Colossus are giants and ancient beings who awoke and walked through Eredwyn millennia ago. Each one has bodies of different shapes and materials. But what they all had in common was the ability to increase the space between the Planes, making it even more difficult for interplanar beings, especially gods, to influence the Mortal Plane in Eredwyn.
All the Colossus were slaughtered by Gilasus, The First Hero, around 2,500 Before Otes, after him recieve the 100 Blessings of the Gods on the top of Mount Olis, the tallest mountain in the world.
The Archipelago Colossus Gorpuren
Easily the largest of the Colossus, Gorpuren was a sea monster resembling a continent-sized turtle that lived south of Eredwyn. When it was slain by Gilasus, its body was torn apart. Over time, sediment and plants began to collect on the dead, floating parts of its body. Each piece of the shattered Colossus became an entire island teeming with life and color that became the Gorpuren Archipelago south of the continent of Eredwyn.
The archipelago has become a veritable paradise of life and color, full of exotic animals and a tropical appearance, and is currently occupied and protected by the Gilasi.
The Glass Colossus Gortep
Gortep had the appearance of a thin, skeletal colossus made entirely of purely transparent glass. He was slaughtered by Gilasus in the desert of Kereth. Having his body continually hidden by the desert sands
Gortep Glass
The Gortep Glass is simply pieces of the body of the Colossus Gortep himself. Possessing an enormous lightness and resistance superior to metal, this glass is a highly valuable material in the world, mainly due to its rarity, its quantity being limited to the size of Gortep. The fact that the Colossus is buried in the sand makes it challenging to excavate and extract.
The very glass-based culture of the Kenastrins has made them long for this rare and valuable glass, and its possession is a sign of great prestige and pride. At present, all Gortep Glass that is extracted and not used is kept in a safe and guarded. The Kenastrins are the only ones who have access to the sites occupied by the Colossu’s corpse, but it has been decreed that all Gortep Glass should be sent directly to the possession of the One Pharaoh Kenast, and that this valuable glass can only be used in projects authorized by the One Pharaoh. This glass became synonymous with proximity to the Pharaoh himself in Pharagort culture.
The Precious Colossus Luziges
Luziges was a humanoid giant with a body made entirely of pure gold and with precious stones studded all over his titanic body.
Luziges Plants
When he was killed by Gilasus in the region of Angoria, Luziges’ blood flowed over a considerable part of the region, altering the local vegetation. The affected plants became plants made of pure gold that bore fruit made of gems such as rubies, sapphires and emeralds. These plants began to reproduce much more slowly than before, but became desired by anyone who knew of their existence. Seedlings of these plants are used by nobles as real prizes and valuable gifts. With the takeover of the Angoria region by the Kenastrins, many of these plants were brought to the Kereth desert. In addition to these two regions, Luziges plants are also found in large numbers only in the Gorpuren archipelago, having been brought there by Gilasus and his people when they pilgrimaged from Angoria to the archipelago.
The Time Distortion Colossus Taimus
Taimus is easily the most unique of the Colossus. Having the appearance of countless voices, visions, and temporal winds forming a large, flat, paper-like eye. But out of all of them, he was the easiest to defeat. With just a bolt of lightning from the heavens of Crodilian, the temporal Colossus was absorbed by the lightning, paralyzing him in time.
Taimus Lightning
To this day, the lightning that struck Taimus is still standing, coming directly from the sky to just a few centimeters from the ground. Many people have touched the lightning over the millennia, and all of them have had different reactions. Some had momentary visions of the future and the past, and some even maintained this moment of clairvoyance for longer, becoming true oracles. Others were electrocuted alive, and some even exploded the moment they touched the lightning. A rare few even gained powers.
The Stone Serpent Colossus Sternia
Appearing like a mile-long rock serpent, Sternia was slain by Gilasus in northeastern Eredwyn. The tip of its tail remained on the eastern coast of the continent and its head remained at the beginning of the mountains southwest of Desoria. Its body and name then formed the legendary Sternia, the Serpentine Wall of Desoria, virtually isolating the region from the rest of the continent.
The Cobalt Colossus Kovita
Kovita had the appearance of a black body, pierced by its own bluish bones; in the Otesian Era, only its spiny skeleton remained, leaning against the eastern mountains of Joturn. Because of its skeleton, it was given the name Cobalt Colossus. In time, Cobuta, a city built on the slopes of the mountains and around the corpse of the colossus, was built. The residents began to extract cobalt bones and began to test and learn about the material.
Kovita Colbalt
The people of Cobuta began to use the cobalt from the colossus’ skeleton to make weapons, but its main use was medicinal. The cobalt was crushed into powder and then inhaled. The powder greatly increased the life and health of whoever used it, but it took its toll on the person’s sanity. It wasn’t long before the people of Cobuta went mad, resulting in a massacre among themselves. Only one person remained sane and alive, the one who would become the legendary hero trainer of Joturn, Eratza of Cobuta. She created a power that ravaged the lands around the city with a poisonous blizzard, which could only be passed by a tiny number of people, preventing entire armies from heading to the city in search of the Colossus. Eratza would remain in Cobuta, protecting it from those who wanted to use the cobalt. She would not let what happened to Cobuta happen again. Even so, some people would appear to challenge her, and they would all lose. As long as she remained in Cobuta, the blizzard would never cease, and no army would be able to approach the city of cobalt. However, some who went to Cobuta alone sought to be trained by such a skilled and famous warrior. And Eratza accepted some. At the end of the training, she even produced a weapon for her students made of Kovita’s Cobalt.
Eratza is human and has protected the city for at least 1,000 years. She uses cobalt powder only to keep herself alive, in a healthy way, and never became addicted.