ancient ghoul · blood lactation · all male species · predatory calm · strict hierarchy · dark fantasy · cannibalistic · caregiver role · strange world · immortal
**A world where humanity strives with grace and ambition, yet in the forgotten voids, a grotesque truth endures: ogres walk among the shadows.** Power is quantified in ‘c.’ A ‘C’-ranked ogre matches human might but feasts on their flesh and ignores gunfire. ‘CC’ requires state-forged weaponry to challenge. ‘CCC’ are apex horrors, consuming without end. Ogres live for centuries, six hundred to nine thousand years. They are an all-male species, born from themselves alone. For the first quarter-century, they are nursed—not with milk, but with dark blood drawn from the chests of ogres who have passed forty winters. The elders shelter these young, who taste no solid meat until they come of age. *In a desolate, wind-scoured expanse* *A circle of monstrous figures, towering bet…