited to stealth or narrow environments like starships and bunkers.
• Spiritual Overload — Their traditions demand ceremonial grieving for every kill; failure to uphold rites can cause mental instability or force-sensitive dissonance.

CULTURE

• Diet: Omnivorous — subsist on jungle beasts, fermented root crops, bloodfruit, and meat charred in ritual pyres. Poisonous to heavy sedatives and certain tranquilizers due to altered metabolism.
• Communication: Deep-toned spoken language (Gorukh), formalized battle chants, drumming, and scar-code — a raised-skin form of story tattoos readable by touch.
• Technology level: Below Galactic Standard, but matching in metallurgy and weapons, selectively applied. Use of powered gauntlets, blood-reactive gear, and Cholerite-forged relics is common.
• Religion/Beliefs: Mireborn follow the Doctrine of Trials, which teaches that pain refines the soul. They honor fallen ancestors as embodied spirits called the Red Wake, and believe that those who die without proving their worth haunt the swamps forever. Blood rituals are sacred, not sadistic. They mythologically claim to trace their lineage back to Krixas, a god of singule combat, berserkers, and destroyer of the craven.
• General behavior: Fiercely communal, the Mireborn value honor, endurance, and martial skill. Children are raised by warrior-clans, trained from age six, and tested through ordeal. Mates are chosen through open combat challenges or feats of strength. Artistic expression is physical: sculpting, tattooing, war-dancing. They prefer solitude during grief, then rejoin the clan with a new carving added. While not nocturnal, many fight and train best in low-light jungle conditions.

HISTORICAL INFORMATION The Mireborn Titans are believed to have emerged in the earliest days following the first Tolling, when the fallout of Rakatan experiments caused rapid physiological mutations in those exposed to raw Cholerite seams and the heat of Bodnar's volcanic jungles. Over time, these altered humans formed tribes that revered struggle, forming a warrior culture bound by pain, honor, and mourning.

Their society crystallized with the discovery of the Hanging Crucible, a lava-fed forge-temple where warriors undergo trials to become fully recognized adults. During the emergence of the Demi-Beasts, Mireborn shock-tribes were the first to breach and reseal a Mausoleum gate, suffering thousands of casualties in the process. From that sacrifice, their modern rites of grief-carving were born.

The Titans played a pivotal role in the Unification War, led by Warlord Pietro Vopiscus, a pinnacle of his kin who would later marry Hisaki Godo and help establish planetary peace. Despite their internal cohesion, Mireborn are still mistrusted by outsiders due to their size, customs, and perceived savagery.

Today, they remain the undisputed martial elite of Condoriah, bound by oath to their clans and to the defense of the planet against both Demibeasts and galactic exploitation.